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No. Three out of over three dozen current shows are being covered in this way (four if you count Game Of Thrones, but you really shouldn't). We just think the format lends itself to certain shows and are trying it out on those.

Well, he's the person I base all of my decisions upon, so we're in for a rough few months.

Yeah! I wanted to make a screencap of it from the movie, but I was in a coffeeshop writing this and didn't have my DVD handy.

Man, and after that guy last week was all upset at how many shows I review, I figured you'd all be thrilled.

I rewound this a bunch of times to make sure that's what she was saying (since it's an odd thing for a teenager to say), and I am 99 percent certain of it.

What on Earth? I'm not the person who makes these decisions, nor am I even close to the people who make those decisions. In my job as editor of a TV section, I've written about why networks should give anthology dramas another shot, covered perhaps the best anthology drama of all time on an episodic basis, and

If I ran a TV network, I would pick up an anthology drama in a heartbeat. But I don't. I'm just trying to explain the reasoning behind why such things haven't happened.

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The problem with this is that the primary reason to do an anthology drama (particularly with a continuing cast like The Richard Boone Show) is to attract prestige, because the expense of it is probably not going to offset the fact that it is unlikely to be watched. And if a network in the U.S. is chasing prestige, the

Basically, you'd have to find a way to do it on the cheap, because the biggest thing standing in the way of anthology shows right now is that they're expensive to produce, as studios increasingly don't have access to major backlots like they did in the '50s and '60s. So it would almost have to consciously be like a

Girls is one we might consider doing this with in the future, actually. Though, that said, as much as I love the show, I don't know if there's enough there. And I'd hate to step on Grantland's toes, as they do the double reviewer thing on that show.

Nah. We never let page view decisions entirely dictate content we publish in TV Club. But it certainly doesn't hurt if we're thinking about doing something and know it will be popular with readers.

Next week, Sonia will be doing this AND Good Wife live, and I will be doing this AND Game Of Thrones. Pray for all of us.

No, I missed that I'd typed Dawn twice, even when you reposted it. I fixed it.

All office supplies are community property.

Well, we've tried 'em on a variety of shows now, and they always do well, even compared to previous numbers on the show. We're not going to do this for every show. Some shows will benefit from having the reviewer switch off every other week, like we do on Archer and used to do on Agents Of SHIELD. But some shows have

How ISN'T the Golden Girls about death? It's the tension that underlies every scene on that show. Yeah, it's a light sitcom, but it's all about people who are on the cusp of being gone forever, and it lets that inform it fairly often. As for the other, I get why people were upset by that, but it was blown way out of

Bah. Right.

You probably won't believe this, but these are FAR more structured than my old essay reviews, which were mostly written off the cuff and in a blind panic. Sonia and I e-mail back and forth to decide who's going to talk about what and what's going to lead into what to build the best possible argument for how we felt

Intentionally so! I'm explaining why it said so much about the characters in that moment, just by quoting it.