Simon Russell Beale is just wonderful.

Yes. The Hainish books all act as standalones - there's no real "series" in that it contains info you need to know. Actually, IIRC, The Left Hand of Darkness actually is the one with useful exposition. You can completely read without having read any other Le Guin and, to be honest, I like it as a starting point. :)

Well, Tehanu and Tales from Earthsea as well in the Earthsea canon (the whole point of Tehanu is to look back at a series where female characters tend to be largely absent [there are almost none in A Wizard of Earthsea and The Farthest Shore, to quote Le Guin herself] and IT IS BRILLIANT), but yeah. I think Rocannon's…

I feel like if I designed a kids show, it would look something like a blend of this and Phineas and Ferb (maybe I just like referential kids shows?). Really liked this show as a kid. Clarissa was awesome and weird and hilarious and, watching the ep, getting those same reactions, so I guess it doesn't age badly either.

ABC Family loves to play that movie and I always find myself watching it when it is on

I'm in the same boat. Very disappointed at the reviews, but it's Katims, so I will watch.

I agree. The Parenthood pilot was pretty clunky (understandably), but the rest of season 1 was basically the same show as it would continue to be. This is a good thing, mind.

Try your hand with Indian TV news channels. Every single channel (except NDTV sometimes) is a series of people yelling and trying to rip apart the people they are interviewing.

Oh man, I'm so glad that exists. I've been wanting to do a Damages-Scandal crossover for ages.

Keegan Allen comes on screen. My friend next to me, who has never seen a PLL episode, says, after his *first* line read "that guy can't act at all."
- pretty much every episode of PLL, except small portions of this one

For me, there are some pretty good Cybermen stories in the run of the show (I'm thinking "Earthshock," of course, and "Silver Nemesis," which I really like, though give me Seven/Ace and I'm happy), but your description as "different in every appearance" is pretty spot-on. It's a pity, because there can be pretty…

Still ever-so-slowly working my way through DeLillo's Underworld. Almost finished!

Yeah, I am <.< It was definitely amateurish (which I would label "charming" but w/e) and sometimes very unfunny, but I thought they toed the line of both making fun of/mocking celebrity culture (and the way in which we engage with it) and totally engulfing themselves in it, and I think that's the way a lot of us…

Sadly it is gone now

I actually liked Nikki and Sara Live a lot. It was weirdly entertaining, occasionally strange and surrealist, and just a whole lot of fun.

It's really, really difficult to get into, yeah.

YES

Some of the best stories are actually national security stuff. I'm partial to "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" personally.

Yup, my favourite scene in the episode (as I mention upthread)!

So I had just watched the Jeremy Brett version of the same episode right before this one (since I wanted something canonically pure to compare this with and I didn't have my Sherlock Holmes book sets) and my favourite scene in this episode of "Sherlock" had to be when the homeless guy came in with DVDs with the same…