Americans hype is pervasive, it's not an AV Club show. I've seen at least one (deserved, always) ebullient WATCH THIS SHOW NOW IT'S THE BEST piece in several national newspapers, The New Yorker, Grantland…

It isn't a typo.

A- is a coward's grade. You're right, the show is getting clunky, and this is one of the most glaring examples. Put your grade where your mouth is.

Seems like bad taste to include Fargo on this even with the spoiler warning. The fact that it is on the list in the first place is a spoiler.

For some reason my previous comment doesn't look like it posted. For one, knowing the film doesn't pass Bechdel basically tells you she doesn't talk to anyone at the end. The people who I saw it with would not have wanted to known that.

Knowing the film doesn't pass Bechdel basically confirms Stone doesn't get back to Earth and see humans. Knowing this in advance would've prevented at least half the people I went to see it with from seeing it. It's a spoiler, end of discussion.

That's not what they're doing though, they're basing it on how large of a network TBS is. $8,000 is a minimum fine which would, in the FCC's view, be appropriate for even a local channel.

It's patently absurd that they'd wear Union Jacks because they couldn't find English stuff. The English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish actively disdain the idea of their sides being combined in any way. If they couldn't find stuff with the English flag on it, they'd have just worn the red-and-white scarves they…

Apparently the writers of Mad Men don't either. That Lane and co. were wearing Union Jack apparel (when, apparently not-so-obviously, the Home Nations compete separately in association football and hate eachother's guts at it) is one of the show's biggest historical fuck-ups so far.

Actually, "Creep" has been played 182 times—most coming pre-1997, of course, but it's been played at least once in 2001, 02, 03, 04, 06, and 09—while "Meeting in the Aisle" was played for the 12th time last night, and the first since 1998. Additional note that all of the other 11 times it was played it opened the set…

And they think Kim Dotcom is a woman.

@avclub-c1393a6cb4e64215bbe3b6804a948e4e:disqus : It came out in early December and was 21st. I see no issue.

And it's not like he's an anomaly. Eminem, OutKast, Beyoncé, etc…

@avclub-b9a8f4af85454f7c56c06f0a39e7ec23:disqus : I'd agree, but release dates are tailored against that kind of thing anyway. "Rolling in the Deep" came out in mid-November of 2010—plenty of time to make an impact (in fact, it got votes in last year's Pazz & Jop). "Paper Planes" was released in August of 2007 and…

I've already made clear that I'm aware of the rules governing the almighty Pazz and Jop poll. I'm saying they suck.

In my opinion, a poll like this should reflect what was actually released in the year. There are plenty of reissues and stuff that were "everywhere in 2011" and obviously none of that should be on the poll.

Regardless of my personal feelings about either of those albums, undun had to have been severely hurt by being released so late in the year.

Now I know why @Discographies:twitter is so annoying.

Wait, no one's even commented that "Rolling in the Deep" was RELEASED IN 2010 yet???

Lulu had its followers. Did really well on The Wire's list.