Anna Torv Emmy Campaign
That seems to be this season's ultimate goal.

I can't believe the most popular complaint against THE GAME is its implausibility when the ending is so horrifically mean-spirited despite the ill-conceived intentions of everyone involved. As El Pato said, there's no reason for Douglas to be thankful to his friends for making him believe that his entire existence was…

I probably wouldn't have noticed it if Wysocki hadn't have said it twice in the span of ten seconds.

Don't shoot me, I'm part Italian!

Any episode featuring Anna Torv dressed like that
gets an A+ from me.

Virtually all of my knowledge on boxing and MMA comes from television and film (in other words, I know very little about boxing and almost nothing about MMA except that two guys are beating the hell out of each other), but I think they did a pretty good job of showing what a disadvantage Lights was at. The other guy…

NOBODY expects a great fifth sequence!

Thanks for pointing that out, big ander. Reference went COMPLETELY over my head even though I've seen (most of) TWIN PEAKS.

"Mr. President, your daughter is in the chunnel."

'Luck' sounds incredibly promising
I've become very excited for the upcoming series after recently watching and falling in love with 'Deadwood'. Hopefully, it will have the same inspired writing and overall quality as the aforementioned show. I'm also hoping that Mann's visual style will remain present past the pilot,…

Whoever did the write-up included the word "brainpan", so I think it's safe to assume that they've at least seen 'Firefly'/'Serenity.'

George, Festivus is your heritage!

'Fringe' tends to skirt a very thin line between procedural and serial (leaning more towards the latter these days), so I'd say no. There's a fair bit of setup in the first season that pays off down the line.

Deadwood (Season 2)
The Shield (between Season 3, 5 and 7; too weak to choose one)
Breaking Bad (Season 3)
Mad Men (Season 4)
Terriers - Love this show too damn much
Seinfeld (Season 4 or 5)
Arrested Development (Season 2)
The Office US (Season 2)
The Office UK (Series 2, if only for the finale)

Season 4 should not be faulted for the "slow" start of 5. There was plenty of opportunity for the new showrunner to start breaking through the narrative boundaries that have usually constrained the series, only to be squandered with a mediocre plotline and villain.

This thread has jumped the shark.

As Todd said, it doesn't exactly humanize him, but it does work to establish his background and give us an idea of how he came to be this way. In that sense, it makes his actions more substantiated (relative to himself, obviously.)

It's as Ann as the nose on plain's face that this needs to happen.

"Just … let go"
Oh, what bittersweet irony.

When the camera panned down, I was expecting to see an indistinct figure (Richard) off in the distance. Didn't even dawn on me that the driver would be the shooter.