Oh, no Freida flashback, that would ruin the mystique! I just want to hear more and more beguiling tidbits from her past until we hear that she cut off her next ex-husband's penis with a chainsaw.

God, Judy King and Yoga Jones clumsily thrusting their tongues into each others' mouths might be the most uncomfortable thing this show has ever done, and this show had Larry and his dad go to a gay sweat lodge.

I did miss Garrett Dillihunt's character, but I'd argue that Hearst is a more fascinating sociopath (of the wealth of sociopaths on the show, as compared to Cy Tolliver being at the very bottom!). And I'm a Season 2 fellow myself, if only for the "Geet" episode and "Boy the Earth Talks To". And my favorite is The…

I'll keep that in mind; I am aware of this book's large cult following!

Deadwood, sweet Deadwood. Lovely show, and I just finished it, although three is the weakest season (although that's kind of like saying a bronze medal is cheap); ditto on Olyphant face-sitting.
And darned if that season of OITNB didn't take two seconds to watch- it's impossible not to sit straight through those last…

I started the first season of The Americans, you know, that little show. Its first season is regarded as its weakest, and I'd definitely agree that it hasn't gotten anywhere near greatness yet (I'm on Episode 5)- I'd go so far as to say that the pilot was actually kind of bad, with its rape storyline, unwieldy…

I'm rather devastated that the garden is no more, if only because that means definitively there will be no more manic, drug-fueled confessions between Piper, Alex and Nicky.

You'll hear the same thing about Season 1 and Season 4 as well, but I'm a Season 3 man, if only because it features the line "I f***ed Ted".

Uh-uh, not in a world where Manhattan exists in all its glorious classical perfection.

I adore Transparent, although it's not for everyone. I think the second season does a better job of focusing on and developing Maura, as she occasionally teeters towards being more symbol than character at the beginning of the first season, beyond Tambor's excellent performance. She can really be just as self-absorbed…

I don't know if I'd rank it among the very best of the decade, like Vanderwerff (he tends to rate things very highly, very quickly), especially considering that seasons like Mad Men Season 5, Enlightened Season 2, Transparent Season 2, and Breaking Bad Season 3 are high water marks. Might go as far as favorite season…

Great hearing that discussion of certain television programming in the lunch room. It was both fascinating and amusing hearing how these inmates view these shows through prison tunnel vision, particularly the confusion over the USA television slate (the ladies wouldn’t have seen Mr. Robot in the current timeline,…

I think that Blanca making eye contact with her comically evil elderly employer, batshit grin on her face, while humping wildly on top of her gardener love in the nude might be the high point of the season.

So, between this and Alien, which is the most phallic film in cinema?

And notably took over that film, not necessarily in a good way!

That's a great little detail- I had no idea about that!

We're at the AV Club here, so- it can be two things!

I have a feeling Sellers would have gone too over-the-top for the character, a la Dr. Strangelove himself; also, I don't think he was confident enough in his Southern accent to succeed in the portrayal.

To be fair, Dr. Strangelove was Dr. Kissinger before Dr. Kissinger was Dr. Kissinger.

A contender for Kubrick's best movie, without a doubt. The best parodies just fully commit to the genre being parodied, like Young Frankenstein and Airplane, and Dr. Strangelove does that better than any other movie. I actually think this is about a dozen times better of a movie than Fail Safe, if only because nuclear…