William Faulkner vs. the zombies of Yoknapatawpha County.

It's closest analogue might actually be the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.

I also hope she doesn't go the safe route and just add a black friend to the cast next season to appease bloggers. Take the Curb Your Enthusiasm route and tackle your characters' various prejudices head on.

When you create narrative, you necessarily place certain events as more important than others by depicting them. In a city as diverse as NYC, when you ignore race and class, you are in effect saying they don't matter to your characters. And if they don't matter to your characters, it probably doesn't matter much to…

Wait, you can agree with people on the Internet without yelling testify like a moron?

Testify!

I'll give my special minority stamp to certain aspects of this article. Just calling something "white" As a dismissive is intellectually lazy and limiting. Having said that, I was pretty unimpressed with the one episode of "Girls" that I saw. Not just because it ignores minority characters. Whit Stillman and Wes…

David Gordon Green has never written an episode of Eastbound. Worst, best has nothing to do with him. Well directed is a different story, and it is difficult to say what was on the page and wasn't without actually having been there.

And Harvey Birdman.

In theory, Sean, I think you're right. People can talk until they're blue in the face what they think the Wire is but it won't change what it is for you and what it means. In practice however, the sheer volume of those people degrades the overall conversation and shifts the dialogue to something baser and cruder.…

I love Treme. I was one of those who raise Simon's ire and came to it late on DVD (from the library no less). I burned through it within 3-4 days. The music is just a ton of fun, the dialogue and acting sharp. Its "message" isn't quite as apparent as it might have been with the Wire, but I think its building toward…

Phone Booth 2: The Handicapped Stall

Whitney's actually gotten higher ratings this season than Community, 30 Rock, and Parks. Its not an unqualified success or anything but numbers is numbers.

It's an odd situation. I mean, who can argue that NBC has the best collection of comedy on network TV? For some reason and at some point, quality and popularity diverged pointedly and somehow NBC came up holding the short straw. It's hard to blame NBC execs, they were at least uncynical enough to put quality…

Community's not a show beyond reproach, and it's amusing the vitriol being spewed toward a guy who seemingly kinda likes the show. My biggest qualm with Community is that the characters often change wildly from episode to episode. At any given time Pierce might be a total scheming asshole or just an old dude in the…

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Oh god

Yes! And the mom and dad reading the story to their children, knowing they have no chance of getting out alive and choosing to spend their time together and happy.

Titanic. Yeah I said it. As button pushingly maudlin as it was, I totally teared up when Leo *SPOILER* dies. I also owned the Titanic soundtrack. I was a weird little 9 year old.

Tom Cruise is apparently singularly and unsettlingly focused on set.