Everything's great at your Junes.

Like everyone else, I love this guy. He's done a couple of episodes of the Mentalist, playing the abusive father of one of the supporting characters. The guy who plays his son, this big
Australian lug, is usually fine on the show - he's a solid enough actor with a slippy American accent - but in his scenes with…

Thanks for posting that. It's a good reminder that for all the nonsense of this show - all the product placement and reality TV bullshit and Christina Milian from the Sprint Skybox - every once in a while there's a song that makes me really goddam happy.

You are so right. I only knew "I Touch Myself" and wrote her off as a pop star sex kitten, but a few years back I saw the live performance of "Boys in Town" at the US Festival on YouTube - with her hunched shoulders and her head banging, stomping around like an angry little monster, she was tremendous.

I know, right? On CBS at 9:00 PM, no less - TV sure is changing …

They did a nice job positioning Robin as the anti-Kalinda. Kalinda flirts with a target, he or she get suckered and are never seen again - Robin's mark shows up at her work the next day and asks for a date. Kalinda drinks (presumably top-shelf) scotch at some upscale lawyer bar all night long and is unaffected - Robin…

Sweet God, I had no idea TVDW was so young. Knowing that my favorite writer on this site could be my son has thrown me for a fucking loop, I gotta tell ya.

"… a significant lack of critical thinking about why these plots were jumbled together in the same episode … Each half of the episode doesn't know what the other half is doing."

"… a significant lack of critical thinking about why these plots were jumbled together in the same episode … Each half of the episode doesn't know what the other half is doing."

What's so galling is that this is so often such a funny show - quirky guest judges! Devious opposing council! Santa statue gets a hummer! Kalinda beats the hell out of a guy, quick cut to bawk bawk chicken song! David Lee! Eli Gold, the perpetually blindsided Mr. Furley of campaign managers! - that the one time they…

What's so galling is that this is so often such a funny show - quirky guest judges! Devious opposing council! Santa statue gets a hummer! Kalinda beats the hell out of a guy, quick cut to bawk bawk chicken song! David Lee! Eli Gold, the perpetually blindsided Mr. Furley of campaign managers! - that the one time they…

You make a good point about the show's essential optimism - I hadn't thought about that, and I think that's why the show's insistence on every singer having a sob story is so galling. Seeing a nervous singer and her nervous parents is enough - it makes me really want to see a chair turn around and the singer burst…

You make a good point about the show's essential optimism - I hadn't thought about that, and I think that's why the show's insistence on every singer having a sob story is so galling. Seeing a nervous singer and her nervous parents is enough - it makes me really want to see a chair turn around and the singer burst…

Hey hey!

Hey hey!

He's a "bodyguard/unofficial life coach," eh? Hellooooooo, Magical Negro!

He's a "bodyguard/unofficial life coach," eh? Hellooooooo, Magical Negro!

I was wondering that, too. He's still unbearable, but if there's something genuinely wrong with the guy it takes a lot of the fun out of watching him get mocked by Gordon Ramsay.

I was wondering that, too. He's still unbearable, but if there's something genuinely wrong with the guy it takes a lot of the fun out of watching him get mocked by Gordon Ramsay.

"You have a job and they don't, so fuck 'em" Yeah, Marah Eakin, AV Club writer! Fuck people who write online criticisms of popular culture!