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"What Goes Around" is even better. It's got just the right amount of broken and vindictive.

We're always saying how awesome Madeleine Stowe is as Victoria, but damn if it doesn't bear repeating. Her delivery of "Don't say a word" to Daniel was such a BAMF moment.

Well, yeah, she was very butch but, like you said, her look isn't a dealbreaker in our time like it would have been in the past. I'm a Lady Gaga fan so I was biased but I do think I would have hated that performance even if she had gone with something else. Oh well, different people, different strokes and all that.

I didn't get why the show was so hellbent on emphasizing Sarah Golden's UNCONVENTIONAL! looks that have hindered her career development etc. She looked just fine: a regular, average woman.  However, "You and I" was my favorite song of 2011 and she did a horrible job with it. I kept wondering if they were telling the

This episode was definitely an A in my book, so I was pretty surprised to find that a lot of people didn't care for it:

Since animated characters are game: Flynn Rider makes all flesh-and-blood guys look bad.

I actually think Fauxmanda's pretty likable. The actress is solid (not to mention gorgeous) and the character is certainly unpredictable enough to keep things exciting. It's her story arc I'm not interested in right now.

Charlotte is just so unbearably bland. There's nothing about her that feels remotely interesting. I don't hate her, but she bores me to tears. Now, Declan, on the other hand… He makes me wish that this show was on HBO so he could get a seriously gruesome, gory death scene. That is, assuming the writers of "Revenge"

I actually liked it, it was a pretty inventive and surprising choice and I thought he pulled it off.

It pains me to say this because I loved the first four years of "How I Met Your Mother" but this show has run its course and then some. This episode was the worst half hour of television I've watched the entire season.

Jennifer Coolidge is an automatic dealbreaker for me. I have yet to meet anyone who considers her even remotely funny, talented or in any way tolerable. How is it that she still gets cast (even on "2 Broke Girls")?

The thing is, she annoys me a lot more than her music does. I find her whole shtick insufferable (not to mention the fact that she clearly cannot sing outside a studio) but her debut album does have a few decent tracks. She's pretty much destined to be a one-hit wonder (born to fade away?) anyway, so the rest of the

First of all, I know that "Breaking Bad" fanboys worship everything related to that show, but Esposito was far from remarkable. In fact, the DRUNK! ACTING! in his opening scene was unintentionally hilarious at best. And his LUSTY! look at Regina in the end was somewhere between constipation and barely contained

The Clyde character may be the single most unbearable presence on television right now. Each time Ben Schwartz opens his mouth in "House of Lies", I want Doug to finally snap and brutally murder him.

Actually, that is the only way to make that episode bearable. That, and Emma Caulfield being onscreen for three minutes.

Second time I'm responding to one of your posts today, but I tend to agree with everything you're saying, so yeah… Not sure if Bonnie/Elijah will do the trick but she absolutely needs to get crazier. They need to pull a Dark Willow with her; could be a lot of fun.

It feels like Katherine's always a bit underused, but maybe that's because she's so insanely awesome. Still, I'll never forgive the writers for promoting Season 2 as "The Year of Kat" and then placing her on the back burner for the second half.

I wasn't calling the scene brilliant, just Bell's performance in it. Which is part of why I'm saying she deserves better roles: She tends to do a great job with material that is, like you said, just OK.

I don't know. I thought that, when she tried to get them to stay, she was genuinely trying to sell them on the whole thing, doing her best to appear welcoming. If all she wanted was for them to obey her, she could have just had them captured. Besides, she eventually let them get away and seemed perplexed - if not

Her regular TV gigs since "Veronica Mars" have been on Heroes, Gossip Girl and now House of Lies… And if we're counting one-episode appearances like you did in your post, she's also done The Cleveland Show. Not to mention the steaming pile of rom-coms she's starred in since "Forgetting Sarah Marshall".