I kinda love "Paris is Burning". It's not one of the most important episodes or one of the funniest or most dramatic, but almost every scene is sorta perfect in its own way. You may not like how the characters behave, but it's all so perfectly staged/acted. I especially love that moment in the kitchen where Lorelai…

Hopefully in the first episode they'll cast Paul Giamatti as an actor who breaks into Foxx's to steal his Oscar.

Did Friday Night Lights do a musical episode? What about Battlestar Galatica?

Yes, but it's also an episode where Don dominated the screen time, and like every Don-dominated episode since season four it didn't do much for me. This premiere wasn't agreeably light as last year's, which made the ungainly, awkward running time easier to accept. They were going to for tension, and for me it was…

The main problem I've had with Mad Men since season four is that Don's unrelenting existential crisis has become drab. Peggy, Roger, Pete and Joan have become exceptionally more engaging, and Don is as dull as frozen biscuits when he's not having tension or some sort of "deep" conversation with them. There's not much…

It's kinda odd that other shows have to deliver the goods in order to get an applause from critics. All Mad Men has to do is premiere. I understand that the show has earned the benefit of the doubt. But the disconnect between the critics and a great portion of the fans has never been more wide when it's come to this…

Scenarios in which I would pay an inordinate amount of money to watch staged wrestling:

I agree that the first couple of seasons are the best. But I did think that despite its flaws season five was a pretty good season or at least it was better than the inexplicably acclaimed fourth season. Don't know where we're going quality wise from here on out, but this was not a promising start.

I agree about Betty. Not so much that she's being shoe-horned into the series (she remains the mother of Don's two children so they can't just fade her out) but that the writers seem to have no idea what to do with her or who she is any longer. She was for me the most oddly intriguing thing about the first two…

That was definitely the moment that took the scene over the top. But in general, like many scenes in this episode the writers were trying to convey too much at once. I admit that ultimately I was just trying to take a dig at Todd, because that's fashionable now.  

That funeral was pretty dreadful and forced. What is Todd on? I guess it's the defend everything at all cost pill. That's the pill he was taking during Girls this season season and during the latter half of Homeland's season.

Betty's confrontation in the "white hood" reminded me of something from The Blind Side.

All that and a bag of chips.

I’m used to Mad Men’s relatively dull and awkward premieres, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so… lame. The two hour format just doesn't work for this show. It completely scuzzies the pacing. It tried to be everything to every fan. It was too much and not enough all at once. What the hell was up with Betty? I get it,…

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Seasons 2 and 3 are probably Bledel's best seasons. She had some good moments in seasons five and six, but by that point she had become so self-conscious and the cute Rory routine had gotten old. It was apparent she couldn't handle to more adult and moody evolution of the character. The rest of the female ensemble…

"Rory's Dance" really displays all three leading women (Graham, Bishop, Bledel) at their best. Lorelai and Emily had their first adorable, pleasant interactions here. Their tendency to have sweet moments and then swiftly turn them into moments of contention became typical but never got old,and that was mainly due to…

Rome I don't is special. At least there's a few characters on GoT to care somewhat about. Rome had terrible, flat characterization.