Goddamn, this is easily the worst show of the new season, it makes The Mysteries of Laura look like The Wire in comparison. I do love Jesse L. Martin but everything else here is as bad as humanly possible, nearly every scene ended with a line or a beat that had me groan/screaming and the soundtrack is oppressive and…

"I know who Bane is."

Yeah, I don't care about grades per se but B+ suggests a better-than-average episode and I agree that this was the worst episode since the first season. Even the action was terrible, at least that motorcycles driving back and forth in a parking lot scene.

San Francisco stopped being cool in 1991 when Amelia's became The Elbo Room. If you weren't there then I don't know what you're complaining about. Or maybe 1998, I hear it's gotten worse but it's been super yuppie-tech-centric since at least then.

Among people who break out as indie film writer/directors in their 20s, it's pretty standard. Nicole Holofcener's dad is also a fine artist. Obviously the Coppola kids and Tiffanie DeBartolo are on another level. There's Aranovsky, the Coens, Spike Lee and some others from less wealthy backgrounds but it's pretty…

That sounds a lot like Sonia's reaction to The Leftovers that sparked the freakout against her. I think both are valid, I can't tell you what you should have an appetite for and I think it's understandable but I'm also under no obligation to feel the same way. Anybody's story, told well, can be great.

Yeah, I like her stuff because it has a really strong point-of-view, I don't love it, I'm like a season-and-a-half behind, but it's always interesting. I would like to see other shows with different, equally personal, POVs that I like better or relate to more but there aren't many, or maybe any.

Man, this place is really going down the tubes. Asshole commenters can't even post their shitty puns on the right articles anymore.

I was definitely surprised that it wasn't Napoleon, which was my first instinct, but I know those wars were in the early 19th century, and he doesn't look 70 in his portraits. I wasn't certain it would be Washington but I was very surprised that all three got it wrong.

In Boston we had a Creature Feature, even a Creature Double Feature, which showed Universal, AIP, Hammer and Toho stuff but we missed out on the Ghoulardi/Count Floyd-style host.

I was an adult with my own apartment but it was still a big deal for me because I really didn't watch TV much at all in high school or college, The Simpsons, Get a Life and Twin Peaks were what got me back in the habit of watching TV shows regularly.

The thing that's weird to me now is that I was super into Batman and I never really noticed the huge disparity between the Adam West show and the Denny O'Neill/Neal Adams comic books that I loved so much. They couldn't be more different but it was all just Batman to me.

For me Starblazers was the same thing with the afternoon cartoons, although it only replaced reruns of Tom & Jerry and The Flintstones. But I hated it and I've held a grudge against anime ever since.

One of my best friends was super into Star Trek, he had an older brother old enough to have collected tons of toys from when it was still on, but as a kid I preferred Lost in Space. My mom was into Monty Python and she indoctrinated me, I doubt I would have found it myself.

I saw The Nude Bomb in the theaters twice, that was the peak of my Get Smart fandom. I had been really into The Munsters, Batman and Rat Patrol previously but Get Smart had the longest run in my after-school UHF rerun watching.

It made an impression on me too but I don't think I saw an episode between the ages of 6 and 21, I still remembered "uh oh chongo" and the outlines of it but it wasn't a perennial rerun.

I use a lot of Howdy Doody references in my other online personae but I've never seen the original, I mostly know the references from listening to 60s bubblegum music.

I think season 4 was an improvement over the end of season 3, but as with Gilmore Girls and The West Wing, my hopes that a show where I'd grown sick of the creator's tics would improve in his absence were again dashed here. Season 4 just seemed like a parody of Dan Harmon, season 5 was an improvement even if it was…

I hate this show but I do like some of the cast members, I'm really glad that Yvette Nicole Brown got out of this mess and I'd hate to see Brie and Jacobs spend a minute more than necessary on it.

I don't really get how people are so invested in the Ghostbusters, I do remember people freaking out when one of the critics here didn't love it but I don't know, it's good but I like all the other early Bill Murray hits better, and the Blues Brothers too.