I've loved reading these reviews, partially because Alias was an amazing show but mainly because reviews of this show offer a contextualisation of the past decade of television that is hugely important. It goes beyond "Planet JJ" to touch on themes of serialisation, the culture of the finale, the dominance of…

As I left the cinema last night my mind wandered to what this review would say. Considering most of this review is handed over to the adaptation element, would it not be a good idea for the AV Club to commission a second review by someone who hasn't read the books (a la Game Of Thrones)?

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Hmm… I never really considered the classroom thing. I just assumed she was his age but back in school - not some PYT.

I've heard the Barney Sister theory a few times now, but I just don't know if I can quite get on board with it - for one thing it would require the mother to be about ten years younger than Ted. Remember that Barney's Dad didn't settle down and start that family until a while after he'd last seen Barney, and Barney…

In an effort to bump ratings to Walking Dead levels, AMC will be inserting Michonne's arrival into every show this calendar year.

I'll step in, then. Basically the AV Club ratings system marks shows against their own capabilities - so when The Walking Dead puts out a mediocre episode but a mediocre episode is the best we can hope for from them, it gets itself a shiny A.

Ah yeah, you're right. But if she can successfully watch Ringer without drifting she deserves her paycheck.

I would agree, but watching Ringer on a weekly basis I find it a show that defies watchability. I start watching it and suddenly I'm standing in the kitchen washing the dishes, or on my laptop, or just lost in thought. It's so poorly written, somehow both insultingly simple and constantly drowned in a foggy, alcoholic…

What I've found very interesting about this season is how, to a certain extent, Alicia has been pushed to the sidelines. She is the centre around which every storyline orbits, so her removal would make the show untenable. But she hasn't seemed absolutely necessary in many of the plots.

I agree with the "hips" thing, and indeed "den" and perhaps "drove".

That Poison Ivy. Her and her Convalescent Skateboard Police Hips.

I'm just impressed Cameron Diaz has the integrity to admitting swallowing his cat while driving at high speed.

I can't tell whether @avclub-da2cfbc3287da0f4f985aa7350b8831b:disqus or @avclub-f3e08049381b387481985c16cfab7247:disqus are agreeing with me or not. I think we're in agreement on the details, but in order us all to have a sense of agreement on what a country is it can't be said that Quebec is a country. If it were…

I suppose you could argue that it reduces the Irish to stereotypes, but individually I can't see any inaccurate descriptions in the different pieces. This is, unfortunately, the history of Ireland - a country which has experienced the social change that most countries experience in two or three generations in just one.

I would agree that while Northern Ireland is technically a country for naming purposes, in any realistic sense on an international level it is part of the larger country of the United Kingdom (I'm ignoring the different political structures in each area, as by that logic Quebec would be a country).

Ah, but this is on the assumption that you get to get with the person you love, even if they don't love you as much.

It's spelled "adorkable".

I suppose I was just saying that people get caught up in the form. Digital, film, whatever, there's no need to be precious about things like that. It's the art itself that's the art. It's like an author demanding that they can only work on cloth paper, to use your example.

I don't see what's frightening about this at all, no more than office workers in the 80s or 90s being forced to switch to using computers.