I think you need to read this review instead of jumping down to comments to complain.

The first six seasons of 24 predate TV Club's existence. It came into being in the fall of 2007.

My complaint is actually the opposite: The overt social commentary gets in the way of the escapist action fun—not to mention the fact that the social commentary is inherent already in the Jack Bauer character and is best expressed that way.

Yes! Love that book.

They're skipping some hours here and there.

I pretty heavily edit my questions. Nobody is here to read me ramble.

What he said is what's in the transcript. I cut Freddie's name from my question.

I asked him about Freddie as part of the question about Will being a killer but just cut it for space.

You are reading between my lines correctly.

This is often how we handle cable comedies, especially sketch ones. We did so with Amy Schumer, and we did so with Nathan For You. That gives the show time to build a fanbase, so it doesn't start out here with really, really low readership that puts it in threat of the reviews being pulled.

Probably. Not sure how yet.

These sorts of sketch shows generally have lower readership, yeah, and Review was also on a night where we cover a LOT of other stuff. (I suspect if it had been on, say, Wednesday, we would have done at least a few drop-ins.) But our aim is not to delegitimize; our aim is to cover every show in the best way it CAN be…

We liked the show and it will almost certainly figure into our top TV list in a big way. But we opted against reviewing it. Not reviewing a show weekly does not mean that we think it's a bad show.

The magic of electronic mail!

Americans is closing in on adding over 150% in audience share on DVR, and FX clearly doesn't give a shit about the live numbers. I think it's weird to hold that up as a metric of the show's "failure" when it's much easier to look at its massive success on DVR, where it rivals most of FX's other dramas (outside of the…

The Sopranos. By a country mile.

The Sopranos. By a country mile.

This has been noted many times by myself and others. Because (as with most publications) there's a wall between editorial and advertising, I don't know if it will be fixed. Sorry!

I have not seen it, but I have heard from people I trust that Halt And Catch Fire is really good.

It absolutely does. That's why comedy doesn't travel well either. It's so culturally specific.