I think she's had a fair amount of successes. Of the top of my head: fleecing tourists in Art Crawl, being the successful ringleader in the Kids Rob a Train, getting her bunny ears back and scaring the crap out of Logan in Earsy Rider when she called in the favor to the biker gang.

I missed this article when it was first published and only came across it today. And Sean, I'd just like to say that I've always loved your writing and you've made me laugh a lot over the years and I'm glad you were able to survive such a hard time in your life.

I understand why you might want to change the comments—but I think of myself as a pretty loyal reader of the AV Club and in my mind the comments below an article are part of the AV Club reading experience. I'd say the articles, no matter how good they are, account for about 60% of what the AV Club means to me and the…

I felt the exact same way in season 1 when their first date went so badly—I thought he was just going to be a random 2 episode guy and I was so happy when they got together again in 1x04.

I feel like such a chump because I only discovered this series on DVD recently (after seeing Weekend and loving it and seeking out Andrew Haigh's other work) and it was so good! I agree that the movie wasn't the best format to wind up a TV show (Really, HBO, you couldn't have sprung for a final 8 episode series?) but…

I actually hated that scene so much because it was such a lame attempt to replicate male scatological comedy tropes in a female-driven comedy. I don't need to see a comedy with women in it that has the exact same sense of humor and POV as a Harold and Kumar or Farrely brothers film. We already have plenty of that…

Yeah, I think getting promises of new, future release dates that blow by with no explanation is the best we can hope for.

This is the first season I watched in real time and I don't think it's declining at all. Nothing will quite match the level of season 3, but there were definitely a few certified classics this year (like every year).

This was a good articles but I think it left out a large component of the issue: power and money. I don't watch The 100 so I don't know what went on there, but I've been a fan of Shameless for a while and even before season 5 aired there were many in the fan community who didn't like Showtime appropriating the…

Thank you! I thought I was having some sort of mental event because I
remembered her saying that it was David Geffen a few years ago but this
article didn't mention that.

Totally agree. I just cannot deal with Steven Moffat's episodes any more. I haven't connected with anything he's written in about a season or two. His version of DW is all just a bunch of stuff that happens. And there'll be 10 good ideas brought up and discarded within the space of an episode combined with witty…

Seasons 2 and 3 both have very strong points (the last few eps of season 2 are really emotionally affecting and there's a lot of good stuff in season 3, too). Season 4 was just terrific throughout. But season 5 was terrible terrible terrible and doesn't even seem to have internal logic (storylines appear and…

Except Barney was funnier and somehow a much more tragic character (I use past tense cause I haven't watched the last ten seasons of The Simpsons so I don't really know how he's written now). Frank is just irritating.

This episode wasn't the best, but David Lee coming back made me so, so happy.

Literally the worst 2 episodes of RTD's tenure. It's so sad, too, because the episode right before that (Waters of Mars) was awesome and then all of a sudden everything just goes completely wonky for DT's last story.

But why does children's tv have to be all happy-happy? Life does often suck. I've been thinking about this since I started working at a library this year—we have all these books and movies and etc. designed for kids and most of them present a false picture of the world. The world isn't kind and there are very few…

Ah, the old, "if you don't like it you can turn it off" response to anyone who criticizes something. Always appreciated. Because, of course, if someone doesn't entirely and unreservedly approve of a TV show they should never watch it again.

Oh my god—yes, exactly. In Moffat's world the Doctor will never fail and that lessens the show. If the Doctor always saves the day it's kind of pointless—there are no stakes. In RTD's version, the Doctor was often faced with no-win scenarios (the Time War, Pompeii, the Waters of Mars) and the point was that…

RTD never gets enough credit for bringing back the show in such a way that it still WAS Doctor Who, but that it also didn't put off new viewers. If he had started out all inside baseball from the get-go, the show wouldn't have the viewership it has now.

I sort of wished it had been written by Paul Cornell.