I take it that Starz and CW are competing for the rights to Jesus' teenage years. CW so it can do 'The Originals: the Early Years', and Starz so it could have a hot young guy spending lots of time naked.

I suspect they'd already written the outline of Doreen getting killed off, if not the entire 4th episode, well before they cast 'an older heavier woman on television. You've got the cause and effect reversed (Doreen the character was always going to die around that time, and because of that they considered casting an…

Yep, I'm biracial (though with very dark skin), transgender, female, gay and one third minke whale, so I'm eminently qualified to post on this topic. Unlike Mr Rowan Kaiser, however, I don't tend to transfer my own prejudices onto television shows, and then go on social justice warrior rants blaming the show for my…

They should have started the season with Carol telling all the Woodburry arrivals 'now with so many of you here, we've got a shortage of clothing, so the new arrivals will all have to wear these old prison uniforms for the time being' [starts handing out red shirts to everyone]

It 'could' happen really easily. Almost all the deaths in fires comes from smoke inhalation (by the time you're close enough to be part of the actual fire, you're close enough for all the surrounding oxygen to have been sucked out of the area). So an RPG or similar lands nearby, a smallish fire starts up, and anyone…

Still wondering how the show managed to lose a sense of theme when it hit the one chapter in the comics that was theme-heavy (yes, the 1st volume 'Days gone bye' was brilliant, as was its sort-of-adaptation that comprised season 1 of the show, but mostly through visual storytelling and the presence of Shane).

Why should that be surprising? They're just the intro characters. They're there because it's a common writing technique to start a miniseries or movie from the viewpoint of 'outsiders', to make it easier to justify laying out exposition about the setting. Their role effectively ended a couple of episodes ago, so of…

I thought it was fairly obvious that they were just using Alan as the 'audience introduction' character. You know, the common writing technique where you start off having an outsider as the main character for the first few episodes, and then gradually shift emphasis to the ACTUAL leads as the series goes on. That…

The most hilarious thing about these reviews is how, when you go back to the early reviews, you realise that the AV Club reviewer managed to engage ina truly incredible display of racism, and then go on a social justice warrior rant while completely oblivious to his own racist comments.

Is Trent Reznor litigious? I know he's gone on the record as regretting the way that 'Closer' went from a semi-art song within a theme album to being something played at seedy lapdance clubs, so I'm not certain that he'd appreciate another of his songs going down that path,

Oh come on, given the number of dialogue clunkers in the show (sushi is still some weird exotic dish that we don't grab for lunch each week from one of the gazillion sushi take-aways in every western country? The yakuza chopping off fingers for leaking information isn't as common knowledge as the horse-head scene from…

Killing Tommy wasn't a gutpunch?

Actually, I'd be up for Serkis (as Gollum) taking over Amber Benson's part.

OH GOD NOOOO!!!!

Are the 4 downvotes a way of reminding us that Skye is a computer hacker and can bypass AV's one-vote rule?

Nah, US networks seem to place a massive over-weighting on the US ratings, no matter how many other countries a show is screened in. The extra violence might put off some people here and in Europe, but from what I've seen, you can get away with any amount of violence with US audiences so long as none of the characters…

I'm wondering whether one of the problems (you can't seriously expect me to say 'the' problem with this show) is the lack of any early-season mention of what the team's actual mission parameters are. Okay, put like that it sounds silly, but right now there's a weird disconnect between the show's idea of the massive…

I hear that a lot, and I smoked for a few years - usually the very same stuff as the friends who said 'oh, you need to smoke better quality buds', while simultaneously saying 'wow, these buds are awesome'.

Actually Star Trek is an excellent example of what the commentators here are asking for. Even Picard doesn't appear in every episode. Each episode focuses on a small selection of the Enterprise crew, suited to the mission at hand.

No Almost Human review yet? FOR SHAAAMME