@avclub-33807fbc68d335db8080d3c10cb78822:disqus Neutral is not pacifist.  Why does the Vatican have Swiss Guards?  Because they make the best mercenaries.

Mostly the "some I murder, some I let go" refrain.  And she's hardly subtle about her support for the Tamil Tigers, which are almost universally recognize as a terrorist organization.  Here's another Sri Lankan musician who's not such a fan: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

It's good to see traditional rivals continue to play even with conference realignment.  I'm a Mizzou grad and those crybabies who chose a terrorist organization as a nickname refused to continue the Border War in any sports after we escaped to the SEC. 

Have they worked out an agreement to keep playing the Holy War?  Last I heard, it would be going away for the foreseeable future. 

Perhaps the most important thing about that ASU-Stanford game is that the PAC-12 reprimanded the officials of ASU's last game, essentially saying they won a game they deserved to lose.  Also, this is not a great week in college football.

The only thing that dates Seinfeld is that many of the contrivances wouldn't apply today because of cell phones.  No Chinese Restaurant, no Bubble Boy, no The Movie, etc. 

@avclub-ebea2325dc670423afe9a1f4d9d1aef5:disqus Only the first season on The IT Crowd was filmed with a live studio audience.  And I'm sure the Big Bang Theory apologists among us would say it's better than most single-cam sitcoms.

The technology angle is typically only discussed on this site in passing ("all 13 episodes of Arrested Development at once, OMG!") but that's a big issue.  The advent of DVR and streaming really made the highly-serialized dramas more palatable because you were no longer completely lost if you didn't happen to be home…

"What's good these days is really, really good.  What's bad is some of the worst garbage ever."

Interesting thought.  I think the loss leader prestige cable drama is definitely a recent invention.  Could a show that didn't make money stay on the air (or cable, I guess) for seven years in the 90s?  I don't have any evidence of this, but I assume that it's a paradigm created on premium cable (i.e., HBO) to…

This was always my interpretation.  I wonder where Gus' mom is; did that ever come up?

Well, they could have changed the clunky things about the original.  The killer didn't have to be omniscient and omnipresent.  They could have delayed the reveal of the killer a little longer, played around a little more with some side characters.  If all of the rote components of the story were holdovers from the…

This is the worst thing M.I.A. has ever done.  That or being an apologist for terrorism and political violence.

I think there probably are some people around here that feel that way about The Middle. 

I hate the "I got a notice" meme, but I find this comment to be reliable and workhorse like. 

Also predictable: Parks and Rec gets beaten like a police dog training toy by Big Bang Theory in the ratings, and NBC moves them down to the slot formerly occupied by the corpse of Sean Saves the World.  Community once again goes head-to-head with one of the few true hits on TV, and we'll continue to wonder how well…

But after he makes them cry, he'll teach them how to improve their hotels. 

I find the unmitigated adoration for all things Lizzy Caplan to be tiresome. That probably colors my opinion of her unfairly.

Sometimes oozing self-importance is all it takes to win critics over.  That and being on premium cable. 

Leonard likes this comment.