Infernal Affairs is pretty excellent, although I'd agree it's not on the level of the Vengeance trilogy.  Partly because that psychiatrist character in it kills the movie dead whenever she appears- which fortunately isn't often.

Could have been saved with one more addition, e.g. "I was angry, I wanted the jewels back, I don't know what happened, I WANT PIE!"

With any luck, we'll end up on a tropical island where Vogel is organising an Ultimate Serial Killer Deathmatch.

They actually showed awareness of their own ludicrous melodramaticness by having a telenovela on in the background, though.  Jamie was even showing cleavage and being histrionic at the exact same time as the histrionic hispanic actress on the TV.

For that reason, though, even if it does turn out to be the twist we all see coming, it could still be fun.  Vogel's already a far more compelling character than Colin Hanks going crazy (although he did do a pretty entertaining job of going crazy).

I haven't heard all that much of their stuff, but I'm pretty much the reverse.  I'd only heard them from Soft Bulletin on, and saw a comment on The Terror review here saying something like 'nowhere near as good as their early stuff'.  So I tried this album and Clouds Taste Metallic, and… eh, they were good, but they…

You just need to step up your game, domingohaliburton.

I haven't seen it yet, but please tell me his first words were "Hello, whore."

Maaaaaaaaan, Dexter's back?  Guess I'm going to have to watch it to see how it ends, or something.  As I recall last season started being good and then crashed pretty hard.  Expectations: minimal.

You're just not having enough paprika.

A version focused around Londo wouldn't necessarily be nonstop dark, though- his character can be very funny early on, and then you'd have the descent into grimness.  But even then you'd have Vir arounf to lighten things up.

Oh yeah, I'm with you there- if BSG (and Lost, to bring it down to earth) had planned and executed long-term stories as well as Babylon 5, the results would have been glorious.

I've been inspired by these reviews to try getting back into B5 after 15ish years, since I left off somewhere in the middle of season 3, and… it's taking some getting used to.  Something about the way it has neither Battlestar's gritty state-of-emergency feel (despite the high stakes) nor Firefly's light touch- it…

"Every journey ends, but we go on. The world turns and we turn with it. Plans disappear. Zombies take over…. dude, are you even listening?  This shit is gold!  It's just right for this scene!

"And… they feel… exactly the same.  Exactly.  Reconstructive surgery, man.  It's a goddamned miracle."

My lack of interesting fetishes often disappoints me when I read Savage Love.  Not this time, though.  Thank God for consensual, conventional sex between non-relatives.  It's good shit.

Both were preceded by leaking all over the place.

*NSA waves back*

Oh, and while I'm posting: for the love of God, AV Club, can you stop the auto-running Onion videos?  I don't like using an adblocker but I have lots of things open on my computer at any one time and every time I visit those things kill my browser stone dead.

Anyone else ever wonder if people can identify their partners through Savage Love letters?  The second one contains a lot of highly specific information, and the fact that it's a lesbian couple makes the pool of potential people a whole lot smaller.