Yeah, 'not quite as good as Lauren Graham & Kelly Bishop' still leaves a fair bit of space for her.

A&E is actually really great.

The little snippets of new music there sound incredibly promising…

Well, that song was tiresome.

That's a really good point about Claudette, too:

I thought the point of Naked was that it was the opposite of the previous few albums, on which that had been more true? Their early stuff and Naked were the band working together, the middle stuff was Byrne alone (&/or with Eno)?

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@avclub-230e46d19fe78a6c8dc715659a7188d7:disqus Paul's late-career run has been pretty amazing. He's released some of the best albums of his post-Beatles career, and has actually shown some adventurousness in them. I love the Fireman's Electric Arguments album - & really, everyone, Paul fan or not, should check that…

And let's not forget that by the time Jess came along Dean had already had issues with Tristan. He knew that Tristan had made moves on Rory, and knew that she had kissed him during their brief breakup. I think it was understandable that he'd become so jealous regarding Jess.

A good deal of that, @avclub-83e1fbae2343f8479668ac365eb99c3a:disqus is that Czuchry is incredibly good in that role. As irritating as Logan could be, he always sold it with just the right combination of boyish charm & self-aware humour. Logan always knew he was sort of a prat, I thought, and that helped his…

Debut, in retrospect, really just sounds like throat-clearing before 'Post'. That record is completely brilliant and insane.

People who favour John's solo work & write Paul off forget that John released as much filler in his half-dozen albums as Paul has in four decades of pretty-constant releases. John had some great solo stuff, but even a quick review of his post-Beatles career should be enough to demonstrate that he was massively…

But the majority of this review was about why this failed AS A SHOW, not why Christianity is wrong.

I suspect it's not so much 'hate-watching' as @avclub-f14314bf4d4a1bd450664f089241fe86:disqus suggests, as 'obligation-watching'. If you're in that subculture you do need to constantly do things like partake of shitty entertainment that is allegedly Christian. See also, Mel Gibson's Passion movie. People thought they…

'Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp' is indeed great (especially up there in the northern hemisphere!), but for me the winner is always 'Dial M For Murderousness'.

I thought the first scene of everyone laughing (when the mule doesn't start doing whatever it is one does at a rodeo) was the worst thing ever filmed.

I think the issue boils down to the perception of favouritism. Another student - Paris, for instance - could cause a lot of trouble by suggesting that Rory received favourable treatment because of who her mother is. And if you're Max, how do you disprove that allegation? How do you show you HAVEN'T helped her in some…

Also, wasn't it made obvious at some point (I forget which episode) that anyone who had liked Rory - other than Lane, of course - felt like she thought she was too good for them after she transferred to Chilton? I thought there was a scene at some point in which Rory realised that nobody from Stars Hollow High liked…

Yeah. I don't mind Max, but dating a student's parent is seriously not on. Lorelai's angle I can understand, sort of, but Max really should have known better.

Oh, @disqus_jc0YTPDJYw:disqus, I'd forgotten about that one. Ugh, indeed. Luke's discomfort with comfort, as it were, may have been an important part of his character, but in episodes like that one it just made him seem borderline moronic. In general I like Luke, but his inability to adapt to different circumstances…