Now I hope this happens.

Have I seemed… noncommittal?

Yes. I think he's, like, Night News Editor or something. He's basically the Baywatch Nights version of Sean O'Neal. (I may have just insulted both of them.)

Never judge a writer's potential to do television based on their film work. Film writing is so watered down by the process and studio notes that it becomes effectively meaningless.

Oh, also, this show basically predicts Hillary Clinton will be our next president.

What I like about the show is that society IS getting along. It's just doing so by trying to ignore this giant thing that happened, and the disconnect between the two is getting more and more pronounced for too many people. Which is something I find particularly easy to believe, particularly in this country.

I mean, it depends on what you don't like about Lindelof's work. If it's the mystery show stuff and how Lost and some of his movie work doesn't provide concrete answers, The Leftovers doesn't really give a shit about answers at all. If you like his skill with characters, you'll like the show. But if you find his…

a.) This is pretty markedly different from Lost from frame one. To expect any perceived structural flaws from that show to creep into this one is sort of nuts. Most of the complaints people had about Lost—like how it was ultimately a con job or whatever—are ridiculously moot here, because it's a completely different…

Lindelof not only served as showrunner, but he has co-writer credit on all of the first five episodes (the only ones we have writer credits for so far), so he's clearly Matt Weinering this shit.

I have a few more bylines coming up in the next few days, and then I have some banked interviews and a piece on Frank's Place that will trickle out over the summer. I think my last official byline will run in August? But, really, THIS IS IT.

He outed himself at the AV Club comedy fest celebration of commenters.

On the contrary: http://www.avclub.com/revie…

Standard caveat:

This is why of all of the criticisms of the TOE, the one I had the hardest time keeping my mouth shut about was, "Well, we all know Ozymandias is going to win, so this is pointless!"

This is a tough one.

The MTV Awards are ALSO a postmodernist deconstruction of the IDEA of "awards."

On the one hand, Mad Men is one of my favorite shows of all time.

I thought people would vote for the better standalones! We were all so innocent then…

Not YET…

I actually predicted Camille to face Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes in the finals, which shows you how little I understand my own staff.