I'm 100% certain that the Chinatown scenes were filmed in the actual Chinatown in Vancouver. I stayed in Vancouver for a couple weeks in 2007 in Chinatown and those buildings and that dragon are all exactly the way I remember it. Vancouver definitely has a creepy Chinatown. I think part of it is how sparse it is. It's…

Curious about how we'd grade the BBC version
I have been watching the British version simultaneously via NetFlix and I am not sure I'd be going much higher than Scott's B to B- for that one either. The UK show is just as talky and filled with long, boring spots as this show. I think the UK show has a much better sense…

I actually missed the first 5 minutes or so. I only caught it right when he met Ray. In that case I take it all back. I guess they are following closer to the UK script than I thought they would.

Well there is the Emerald Necklace
Boston does have these large parks surrounding much of the city, which are heavily forested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…. And there are some forests a bit more outside of Boston, but I am not sure either of them would be entirely devoid of people like shown here. At least the UK…

I got the impression…
that Booby was like there second-choice guardian after Jules. So like if Andy and Ellie die and then Jules dies, Bobby gets to raise Stan. The guardianship probably doesn't have anything to do with Jules and Bobby's divorce. They all remained friends especially Andy and Bobby, so that was why he…

Felt for Michael C.
I've been in a similar situation of having to deny who you are to meet the expectations of your family. It's really hard when all that comes crumbling down (good but hard).

Big Omission: ER's "The Long Way Around."
This episode featured Juliana Margolis at a convenience store after she is suspended from the hospital. Two Irish dudes (including Ewan McGregor) hold the store hostage after a botched robbery attempt and Nurse Hathaway has to use her skills to help the wounded and keep…

I also liked the Happening's concept and even the actual "villain" of it being trees I thought worked completely as a sort of simple environmentalist message. I even think the bee thing ties well to that if it wasn't so ham-fisted and terribly acted by Wahlberg. I actually liked the movie best when they were out in…

Remember that short-lived VH1 show "The List?"
It was a show where four "celebrities" would list their three favorites in some kind of musical topic, each of the panelists would veto one of the other choices and then the audience would vote for their favorites out of that list.

No La Roux
I can't believe nobody put (or maybe didn't know about) La Roux's "Bulletproof." It's like the perfect catchy 80s synth tune. A big hit in the UK over the summer when the awful Black Eyes Peas' ruled the charts over here, "Bulletproof" has a snappy attitude, strong vocals and a synth track that sounds like…

Well-plotted episode
I think this was one of the more well-plotted episodes of Glee. I'll admit the pregnancy pad thing was a bit forced, but there was some previous odd behavior and moments where Will seemed to almost get it in previous episodes (when Quinn suddenly came over last episode and the fact that Terri no…

Some good international picks
I appreciate the international picks: Luminita Gheorghiu and Samantha Morton in particular had great performances. But what about some other non-English roles. Penelope Cruz in Volver makes that movie with her twin expressions of sexiness and vulnerability. I also loved Remy Girard's…

They should get Jennifer Jankowski from Denver. Her Rioja and Bistro Vendome restaurants are freaking awesome.

Launch Party
Interesting that both rating and comments for the video have been disabled. I wonder why?

I though Chabon's description of the city was very evocative, perhaps even more so than his descriptions of characters. I mean what sense do you get of other Arthur or Jane or even Phlox outside of Art's meandering of her French major meanings? But I got a great sense of Pittsburgh from Art's point of view.

His father
I understood his father as being seen through Art's perspective and for me that worked. I had a friend in college whose lawyer father did some work for the mob and he only told people about it after his father was representing some Chicago-area mobsters in a somewhat high profile case. He really didn't…

Bad challenge
I agree with Amelie on this one. The early episodes should really have some crazy materials challenges. I mean do they have a contractual obligation to use Mood every episode or something? Here is what I think they should have done: Made everyone use items they find on the beach for a beachwear look.…

This station is so depressing. It used to be this great "Indie 101.5" station where you could hear Pixies and Public Image LTD. back to back instead of Warrant and Guns and Roses. It was basically the best station in town for the year or so that it was on even though it was transmitted on the far eastern fringes of…

What's your favorite Jayhawks song?
Mine is a close tie between "The Eyes of Sarah Jane" and "Blue." In the former I love the way Louris sings "Soooo still, so still," with the force of concrete. And Blue is almost devastatingly sad and beautiful: the perfect music for post-breakup depression in the way it…

Tim Gunn quote from the article about Malvin:
"When you see him, you won't believe he's from Colorado." Uh..Thanks Tim. Because us folk from Coloradee just wear potato sacks and cowboy boots for fashion, not like you fancy folks from those pretty coast states. So..uh is this a show about airplanes or something?