@avclub-eac75edc18b8546c46893fe4b75ab995:disqus Oh. My bad. I was thrown by you talking about the Second Season.

Uh, do you mean to say every reviewer here suffers from Pilot Viruet, because that's how it works, dude. Grading against the shows themselves (and their own lack of quality), rather than attempting to find some sort of weird objective definition of quality.

Agreed, for the most part. Not my favourite of the season, but I thought it played on the rehashing enough to conjure some emotion out of me (damn you, DSB! You know my weakness for when the swarthy girl reminisces about her past!). Although every bone in my body prays that Rachel gets knocked on her ass in the…

They appear to be doing what they've done fairly regularly since 3x01, taking any plot that lasts more than three episodes and alternating between on-plot and off-plot episodes to give other standalone episodes time to breathe (which it is definitely not alone as a show in doing)

"But I've never written an opera!" "And I've never seen one!"

Oh good lord, I am looking forward to next week. The Devil's Hands is probably my favourite Series Finale in history.

Assuming there's a Sherlock 4 (which there will be, let's face it). My Gatiss-speculation is almost entirely based on his longevity with the show. It seems to me that, of the two, if Gatiss was offered the job he'd be replaced on Sherlock in a heartbeat. BUT, I say all this without so much as DVD-Commentary knowledge,…

He seems like the obvious choice to replace Moffat in a year or two (by sheer persistence alone), and it's episodes like this that make me perfectly fine with that.

"Brandon Nowalk selfishly hopes he never leaves, that the two of them might cuddle forevermore."
In that moment, I became Nowalk, and understood the universe.

It made me think of tears… in rain.

@avclub-e56eea9a45b153de634b23780365f976:disqus Awersome.

@avclub-e56eea9a45b153de634b23780365f976:disqus Well, I was over-simplifying. I had a point of view. I wasn't arguing to a conclusion, is all. Just expounding on an approach to the texts. All very straight-forward in ways that a 3-year-minimum PhD never is.

It was a case study so I was basically just saying "Hey, these are a thing? What's up with that?" and ending up with "So yeah. I guess that's what's up with that." I'm a classy academic.

Hooray! A Castle review! On a vaguely related note, my dubious MA dissertation on the Heat novels (well, Tie-In fiction using Heat as a case study) did pretty well! If nothing else, the AV Club's Castle reviews gave me some fine footnote material.

I vaguely remember, when I was younger, there was a game called Virtual Springfield, where you could wander a, well, virtual Springfield including the Arcade. I can't remember if the games were fully playable mini-games, but my mind seems to tell me that some of them were.

I saw the Twin Peaks episode because Wiki told me about it and I had just finished Twin Peaks. I love me some Clue, though, and although I'll probably get around to watching this show properly sometime, I have to ask: is it worth watching this as a standalone? I ask as a big fan of reference humour and quirky…

Heroes: 5
Glee: 3
Uh, anyone else?

They'd really never seen a king of beasts with quite so little hair. Such is Hollywood.

If he wasn't officially it already two seasons ago, I'd say Darren was the break-out star of the last 20 episodes or so (including the end of last season). He's never been funnier (although he's never been further away from Kurt who, bless his heart, did tend to force them both into romance plots).

@avclub-e0ffb5f5ebc766c197a156e63a4668b8:disqus Seems like your 5 was my 10, although the Summer of 69 was a little too dated for us. I totally get where you're coming from, and I do agree that it's not a perfect translation of guilt, but I know plenty of people who went through admitting-guilty-pleasures phases in…