Did someone dare them to make a bigger train wreck of a musical television show than Glee? Because if so…either kudos, or we're about to have another Producers level situation on our hands.

That was the big difference - in fact, when Cecily was there having a thousand times more chemistry with Che than Jost had with her or Leslie Jones, what was probably an attempt to show what a good sport Cecily was turned into a live demonstration of how much they fired the wrong host. I would hazard that Strong/Che…

But actually, it's one of the biggest disappointments of modern television (well, for me, anyway) that there hasn't been a high quality, successful musical TV series. I don't know if the problem is that they're not sustainable (what works for a 90 minute movie or 2 hour stage production can't be returned to every week…

I love how there's absolutely no suggestion of anything romantic ever possibly happening between them (and if I recall correctly, there was an entire season 1 episode devoted to examining just how douchey Schmidt would have to be to even think about that). They remind me of the best parts of what Ted and Lily were…

I choose to believe that line was a reference to Dave's abysmal restaurant plan from Happy Endings and was therefore part of New Girl's gradual transformation into season 3 of that show.

I think you might be overexpressing my reaction here; I'm not outraged or shocked or any of that, and I'm certainly not attempting to defend or explain people who are, because yeah, you're right, that's completely irrational. But I think the problem here is twofold - first, that the first two leads (and yes, there…

Well, I look at it this way: something that doesn't have the best track record with gender representation seems to be doing the exact same thing that led to criticism the first time it did that thing. It seems fair to be slightly concerned about that. I'm not saying we should write off the season or the show or…

People are complaining because the only concrete casting news so far is of a younger, prettier white dude and an older, less pretty white dude, and that's slightly alarming given the promises to move away from doing that in the first season.

That's honestly what I'm more concerned about now, even more than the dubious casting of the guy responsible for making The Internship a thing there were commercials for (because I trust Pizzolatto to get a good performance out of pretty much anyone at this point). But the treatment of female characters in the first…

Literally everything about his face makes me want to punch it though

Other beacons of hope for Brooks Whelan: the fact that six cast members were fired after last season but he's the one who keeps getting mentioned.

It does suck, but I can kind of understand it in a situation like this where the whole point of the job is public relations and public image. It's a lot more socially acceptable to believe in mystical supernatural grandpa than to believe in evil science potions, and so the company has to take into account whether…

Yeah…it does kind of seem like BSG's SPOILER "we have this super cool image/idea/line and we'll deal with how it fits into everything else later" tendencies could be argued to have started with the very first scene of the show.

Someone needs to explain to SNL the difference between nostalgia and not seeing a person on your television screen for five minutes.

Sunday was an incredibly disappointing day.

Don't remind me, I just got over my Victorian!Clara-related bitterness.

I have a theory I kind of like which is that it's some totally random, never seen before or since monster that just happened to have really good timing and is now off doing its own thing, mildly confused about the seriously weird situation it happened to have interrupted.

And going back to the review, I like that it had all those calls back to earlier "what's lurking in the dark" episodes, because - for me at least - that made it easier to assume that the Doctor was on to something. But then the vagueness of the theory slowly unravels it, which all works to make the ultimate revelation…

I think for now at least it's still them trying to get away from that horribly misaimed flirty thing they were dealing with in the premiere - if they're still doing it in a few episodes, I can see it getting grating, but for now, it makes sense as a way to distinguish the relationship.

Yeah, but it's not like he's going to get the chance to do stuff like that on SNL. I mean, I get the allure of having a surefire 10 minutes on tv every week verses fighting with Jessica Williams for Daily Show screentime, but this seems like a step down.