Disagree completely. Season 2 is excellent. Season 3 is a little weaker, but absolutely not garbage. I think it looks worse because it doesn't have a huge overarching plot, but the Logan/Veronica stuff alone would make it must see. Then there is the Lamb stuff, the election. Just Duncan no longer being in the show…

Veronica Mars might be in my top 5 shows of all time. As in, up there with the Wire and Mad Men. It's definitely top 10.

I watch too much British TV. The word has lost all meaning or emphasis for me.

I totally agree, but I would rather he be close to that line than so far away from it that the show calcifies.

It's hard to tell what would have happened had Dan Harmon been there for Season 4, but the reason I'm propping him up for Community is because I think the show is inconsistent for good reasons. When I look at Season 3, 5, and 6, I see a writer constantly questioning the basic tenets of his show and his characters. He…

Season 3's problems have been overstated. I've seen the show 3 or 4 times now and it works really, really well. I don't think there is a bad season of Veronica Mars. Also, Veronica Mars doesn't just work on the teenage drama/noir private eye level. It does excellent work in building out the class problems in its…

That is how the flow of time works. Primacy doesn't confer quality.

I haven't seen Buffy so there is the possibility of this being true, but every complaint I have heard about Buffy from Buffy fans suggests to me that Veronica Mars, partly by virtue of being a shorter show, is all around better. At the minimum, Kristen Bell is a better actress than Sarah Michelle Gellar.

For me, I think it was when Jared Harris pops up in for an appearance which is around episode 7, but a lot of people will tell you near the end of Season 1. Seasons 2-4 are excellent though, and I think it just takes a little while to get on to the shows wavelength. I wasn't a huge fan of Season 1 at first, but on…

We could also talk about the majority black cast of the Wire and Treme. Or having two of the main characters on the Wire be a black lesbian cop and a black gay gangster.

Well then it depends on what we mean by starting a trend. I think it's arguable that the Sopranos and HBO were much more widespread in the serialization trend they started, especially as it conferred weight to the format. Buffy could be considered as starting a trend if you think about its staff that then went on to…

I don't know that there is a current TV landscape, at least not a super rigid one. I don't think a frothy dramedy is the problem. Even if it doesn't fit, it doesn't mean it can't be good television, and the revival was not good television.

Personal opinion? I don't think it's always a matter of the show ignoring criticism, but often accurately acknowledging what it's good at and then overfocusing on that. Have a popular break out character? Why not make them the defacto star? A lot of sitcoms do this and then ruin the balance that made the character…

What backlash? I don't know what you're referring to. Is this over his support of Hillary? Internet types tend to forget being mad at someone fairly quickly as a new scandal happens. I think Casey will be fine. Also, I couldn't care less about his success or lack thereof. I think the fact that we are talking about him…

What about Twin Peaks? Wasn't that heavily serialized and had a cult following? It way preceded Buffy.

I don't think you'd find a country with a stronger anti-Nazi policy than Germany and they haven't gone away there. I'll agree with eventually, but eventually can take a long, long time. We'll all be long dead before Nazism goes away.

I'd be fine with that as an argument, but the article isn't arguing anything it's just describing the current state of HBO when compared to the past state of HBO. Which is fine as an article, I found it interesting. I think the title is misleading as it prepped me for a different kind of article.

I didn't say popularity conferred knowledge or skill or experience. But if we're talking about somebody being a "nobody", then we are talking about popularity. And Casey is popular. Therefore, he is not a nobody.

This is a strange article. I feel like it's an article praising HBO for its inclusion of female voices, but the title makes it sound like this is going to end at any moment. Is it a sign of progress or a temporary blip in the male dominated landscape? Title things better please.

Fringe seems like a bad example since that was sold as X-Files, but I get your greater point.