"Will they or won't they" was by no means new to sitcoms when "Friends" did it.  Besides "Cheers" (who did it twice) and "Moonlighting," "Frasier" was doing it a year earlier with Niles and Daphne; "Caroline in the City" was doing it contemporaneous with "Friends"; "The Nanny" started one a year before "Friends";…

If that's correct, it would be an improvement.  The halves of that band did not come together very well.

EDIT: Damn you Disqus for revoking my strikethrough privileges.

I wonder if Heller knows we do this every week.

Is it just me, or has this band aged more poorly than practically every other buzz band of that era?  Barlow's melancholy mewling doesn't appeal to me at all anymore now that I'm not a melodramatic teenager (though he still writes some pretty melodies), and other dude's noise-bleats were always just something I put up…

Yeah, I like 'em.  I generally am into metal that is punky and punk that is metally.  Would love to work with a death/crust act like Hellshock or Instinct of Survival, but haven't found any unsigned ones that seem worth the time.

Let's see, what have I been listening to?  New Evile.  They're making a blatant run at somehow creating a new Master of Puppets, and I ain't even mad at 'em for trying.  At least they're more ambitious than 97% of retro thrash acts.  Good album.

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Fuck outta here.

Yep.  It needs something interesting to happen in it, but nothing does.

@avclub-ab60729bcbd8293eb5f31e5077c29049:disqus  She was pregnant.  It's hard not to be bothered about the fact that they were stabbing her *and* her baby at the same time.  Regardless of one's stance on abortion or when life begins, something about that is upsetting - and they put it front and center at the beginning…

I can understand that.  It's a different kind of harsh.  What kills me about Randy is the capriciousness of it - how a kind of snotty and unlikeable kid like Namond gets the golden ticket in the candy bar, and a great kid like Randy who could have been so much more is beaten down until he breaks.  Wallace's fate is…

SPOILER FOR THE WIRE S4, SINCE DUDE ABOVE ME ALREADY WENT THERE

I think you mean S4 of The Wire.  Shudder.

@avclub-4caf6aa0375b2499ebfe7e971b36eee3:disqus  Watch the vague spoilers, sir!  But the answer is "No, at least not yet."

Your take on Dany is just completely inaccurate, I think.  I don't care if you like her or not, but she has plenty of agency.  She could have curled up in a ball when she married Drogo; she could have blown away in the wind after Drogo's death; she could have kept on supporting her vicious shit of a brother; she could…

Welcome to the internet, where Walter White can murder complete innocents to save his ego- and meth-fueled empire and we're cool with it, but Skyler White is a raving BITCH and oh my god I wish she would die RIGHT NOW.

@avclub-03062ac10a37a7b63523b8ff320ecbb2:disqus  I know what you mean, but I think to some extent that quality undermined the power of any individual moments of the show.  It was so unrelentingly bleak that it just numbed you sometimes.  What Game of Thrones has apparently mastered is the complete sucker-punch.  To…

Cersei's also pretty interesting.  She's primarily motivated by greed/lust for power, but also a certain envy of the more powerful roles of men that shines through all of her interactions with her late husband, her father, and even sometimes Tyrion and Jaime.

As a veteran watcher of all those shows and many others, I think this scene was one of the bleakest, roughest, nastiest things ever shown in a TV drama.  Yeah, lots of characters died in "The Wire" and several of those were really hard to take - but they never had a moment quite like Cat's final scream of anguish and…