That's just it - I don't think Cora sees how awful O'Brien is. Lord Grantham never told her about O'Brien's misdeeds from the first season, and she's never there whenever O'Brien does something petty to the other servants. I actually see their relationship as a reminder of how little the Crawleys know what goes on in…

phodreaw, I would watch the fuck out of that show.

SPOILERS AHEAD (I’ll try to keep it as vague as possible)
 
And with “Versatile Toppings,” here’s where we start to get to the thematic heart of this season. It’s become a truism that the first season of VM is the best, and while I can’t deny that it has far and away the best constructed mystery, it’s the second season…

I finally get to find out what on Earth this show is about! Woohoo!

I believe the Choose Your Own Adventure issue was from 2010 (although agreed that it's pretty damn great). My own pick for the best issue of The Unwritten this year would be "Stairway to Heaven." Funny, bizarre, terrifying and unexpectedly moving, it was one of the all-around strangest stories I've experienced this…

No love for The Unwritten? And does the A.V. Club cover manga at all? (I'm just curious.)

When Walt set the paper on fire in order to blow up his car, did anyone else think of that Simpsons episode where Krusty the Clown dives through the window of a shack as Sideshow Bob is riding an antique bi-plane towards him, then he sits on the ground for a while, smoking a cigarette and muttering "What is the…

Something I've been thinking about for a while
I think Anna Gunn is a really good actress, but I feel like the Whites' marriage would be a lot more believable if she wasn't so hot. Skyler is supposed to be the woman Walter settled for after Gretchen left him (at least, that's how I interpreted things). She might have…

Let's also keep in mind…
… that nobody knows for sure if it's even true that Weiner's new salary is the reason they're having financial problems. That's just some shit Kurt Sutter is saying, and he doesn't sound like the most reasonable dude on Earth.

Foreign versions of The Office
I'd be really interested to hear more about some of the foreign versions of The Office, now that seemingly every country on Earth has their own flavor of the show. I always thought it would be a good business move for someone to put out a DVD containing episodes from each version just to…

Rainbow Reckoner - yeah, but remember that the last time we saw Saul, he was planning to leave the country out of fear of what Gus would do to him. What if Gus told him to betray Walt in exchange for his safety? That's my theory, anyway.

Can Huell Use Your Bathroom?
Did anyone else assume Huell was using his time upstairs to plant a bug so Gus could spy on the Whites?

Fables and The Unwritten
Weirdly, those are the only two comics I follow as well. At least, they were up until about a month ago - I've been kinda disappointed in Fables for a while now, and I wanted to read through issue 100 and then decide whether or not to give up on it. I thought the volume Rose Red was a step in…

Lee vs. Roy
For as much as people like to argue that the original, UK version of "The Office" is a more realistic depiction of human behavior (and on the whole, it's true), the central love triangle is actually way better in the U.S. version. Roy is still an oaf, but there's a lot more shading there (there's nothing…

Virtuality and Kings
I always found it ironic that two of the best, most original shows of the past few years were from the broadcast networks: Kings (an alternate-history political thriller set in a world where an America-like nation is ruled by a divine-right king) and Virtuality (a mash-up of hard sci-fi, mindfuck…