She's entering her experimental phase.

Not all that much, due to work, but Brooklyn 9-9, American Dad, and Survivor's Remorse (it's really good) are my comedies (EDIT: and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver of course), and The Affair, Parenthood (going to end soon :( ), HTGAWM, and Doctor Who are my dramas.

She's just so good in Treme. So, so good.

Amy Sherman-Palladino. Need to get back into the Palladinoverse please thank you.

Le Guin. Yes.

This sounds surprisingly decent. I'll have to take a look (probably on DVD or something).

Wilson totally owns the pilot. West is good (and so are Jackson, Tierney, Julia Goldani Telles, that kid from The Lego Movie, etc), but Wilson is tremendous.

This was my favourite pilot of the fall, by some stretch. Fantastic.

I would agree with this wholeheartedly. I love Pynchon, but not a fan of Vineland at all, for very much these reasons.

It's my favourite Vonnegut. I love that book so much.

Books I read recently: a bunch of Daphne Du Maurier (Rebecca, The Frenchman, Jamaica Inn, a list which is also ordered in terms of how much I liked them - excellent, very good, not that great), Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, which was fantastic and much more melancholy than I anticipated, James Joyce's A…

man, I wish I were cooooooooooool. I'm just doomed to spend my life coooooooooool.

Shameless is a fun exception to that rule: third season was better than first or second, fourth was better than third.

:( I would check youtube also - Showtime has a habit of tossing shows on there (I remember watching the first ep of MoS when it began)

Showtime put the pilot up On Demand (spoiler: it's fantastic) so if you want it sooner, you can get it sooner.

Yeah, there's a lot of Pertwee in Capaldi's performance (though perhaps a bit darker, which suits modern television in general). I really dig it.

Also Judy Dench and Ben Daniels and Andrew Scott and Adrian Dunbar (holy hell, what a cast again!)…

Yup. Had same experience, and on every rewatch have started crying there too.

Oh, yes, this. I've rewatched that episode several times and each time I tear up.

I first read "Never Let Me Go" on train rides to and from work. When I was nearing the end, I was basically sobbing softly in the quiet car of the Metra. Very awkward.