A Newsradio in reverse.

North Dakota is currently destroying itself for "energy." Fuck North Dakota!

That's always been my philosophy, but plot summary also provides a kind of structural rigor. Even if I say, "In the B-plot, Jeff and Annie went looking for a quiet spot to fuck," that's introducing a new line of discussion and reorienting the reader's mind on that particular plotline. So I think maybe some of that is…

I think that's a big part of it, because when people say they're "missing" what came in the solo reviews, the only thing I can think of is plot summary, which we're doing much less of.

Yeah, we're gonna phase out the transitions as best we can. I suspect it will always be there with Sonia and I, because we have that kind of working relationship, but if you look at the last transition in this week's Fargo review, we'll be moving more toward that.

I genuinely have no idea what's going on anymore, but I am glad you are having fun!

TV Roundtable incorporates even more voices and responds solely to episodes that are in the past. (It used to be it was only episodes TV Club had never covered, but we've eased up on that.) TV Club Crosstalks are for episodes that have immediately finished airing. And Roundtable is also loosely organized around a…

Yes.

This is interesting, because I think this COULD work really well for SNL. It's worth a thought!

I don't live in a leftist bubble; I live in a bubble where I only know what to think because of the teevee.

The first writer every week starts (and we alternate from week to week). And, yeah, we just e-mail a document back and forth.

Yeah, it's my gut feeling they probably wouldn't work for a comedy. But maybe a comedy (or team of writers) will come along and prove us wrong!

Hey, guys:

Mad Men is going to be the hardest to shift, because we, by necessity, have to do it live. (Honestly, that's the primary reason we're doing a crosstalk there—dividing up the labor saves somebody from having to put in a really late night.) But I AM having trouble figuring out what it is that people are missing in this…

Wow. Someone who uses Pajama Boy as an insult. I feel like Santa Claus when he realized the walking, talking M&Ms really did exist.

Hey, the nature of the beast is going to be wildly variable quality. But Sonia, Erik, and I work diligently with our writers to help them identify potential problem areas and bring things up to a particular baseline. I think you'll see that articles in 2014, while not perfect, are a damn sight more consistent than…

Maybe! But that's already what we're trying with Mad Men (because we DON'T have screeners there, and Sonia and I have to fit writing about it in around other shows), and the most consistent complaint I've seen is that it becomes too "conversational" over there, largely BECAUSE of the back and forth. So I honestly…

I said somewhere it was a piece-moving episode, and I stand by that. There are a few places where the mechanism of getting the characters into place for the season's endgame is a little ratchety.

Genevieve and I could end every review by chanting, "USA! USA! USA!" so you know that we're good patriots if it would help.

There are a surprising number of people who don't like The Americans!