I still really like the idea of using Alan as the 'audience intro' mechanism for the show, before branching out to the other characters and slowly letting Alan himself fade into the background. Though at least one AV club reviewer (Rowan, as always) couldn't help but transpose his own racial prejudices onto this, when…

Nonsense. It isn't in the same league as the true turds of television. Helix is better than any of the Star Trek shows except DS9. It's leagues ahead of the Following and the Blacklist. The worst that can be said for it is that it could have handled the transition away from Farragut better (the show has borne out my…

Nowhere near Razzie standard, It's better than,say, ST:: Voyager for a
start, and many leagues ahead of Enterprise. Razzies for this season
would by The Following, the Blacklist, Two Broke Girls, Two and a Half
Men, the US remake of Rake, Atlantis (which the BBC cancelled the
amazing Bafta-winning horror-superhero…

Too lazy, don't read?

True, and I had absolutely no complaints about the way the review discussed the pilot itself. It WAS a weak pilot, for the reasons the review stated. My problem was that much of the review wasn't aimed at the pilot, but rather the reviewer's groundless predictions about future episodes.

Ever since his fantastic performance in the 1st season of Prison Break, I'd pencilled him in as an excellent actor who sadly lacked the standard sex appeal needed for a series lead. He was hilarious in My Name is Earl, as well, but the thing which made him stand out in Prison Break was the way that he begins by…

AVC really ought to make up for its bizarre review of the pilot for Dusk TIll Dawn, by commencing reviews of the series.

The most hilarious Shakespearisation I've ever heard of would have to be that 'troupe' doing 'Live nude female Shakespeare' (exactly what it says on the box - an all-woman cast doing Shakespeare in the buff, with an unusually busty Hamlet) in order to get around local laws prohibiting strip clubs.

In fairness, Rob's military advance is almost entirely 'off-page' in the books as well. The show would have had to invent a large amount of new plot (always dangerous, especially given how they already have to cut chunks out to shorten it for tv).

Yes, you really should check it out.

Someone please clarify this for me (I haven't watched the show): what do people who like this show find that is good in it? It's a popular show that's been renewed - but I'm yet to encounter a review that captures what its fans see in it.

Charles Mitter the human-sh….

I say whip it. Whip it good.

Not problematic the first time around, but the FO3 tutorial was insanely annoying when you wanted to start a new character.

Not sure what show you were watching, but in Seinfeld, George is broke and single for pretty much the first half of the show's run, before sociopathing his way up in the second half. Even then, he's hardly scoring above his pay grade every other week - he's constantly mocked for being bald and fat, and never actually…

If you listen later in the pilot, you'll find out that Will actually was an agent, until he quit to go to academia instead because of his mental state.

True, but it's only a portion of the teenage girl market, and it's easy to over-estimate their relevance. CW is still a ratings lightweight, even TVD isn't exactly lighting the world on fire in terms of viewer numbers, and the Originals has a small audience even by CW's standards. These shows always have the…

In fairness, Dunham's writing makes it quite clear that she realises that her character in Girls is self-centered, and from the latter half of s1 the show treats the character accordingly. Woodie Allen to this day seems blissfully ignorant that the 'Woody Allen character' in his films isn't 100% a likeable,…

To be honest, I don't think she really benefits from the degree of media attention, even in a purely commercial sense.

Yeah. What irritates me isn't so much that they've written a domestic abuser into the sexy hero of the show, but that the writers don't seem to realise that he's basically a grade-A violent abuser…especially to his sister.