I think Shaun is the best genre send-up and has the most fast-paced, mechanical plot (not a dig). But Hot Fuzz is my favorite all-around of the three. It almost feels subdued compared to the other two. Quiet, smothering country town with a dark side, but less over the top than TWE and, like others have pointed out, I…

Completely agree. I love love loved Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, but I was also hoping (and expecting, like a damn fool) a low-key comedy.

Exactly what I thought. I thought the movie would have worked swimmingly without any of the robot stuff. I was actually really getting into it as a "normal" film.

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are personal favorites of mine and *I* was shocked. Mostly because I'm an idiot.

@avclub-51425b752a0b402ed3effc83fc4bbb74:disqus  Very interesting thought, re TWE being more about Andy than Gary. Sort of in the same vein as The Shawshank Redemption, which I think is more about Red than about Andy (which may not be a controversial opinion on AV Club, but is elsewhere).

He is *actually* good these days. His old standup was mostly bad but he was good when I saw him in 08 in Ft. Lauderdale (shady venue, lots of handlebar moustached men wearing tanktops). His two sons played guitar and drums during the intermission. Funny though.

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@avclub-f62296b9393b6ab9229ebde91ed8469f:disqus I've got your restraining order right here! Restrain this!

Never read Thought Catalog. Incidentally, it's where I first came across Ryan Holiday (spare yourself). Apparently, he reads books, and tells people about them once a month. Fucking wow.

You must teach me. The advanced copy thing.

Showtime just seems to drop the ball on every goddamn good show they pick up. I remember being blown away by the first season of Homeland. I don't think I had ever seen something that good on Showtime before. And then the second season went and sort of got Dexter-weird.

Yeah. It took me a while to really respect how hard it is to actually make a decent piece of mindless entertainment, not just an art piece. I'm sure there were some good genre writers out there who could have pulled this out. If I ran this show post-season 6, I'd fire the entire writing staff and hire, Wire-style,…

I agree. Season 6 was The Room bad. This season is just mediocre. There's also the fact that we knew that Season 6 wasn't the last season, and hopefully they could pull it out after.

Dexter was weird though. It started as a sort of dark subversion of a network procedural and then…sort of just became one. It was never better than your run of the mill crime procedural (except a couple of seasons) minus the interesting premise (and man they even managed to make that seem lame over the years).

With Masuka. Please please please Masuka.

Holy shit, Ghost Gus plus that Gomey stripper plotline *would* Dexter-ify it.

The cover art is the shit. How do you people read books so fast? Maybe I tend to luxuriate over books I enjoy, or maybe I am just afraid to start long books because I hate the feeling of being in the middle of some huge thing for a couple of weeks.

Welp, I was about to cancel my preorder and get The Infatuations instead (goddamn budgets) but this book apparently just shipped. I guess I'll just nut up and re-600 pages???? What the shit?

Toss in the season 7 finale if you want to watch the 6-seasons-too-late murder of everyone's least favorite character.