I kinda love the LA subway system. People act so shocked when they learn it exists, like we're cavemen who haven't mastered fire yet.

I'm only looking out for your sanity, as mine regularly cross the 2,000 word mark.

This is really, really, really not what this film is about. It seems like it's going to be, but then everything TURNS, and it's brilliant and beautiful.

Please never read one of my reviews.

It's PROBABLY in my 11-20 slot, as are Mad Men and Girls. Love all three shows and loved what they did in 2013, but they just weren't as immediate to me as the ones in the top 10.

It was a really, really good year for television. Shows that would have easily cracked my top 10 last year are in my 20-30 range this year.

The Americans has already been on this list but seems to be the show the most people missed for whatever reason.

I absolutely do not think any showrunner anywhere should be taking advice from me or any other critic. They should do their own thing.

She was never a regular, even though she was in nearly all of the episodes, so Masters didn't have exclusivity on her. It's a pretty typical thing for new cable dramas to start with very small casts of regulars and bump a bunch of people who WOULD be regulars on a network drama down to guest stars, but it's always a…

As Sonia alludes to in her piece, Bob's actually WON our preliminary poll and would have been named the best show of 2013 if we had just based it on that (the thought of it made me a little gleeful, even though I didn't know what I would write about it). It lost both of its round robin matches to the top two shows,…

You will want to wait for my Salon list, which includes Hannibal!

The ratings aren't great, but the season finale had better ratings than the season premiere, which is always a good sign. This was always going to be a slow burn.

Yep. Michelle Ashford talks a little about this in my interview with her.

This was very much a consolation prize, because it was close between OITNB and the other show that beat it out for the top three. So one of the other shows could be a new show. I realize that sounds confusing as all get out, but we wanted to honor OITNB for coming so very, very close.

I didn't think it was weaselly at all while talking to her, though I can see how it reads that way. My impression of things while talking to her was that she was a person who really tried to see things from every angle (which is very evident in the show), and she was talking through all of those angles after I asked…

Reading between the lines I sort of felt like she was talking about the Libby stuff, particularly since she has to service the Libby character for the run of the show, while she can ditch some of the others.

No. It looks like Disqus had a freakout and ate a bunch of comments all over the site.

The other two season finales of the show have employed unusual, more reflective structures. This is very much in keeping with what the show does.

To others. Particularly when Carrie's all, "TAKE ME TO JAVADI!"

Meredith Stiehm was brought onto the show about a month ago, and she gets script credit for tonight's episode, so it's entirely possible they wanted to tie into current events.