The Sopranos and The Wire were better than that clip.

Graham did a pilot about a talk show host before joining Parenthood. I hope this one gets picked up (though of course I hope most of all that it's good). Parenthood was decent enough but her role was hella lame and really didn't highlight her best charms.

24, unlike Homeland, was pure genre/action fiction. It had more leeway to move towards the extremes. It's ticking clock gimmick and countless silly twists did get redundant and boring after a while. But I still say its fifth and first seasons are some of the best television ever.

Well, when you keep putting main characters in life and death situations yet refuse to kill them off things do start to get annoying. It becomes a tiresome trope real quick. I'm not saying Saul has to die. But if he's not permanently paralyzed or some sh*t along with a permanently disfigured Carrie or some sh*t then I…

I haven't caped up for Homeland since the first half of season two, and I've been mostly indifferent to this season (with a couple of episodes I've genuinely liked). But come on, this was not a B episode. It just wasn't. Even if I was annoyed by the ending as the reviewer this episode had too much tension and too many…

Well, those shows do get criticized for repeating themselves.

Damn, thats what I get for avoiding AV Club for a few months. Missed all the first season fun. But no, to that b+. Cleveland is one of the top fifteen episodes of the show. Hiatus is in the top thirty.

I think the point is that this is an anthology. An anthology is supposed to start fresh each season. While AHS on the other hand repeats the same themes, characterizations and ways of shocking with each new outing.

I'll take it one step further. Glee's pilot was decent, promising but not really special in its own right. Most of the hype/acclaim came from people hoping the show would evolve into something legitimately good. It also helped that at the time there was nothing on TV like it, so many were willing to overlook its bevy…

Expected though.

I only bothered watching the first four episodes of this. I thought Gunn was shockingly bad. Her fidgeting, stiff line delivery and odd appearance kept bothering me.

Wendie Malick was giving one of the more underrated comedic performances on TV. Otherwise, meh. Also, people in Cleveland don't sit around in bars talking about LeBron all day while rocking flannel shirts.

Dollhouse's inclusion is the only one I can't agree with. Wasn't a big fan of the second season either. But at least it was a step up from what came before.

Orphan's Black second season was a bit of a mess. But so was the second season of a lot of shows. It deserves another chance to get it right.

Homeland was never really about terrorism. The first season was as great as it was because it centered on two f-ed up, fascinating characters, stuck in an intriguing cat and mouse game. It was a pretty basic set-up but a mostly expertly executed and affecting thriller. In order for the show to have extended its…

I think the writer was trying to look at things from a young Aaliyah's perspective. After reading the whole article I was able to get that.

This show always feels like it's trying to find itself, always stumbling into one direction of quality-wise and then (sometimes in a single episode) yanked in the opposite way. The Homeland that I hold in a high regard remains from the "Pilot" to "Q&A". The show has been in the abyss since. Not saying that stretch was…

A few creative Emmys (particularly the cinematography), Fiona's theme song, and Ruth Wilson, who despite some inconsistency in her accent is almost single-handedly keeping me watching.

Yep.

His movies are typically built on one particular bond (in the DK flicks it was Wayne and Rachel. In Momento it was whoever the hell Guy Pierce played and his dead wife. In Inception it was Leo and his dead wife). If you don't become invested in that one dynamic then the movie feels particularly cold.