Nathan Rabin: "For instance, instead of giving audiences a glimpse into the creation of the next Clerks … the show illustrated how an affable mediocrity comes into existence."

Todd VanDerWerff: "… [The Borgias is] also capable of scenes filled with stark, startling beauty 11…"

Noel Murray: "Crowd-sourcing the fight against evil… it's an idea whose time has come."

Scott Tobias: "Curious to hear if I'm alone in questioning the mess Winona creates for herself …"

Is House already contracted for an eighth season?

It has the best butter logo ever.

Called "Popcorn Butter"?

What a jackass. To the extent the music recording industry HAS a future, Steve Jobs probably saved it. Jobs showed that an online business selling licensed MP3s could be profitable.

Yo La Tengo directed by Hal Hartley.

LCD Soundsystem scripted by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry.

Best Dewey exchange:

Best Dewey exchange:

Best Lines of the Night:

Steven Hyden: "How long does it take to 'get' an album?"

Every season of Buffy has a trough, a series of consecutive episodes that are merely good instead of great. I like "Older and Far Away", especially for some of Tara's character development, but it's also the start (for me) of S6's trough, which continues through the next three episodes, until the finale really gets…

3rd Prize You're Fired: "43% of anything can't possibly taste good. That's science."

Zach Handlen: "One of the sisters attempts to seduce him, I think, which is odd. Does this approach often work with humans?"

It was the eighties. Everything was dirty blonde.

freshoffthebus: "[Jackie's] only 'career' in life seems to have been that of the woman-behind-the-man, and she seemed so defeated in the end."

Steve Heisler: "Wait, why was Sarah actively pushing for this perfect engagement to happen if she knew she was about to go even deeper undercover?"