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Gabriel Chase
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Hey, I'd never realized he was the little kid at the Wild West show. It took me awhile to realize he was Eddie Munster on the failed Munsters reboot.

Speechless has grown into my second favorite family sitcom after The Middle. Great news.

Because losing and/or firing 70% of the cast is a great sign. The whole premise has always been fairy tales through the lens of a massive, dysfunctional extended family. How does that work without these people?

The rat in the tube. So disturbing.

Giant bugs or spiders mess me up, too. Even had to excuse myself from part of The Return of the King. That scene with the acid-web-spewing spiders in The Mist? No thank you.

That was a crazy amount of vomit.

Killer Joe. That scene with the chicken leg. Made me sick to my stomach, then successfully forgot it until I was thinking about this question. Thanks, AV Club.

In some productions of Sweeney Todd they use a shrill steam whistle sound when Sweeney (or someone else) kills somebody. Went and saw a live production where the sheer volume and pitch of that sound made me actually shake in my seat, then throw up in the bathroom after the curtain. Can't explain it. Might have

Much as I love Cormac McCarthy, The Road and Blood Meridian both tested my ability to read scenes of violence and cruelty without wanting to hurl.

Ruby and Bow in the hallway and Pops flat out telling the kids the scary truth were both great scenes but I agree it did feel rushed as a whole. Who has an enormous baby shower for their fifth kid anyway? Rare episode where I would have been fine with no Charlie.

He's actually really disturbing in that movie (and also the most improbably ripped trailer park sociopath in West Texas).

If only Modern Family would learn that Manny's endless one-sided fixations are never, ever interesting. (Although on the more successful side I would submit Weird Ashley's long term crush on Axl Heck on The Middle, which allowed Axl to show a more compassionate side for once.)

It was a solid episode. Can't say I laughed a lot but I did find it pleasant and it moved along nicely. Even if it came from an inability to be alone it was nice to see Cam helping out the rest of the family. We don't get as many "Jay and Mitchell are alike" plots as "Jay and Claire are alike" plots so I didn't

There hasn't been an official announcement that I've seen but it got picked up for a full first season order fairly quickly and the ratings have been fairly steady, so most of the renewal/cancellation predictions have it getting renewed.

Ray liking it when J.J. comes out of surgery because he's drugged up enough then to be a sweet big brother - there's the sort of weird character detail this show nails. Dylan is easily the least developed character at this point (we've basically got super-competitive and athletic all season, though the episode where

I've been watching Imaginary Mary because, well, I don't turn off the TV after the other shows are over and honestly the weirdest thing about it is that they pay almost no attention to the imaginary friend thing. It's basically just a standard single woman meets guy with kids show with a special effect randomly

I still watch it and really enjoyed the first few seasons but the writing has seriously declined and most of the cast looks so bored.

The basic structure of the show - current threat intercut with flashbacks which gradually reveal the back story - only really worked in Seasons 1 and 2, when the curse and the after-effects of the curse meant that the characters were as much in the dark as the audience. Sticking to that (very-Lost-like) structure

Rumple and Belle are possibly the most dysfunctional, emotionally abusive couple on TV - and it disturbs me that the writers have never really seemed to grasp that, almost always insisting that there's still some kind of spark between them.

Such a beautiful man, such a useless character.