Nope. Not saying he's gay. You'll notice that whole stray was about how either way they go with this, it could make for a really cool storyline, dependent on the show remembering this is happening.

NaNoWriMo thread for 11/15-11/16

My management company has daily training sessions for anyone who can attend, and I usually go, because it's a great respite from other stuff and a fun way to think creatively. But I thought I would share one of the challenges with you guys.

One thing I forgot: Watch that scene where Adam and Kristina argue about whether to tell Heather about Bob and Amber in front of Heather, and try to imagine it from Heather's perspective. Adam seems like an insane street person, ranting at clouds.

Most regular TV features will be taking the month off, too, with the exception of a 100 Episodes tied to a prominent DVD release.

I generally agree with you. But I've heard a lot of critics argue the exact opposite persuasively, so it's not as if A.A. Dowd arrived at this out of nowhere.

As mentioned in the review, one is an unaired holdover, but the other three are all brand new.

I mean, it's not exactly an unusual opinion that Payne is making fun of the main character of that short (and makes fun of stupid Midwesterners in a lot of his movies). I don't necessarily agree, but it's an argument a LOT of critics have made.

Compare this to a Chuck Lorre sitcom, where the audience is mic'ed so heavily that EVERY JOKE gets the sort of laugh the greatest joke ever told would get, and this seems positively revolutionary. Some of the jokes don't do so well, and the ones that do, I can usually tell why, even if I don't like them.

My original lede there was "at four seasons old," but I guess someone in editorial thought that sounded weird. Oh well.

I'm more referring to the episodes I've seen from season four, which are decidedly the sorts of things you would expect this show to do, executed very well.

Nope. I have a couple of bosses.

Sure, but that doesn't mean my thoughts are somehow fundamentally altered on the show. I posted a link to my season one review of the pilot from when it aired (I reviewed the show on my personal blog), and my basic thoughts were very similar to what I wrote last week. TV Club Classic is so great because it…

We haven't had that option for several years now. I mean, technically, we COULD give that grade, but we'd get in trouble with the higher-ups.

I expect at least five of these a week.

Yes. If this were a show we had never covered that was receiving its first coverage in TVCC (like if, God forbid, it had been canceled after season one), then I wouldn't be grading.

As someone who has written headlines for both print and web, I don't think that headlines are "click-bait" so much as just headlines. It is murderously hard to summarize a complicated argument in a handful of words.

I didn't want to have to put on a shirt.

Considering I've been doing it in TV Club Classic for four years now, I wish you had said something!

Good lord, I knew who Burt Reynolds was, if only from Evening Shade. I just hadn't seen a couple of the specific movies being referenced in that episode!