There is! TNT's The Last Ship, coming this summer.

If you go back and look at the SNPP archives of message board reactions to the show, the viewers there went through this exact arc.

I would love to buy whoever runs this blog a drink.

I also follow him on Twitter! I think!

That's awesome!

This is interesting, because last month (I think?), I got into a conversation with Mark Harris on Twitter, who was telling me that this was his favorite season because it captured the gay male perspective so well. It was a thing I had never even considered, but I guess it's out there.

Nah. As mentioned, I talked to a bunch of critics who are still loving this season. And EW named it their number one show of the year!

I sometimes feel like this show really is made for people who genuinely believe all horror movies are bad because the only ones they've seen are "gritty" remakes of '70s classics produced by Michael Bay.

Then establish that earlier: Here is how things went once; here is how they're going now, because we have no order anymore. Or keep things vague. Don't try to impose order on them at this late date, because it will just feel like ass-covering.

I'll give the full season a grade next week. But individual installments of the show are so disconnected from anything like "logic" that I find it difficult to say what I really think.

You have literally seen all Anne Bonny does for four episodes: show up, say nothing, look vaguely mysterious.

Both GoT and Boardwalk carefully marshal resources for big setpieces near season's end. They are able to do a BIT more than most shows in this genre, but they definitely save up their funds.

I didn't have anyone deleted, as I don't have that power. The poster referred to himself as "Grey Man Writes," who's been banned from the site for a very long time (pre-dating me), and one of the tech folks noticed it.

Ah, they missed last week's, which I hoped they would pick up. Oh well.

No, they're dissecting my reviews every week. It's fine. It's nice to have a fanbase!

*shrug*

I don't really think of D&D as a "concept" episode, just as I don't think of a bottle episode as such. The concept episodes basically shove the series into a different genre and see what happens.

But that's just it: The iPod Nano is part of a random, running gag about the weird stuff that Pierce got for the others. It doesn't explicitly single itself out, unless you already know to look for it. And it's funny enough on its own, because who's going to give anyone an iPod Nano in 2014?

But that's just, like, a sitcom in season five. Expecting it to behave like a younger show is wanting an impossibility.

Also, I strongly disagree on fan service. This season has had moments that call back to previous episodes that don't call attention to themselves (as you may have noticed from how many of them I've completely missed). Fan service is, like, the show leaping up and down and waving back and forth, "HEY! LOVE ME! I KNOW…