"Bachelorette" knocked the wind out of me the first time I saw it. It's been at the top of my list ever since.

Scuttlebutt was that Fincher was approached by Palm Pictures for a Director's Label release of his videos after the first Jonze/Gondry/Cunningham wave, but he declined to participate.

I'm going to disagree with you, at least where Emma Stone is concerned. I'd point to the example of her first audition scene, where she has to hit that painful emotional beat in her line reading and then hold it for an excruciating 30 seconds while she's being summarily ignored. (Gosling was good, too, and yeah, good…

If I understand correctly, Midnight is the only episode in the history of the show whose alien creature is not given a name.