I never bought into Dawn or the hospita to a great degree, but I thought this episode went a long way to redeeming it. She was no repeat of a megalomaniac villain like the Governor, but rather a sad and pathetic shell of him, ruling over scared people who were even more weak and pathetic. And I think that was the…

And where is NOF right now?

I do claim to be a ratings expert, and I can tell you that ABC and Disney are very unhappy with the ratings. Not cancel it unhappy (well, yes, cancel it unhappy, but they aren't going to cancel in any case), because they have way too much invested in this show and the Marvel Universe to give up yet, but they are…

I've heard a lot about DMZ. I have to check it out. I just put it on hold at my library, which appears to have the first 11 trades.

This shit would never cut it at Walmart and Pizza Hut.

If I may paraphrase a repulsive phrase from history, until recently I found the the two parts of the series (Davies vs. Moffat) to be equal but separate. They were different beasts, but they both had their joys, and I thought so highly of both that neither one provoked in me a desire to rank them against the other.…

So, now my log in does not work with Firefox. Nice move. Guess this is my last comment for a while.
Anyway, the ratings slide finally stopped with this episode. For the first time all year, ratings for last night did not go down, but rather they went up one-tenth of a point. They still suck, but it's at least…

Hey, the notification about comments at the top of the page——gone! Poof. And apparently replaced by nothing. Best I can tell, they want you to visit each individual page you commented on to see if there are any replies.

The convenient bar at the top of the TV Club that had links to all my shows——gone. Poof. The ability to click on the name of a show and get instantly linked to the page with all current reviews—-gone. Now you go to a page that has ever single article that even mentions the show, which could just be some fucking…

"Where's Carol?"

"You call them "zombies"? Well, that's just fuckin' weird. "Skin-eaters" is much better. But in our camp, we call them "Grrrr-arrrggers."

Well, just went to the TV Club page, and it is of course less functional. More scrolling required to find things that were right at your fingertips under the old design. Wow, it's hard to believe that after 20 years people still don't understand that pretty pictures that don't work as well is not a preferred design…

My mistake. The tabs are still there. So, at least you didn't screw that up like Slate did. But still, it's not as functional as it was, and it's far less intuitive. It still blows, even with the tabs I missed on first glance.

Hey, go ahead and write this off as being from an asshole who doesn't like change if you like, but if you just think about it for half a mo, you'll see that it makes sense.

It's actually not so difficult. The studio can subsidize the network by lowering the price of the show until the network can make money of off it. This has been done for years by studios in order to get that extra season or two to get to syndication. This is what Sony has been doing with Community now for a couple of…

Probably so, actually. AOS is a very expensive show. It was not greenlit to pull a rating in the 1's. Ditto for New Girl and Brooklyn, which are both in big trouble. The nets are not ready to start having their most expensive shows pull ratings lower than basic cable series. AOS has some leeway, as it can be kept on a…

Claiming a "tiny, little, almost insignificant" improvement not really the incentive to start watching again you may have thought.

Right, because pretty AND interesting is just impossible to do.

By the way, total viewership now (6.6 million) is less than The Walking Dead pulls in the demo. The cratering of AOS ratings has happened far faster than were even my most dire predictions after seeing those first two episodes. They have to be in wrist slashing mode over at Disney. I see a massive behind the scenes…

Man, I keep coming here every Wed looking for a reason to blow through the backlog of episodes on my DVR, and I keep coming away saying the same thing: maybe next week. At this point, I'm ready to just delete the lot. Grrr, Arrgh!