They scream at crazy people to be less crazy, and get their children to cry in front of them and beg them to stop being crazy.  It makes for dramatic TV, but doesn't seem therapeutically responsible.

A lot of the ones on the show have spouses and families.  It's pretty depressing, because there's usually one hoarder spouse and one non-hoarder spouse, and yet the non-hoarder spouse sticks around.  (Bonus depression points- their sticking around means the kids have to live in it.)  And the non-hoarder is so beat…

I don't watch this show regularly, but my fall/spring cleaning routines always start with 2-3 episodes of Hoarders.  It makes throwing things away feel awesome.  Especially chucking "potential" projects- no, I probably won't ever do anything with these fabric scraps.

I wish I were a dude, so that my Halloween costume this year could be a blue football jersey with WEST on the front and McKRINGLEBERRY on the the back.

Juliette is the best- how awesome is it that she doesn't even hire that dude?

Peggy is the only good thing about Teddy's continued existence as a character that continues to have stories and lines.  As viewers, we should rise up and demand a constitution that mandates that Teddy will never be onscreen without Peggy in scheme hatching mode.  Maybe that's harsh- he can have segments on his own,…

Now that's a show I would watch.  Just an average family getting repeatedly held hostage by various organizations with various motives.  As soon as they get free from one murderous shadowy organization, bam!  Hostages again. "Remember the Russian mob season?" we'd say.  "Or the crazy fundamentalist cult season?" …

Yes, it's remarkable how much better short story-writer Jhumpa Lahiri is than novel-writer Jhumpa Lahiri. 

Ooooh- yes.  And more importantly, when they stop playing.  Please get a job at Google, Scrawler.

The Dreyfus case?

Yes, it always seems odd to me when studios don't post this kind of stuff, when it would take them almost no effort/money.  I'm a consumer!  I want to buy what you're selling!  Just tell me when/if it's playing near me!  Taco trucks have figured this out- why haven't indie studios?

It's hard to say how much was her vs. other people, though either way, her life story is anything but boring.  She's the perfect soap opera character because she almost always makes the worst possible decision and takes zero responsibility.  And then in the last year of her life, she decides to play the part of the…

Don't forget bitching about AA Dowd.

I don't get this "Mary Queen of Scots is boringzzzzzz" thing- I'm not saying this CW show is going to be great, but the woman blew up her second husband with gunpowder.  And then she was kidnapped by a Earl making a power grab, who she fell in love with and secretly married.  And THEN, after 30 years of calling…

Yes- the overall adaptation wasn't the best (Abercrombie + Fitch model Pip?) but Gillian Anderson was amazing.  I really like this new trend of her showing up as a supporting character with a British accent.  She's killing it!  (Just watched Shadow Dancer this weekend.)

On the Dowd curve, barely.  And around here, Stoll is best known as "the reason why you kept watching House of Cards, even when it started to get a bit ridiculous."

Exactly.  Especially when the characters are as beautifully drawn as Holofcener's.

It's also ridiculous because it makes it sound like Holofcener's movies are just a bunch of rich white people lounging around and whining about the substandard food on their private jets.  She has a lot of privileged characters, but she also writes middle class and lower-middle class characters bumping up against that…

Shame on all of us that I had to scroll halfway down the page before finding this. 

@avclub-2b88c1c9536414bc2c9e43d902eadcd0:disqus Arguments You Have With Your 'Buy American' Grandfather At Christmas: The Movie!