Yeah, I spend all of The Spirit thinking "gawd, this a piece of shit" but I was at no point bored.

Cliffhanger?
I'm not sure it's a cliffhanger, in the sense that I think it would be a brutally powerful way to end the who. Imagine if this was a series finale, wouldn't that be an incredible way to go out, with the main characters having essentially broken bad?

This isn't a survey or anything
But I feel like often when authors (like, of books) describe their process it involves winging it and seeing where the story takes them. So, novelistic tv and all that.

The Challenge
How did Miles even remotely follow the challenge? They were supposed to use one of the pieces in the art, right? What did he use?

Her dish was good in theory though, which gave her a big advantage on John's dish which would have been boring even if done well.

No worries about Paula Abdul
I think the reason she's so bland isn't that she is nice, it's that she has no idea about music and so is unable to make meaningful criticism.

Contribution to culture
That Stroke of Genius mashup is really good.

I like Le Tigre
I once went to see Beck so I could see them open for him.

I addressed this higher up, but yeah, "selfish" is the wrong word. It's a really shitty thing to do to the people who love you, but it's also a really shitty thing to do to yourself.

Depression isn't rational. People don't commit suicide because they sit down and add up all the good stuff and subtract all the bad stuff and decide it sums too far on the negative side. As someone who suffers from Depression (although far from suicidal) and also plenty privileged with wonderful things (house,…

His acting has been superb all season. For me Goodman, Khandi Alexander and Clarke Peters are by far the most compelling part of the show - based purely on the quality of the performances.

I've been surprised every seen we see him still alive since the beginning of last episode.

This isn't what the show means, but typically in political science the fourth branch of government is the media.

Talking of BBC dramas
Have y'all at the AV Club been watching Luther with Idris Elba? Because that show is the dogs bollocks.

snake, meet tail
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Khandi Alexander is a hell of a great actor.

I disagree. I think the scene was there to give the audience a glimmer of sympathy for Sonny - to tell us that he wasn't lying about the rescue boat, making us think perhaps he would turn out to be decent after all, before dashing it all on the crack whore rocks.

The Bugle is so good. If you aren't listening to it, and you like things that are funny, then you should be.

No show has more heart than spaced.

Wow, that scene
The acting when Skyler told her tale was just superb.