You'll like Supernatural for all the reasons everyone's listed already. It's very similar to the funnier X Files episodes, and the early seasons included a number of people who worked on the X Files both in front of the camera and behind the scenes.

I'm surprised that the angels call it angel radio. I thought that was just Dean's little metaphor for broadcast telepathy.

Yes. S1 is competently done genre TV with just enough distinctive touches to make it enjoyable, and the quality just escalates once it gets its legs in S2.

I prefer the arc episodes of SPN through season 5, but the monster of the week stand-alones are the strongest ones in more recent seasons.

I imagine they just get blown out of their current vessels and have to make their way back or else find new ones.

I thought Sam's coma/near-death dreams were nicely done. We rarely get that much interiority from him; a lot of the time, he's there to react to Dean's bad jokes or to act as a problem for Dean to solve. It seemed like he knew this and wanted to be done with it during his fireside chat with Death. I do hope Dean's big…

I guess I didn't go far enough in damning it with faint praise, then. (I expected a more visceral reaction to both Young Adult and Girls when I watched them.) The lack of character growth would be fine if it were the sort of movie that was trying to show that people's capacity for change is limited, but it isn't.…

Young Adult was good, but I think it suffers from exactly the same problem that Girls does. It's very observant but not particularly self-aware. In both cases, the protagonists seem virtually interchangeable with the writers — a side effect of "write what you know" — and while they're good depictions of a certain…

"I played with The Ween!"

How could you even think of casting someone on a CW show without first inspecting his abs?

I rather liked Shallow Gravy's appearance at the Venture homeschool prom.

As far as I'm concerned, Angel ended with the heroes outgunned and probably doomed, facing down the dragon. The comics never happened.

Lydia was a poor third-generation copy of Walt. No talent of her own, just a knack for paperwork and a nervous attention to details. Walt wasn't above killing people when his hand was forced, but Lydia didn't even have the stomach for that — not that it's a commendable trait, but getting into the meth trade and being…

Even his hatred for the show was starting to sound phoned in.

I love me some Mark Pellegrino, and while it's true that his presence can be the mark (no pun intended) of a good show, it's just as often an indication of a weak show in need of a solid villain to carry it. As much as I liked the original Tomorrow People, I'm pretty sure the CW's reboot is going to focus on abs, hair…

I only take that criticism seriously is if it comes from someone who reads only non-fiction and watches nothing but documentaries about child soldiers, human trafficking, and the like.

But Jesse's original colors were primaries. He's reverted to them, but instead of the garish colors from S1, he's wearing muted red, yellow, and blue.

Uncle Jack and company are probably violent bigots but not the types to read Mein Kampf in the original German or scrutinize surnames ("Does Heisenberg sound Jew-y to you?"). Prison gang Nazis are a bit different from the types who post screeds on Stormfront.

Assuming you're not just trolling, you've been watching the show wrong.

I'll pour one out for Hank & Gomie.