No, Joanna Newsom.

I think Orphan Black deserves a lot of credit for its handling of its two major gay characters (even if it's only watched by like, 300,000 viewers). I don't think Felix was ever even directly referenced as being gay until the sixth episode, when the neighbor's husband mentions Alison "hiring a gay bartender," but they…

Hm, according to that video (your link doesn't work, but I searched and found it), no one actually cared or got angry about the episode until the series hit syndication and the religious right got furious about it. Very interesting.

I'm surprised the Maude abortion episode hasn't been covered. I've never seen the episode, but four decades later it remains one of the only show ever cited when discussing abortion being handled head-on on TV, and as far as I know it's the only show where the main character had an abortion. I'd nominate that.

John from Cincinnati is his only show that's been canceled mainly for ratings reasons. Deadwood had budget issues that got out of hand, and Luck had too much controversy to be worth continuing (they were in the middle of filming season 2 when the cancellation happened). Not to mention HBO is less ratings-dependant…

Still, it makes it all the funnier to actual fans of the shows that haven't had their memories messed up by all kinds of drugs.

And that someone wins The Internet for today.

I know what 'trolling' means. But yes, I guess the sentence is in hindsight a little oxymoronic. Buzz Miller's description is probably more what I was getting at.

Just because the plot was silly doesn't mean it was a plot hole, which is what Alex was getting at. And yeah, Gilligan and Co. probably came up with it to buy time during the season (and I was skeptical when it happened), but long-term I definitely think the decision worked out, as the bond that Mike and Jesse began…

"Half Measures" is where Mike suggests that Jesse should be killed. "Problem Dog" is the episode where Jesse goes back to the Narcotics Anonymous meeting and shares his story about putting down a "problem dog" (Gale). But yeah, "Rabid Dog" is almost certainly a reference to Jesse.

Oh, and:

I haven't done a full-blown rewatch of Breaking Bad, just memorable episodes here and there, and I feel like the show has almost always had more respect for Skylar than it gets credit for, mostly because Skylar haters have become so vocal in the last couple years. Frankly, I always really liked Skylar as a character…

And for once the rioting will actually be worthwhile, I think.

D'oh! Yes.

Also, because this needs to eventually be posted…Orphan is the New Black, finally visualized: http://blogs.indiewire.com/…

Yeah, that final scene was probably the best cliffhanger of the whole season (season finale aside, but yeah, spoilers). After Red's final line I was like YES I WANT TO CONTINUE WATCHING.

"Bora Bora Bora" is easily my favorite episode of the series so far. It somehow manages to be the funniest episode of the season, with the Scared Straight plotline and Pennsyltucky's healing bit. The former has all the characters at their A-Game, with Poussey being so excited only to be demoralized by the…

Maybe it's because last semester I wrote a whole paper for school on 19th century minstrelsy, but I was mostly unphased by this episode. It also doesn't surprise me that a majority of black viewers were OK with the show at the time - there have been many reports from the 19th century that minstrel shows like Thomas…

Yeah, I'm surprised none of the writers mentioned the blog post by Ken Levine (a former TV writer involved in every other popular sitcom of the '90s), where he nominates a joke from Amos 'n Andy as his "all-time favorite sitcom joke": http://kenlevine.blogspot.c…

Y'know, Colbert really had the last laugh here too, in a way. Though "Get Lucky" is a much, much better song than "Blurred Lines", the latter is, in terms of sheer popularity, really the actual song of the summer, having been #1 for 9 weeks running, breaking numerous airplay records in the process. Daft Punk peaked at…