That scene with Don and Joan was amazing, one of the best in the series, but it also highlights why season 5 was one of the most disappointing seasons for me. I wanted more of my favorite characters interacting, and there was very little Don/Joan or Don/Peggy or Roger/Joan or Don/Roger compared to previous seasons. S5…

"The Suitcase" would like you to shut the door and have a seat.

This is exactly right. I think MM and Sopranos are great shows, but I prefer the emotional engagement I feel when I watch BB and The Wire. I find the characters in MM and Sopranos interesting, but I don't really care what happens to them and I need that to genuinely love a show.

English Patient has the edge over Quiz Show for me, but it's an argument I'm happy to lose. His hotness in this era will forever keep him on my list of 5.

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I completely agree. I don't dispute anything Todd is saying, so I guess it comes down to personal preference about what one wants out of a show. Maybe it's because I have enough stress and conflict in my daily job, but I don't want Parks to change. It is the one show I still want to watch live every week just because…

Probably because of the recent article about it, but my first thought when I saw this title (besides Twin Peaks) was Dollhouse's The Attic. Just an amazing episode of television.

I would put Epitaph One in my top five favorite episodes of a Whedon show.

That's the crazy thing. I get that Dushku is essential because she's the reason the show happened at all, but her one-noteness is even more glaring next to the incredible versatility of the actors around her. This is one of the few shows where I ended up loving almost all the supporting characters and never cared at…

Seriously. It's tragic that Gjokaj, Acker—and I would add Alexis Denisof—aren't in more things that make use of their talents.

If they gave out Emmys for playing the most punchable characters, Vincent Kartheiser would win them all. And I mean that in the best possible way.

I know it is in no way a great show, but I found the later seasons of Smallville much improved over the dreck of the middle seasons. After it moved past the high school melodrama of Lana and focused on the JLA in S8-10, it was a much more fun show with a great ensemble cast.

The WTF-ness of S4 made it probably my favorite season of anything Whedon after Firefly. Sure it was flawed, but I loved the unpredictability of it. And it had the best Wesley. 

After the last season of Breaking Bad, I had to try banana bacon cookies. I found a recipe online and they came out more like muffin tops, but still, pretty good.

I hear you on soaps. The nostalgia factor is high for me because I remember watching them regularly with my grandmother. I lucked out a few years ago and found an internet source who had transferred late 80s Days of our Lives storylines onto DVDs and the quality was surprisingly good. But I'm sure a studio released…

There are two shows I've liked enough to own bootlegged copies of since they are not available for sale on DVD: Homefront, the 1991 post WWII drama starring Kyle Chandler and John Slattery and a bunch of other familiar faces. The other is Stark Raving Mad, a one season sitcom with Neil Patrick Harris and Tony Shalhoub…

I also saw that as an unsubtle way to have an outsider ask "What else is there left to find?" which was a valid question on the audience's mind since "Closure" and by the end of "Requiem" we had a new answer.

@avclub-33c0b11e200dd2f9b60e169fe58b08cc:disqus Ugh, I think that terminal illness was the worst, most pointless retcon I've ever seen on TV.

I get the reason they decided to go that direction, but I don't think it was a good decision. Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't imagine that those who'd stopped watching earlier and tuned in for the finale felt satisfied with it. And those who had suffered all the way to the end deserved better. There were a few nice…

I'm a sucker for shows that reward faithful viewing, so I really loved all the nods to the pilot in Requiem too. (And also one of the reasons I dislike the series finale—all that exposition). The X in the road, and even the returning characters were nice callbacks. And let's face it, since it was clear by this point…