I'd trade Community S5 for Hannibal S2. That isn't a knock on Community so much as a symptom of the fact that Hannibal is probably my favorite new show of the last two years. I'd sacrifice the life of almost any show on TV right now for Hannibal season 2. (Maybe not Bob's Burgers or Parenthood or Game of Thrones, but…

That was really quite something. One of the best comedy TV episodes of 2013 so far.

True, but I'd be way more scared of falling down stairs than doing fight scenes. Especially the way he did it, with his foot overshooting the step and falling leg-first, and double especially at the near-top of a staircase. I've busted a knee making pretty much the same error. Just looking at the gif of him doing it,…

Haha, what the hell is James Wolk even doing on this show?

I'm curious to see what they're planning for that. I think maybe they've made an error not introducing Jeyne Poole.

I agree that everything after book 3 has been pretty fuckin' problematic, but I can't agree the Red Wedding was a mistake in and of itself. There's no reason the post-book 3 events needed to move so slowly. Dany could damn well be in Westeros with dragons and ice zombies on the invasion if GRRM had wanted it so. But…

If the basic outline for the original conception of the series as a trilogy was A Game of Thrones =  War of Five Kings, A Dance With Dragons = Dany's invasion of Westeros, The Winds of Winter = War against others/white walkers, that's pretty discouraging, because (SPOILERS) we're through 5 out of 7 books, and Dany…

I'm a fan of that adaptation choice. It's the sort of character-combining and streamlining that makes sense to me.

That would be the ominous example. The hopeful, ideal example would be Friday Night Lights season 4.

I can't really get behind "it's better to sell maybe a few dozen copies of your album by hand outside of your church than show a smidge of cleavage and have your album in stores and sell thousands" as a strong lesson or good advice. That just seems dumb. Like, if you ever bump into that dilemma, please, show the…

The end of this episode cemented why I like Scandal: They introduce something so big and potentially show-breaking (like Mellie revealing the truth in her interview) that, in most any other network drama, you'd assume by default there's no way it will actually happen, then they go through with it. In short, Scandal…

I see what you're saying, but, all the same… I'm willing to basically accept that Will is going to get involved in the action and face-to-face with bad guys in a way that a real crime scene analyst never would. It's a great TV show, but it's a still a TV show.

Amy Adams is in Man of Steel, which he is producer of.

If it got picked up by a cable network, I'd want them to do what DirecTV did when they picked up Friday Night Lights and not change a thing.

Yes. More or less every single shot in this show feels like it's been arranged with the care and artistry of a feature film. It's almost alien to see a TV show with cinematography like this.

That seemed like about 25 minutes (counting commercials) of a good and surprisingly high-stakes season finale, then, around when it hit the press conference scene, the episode anticlimactically shrugged its shoulders and went "well, that's a wrap," and I was thinking, shit, that was good stuff until there. That…

If you think that's irritating, just wait until the end of December when 99% of internet TV critics put it somewhere between #2 and #5 on their year-end best of 2013 lists! I, for one, look forward to hitting the near-end of every "Top 10 shows of 2013" list I read and going "Oh god, really?"

This show is freakin' fantastic. I'm already obsessively into its style and atmosphere and characterization and gorgeous cinematography and the sheer remarkable thoughtfulness of it. It's not only my favorite new show of 2013 but my favorite new show of the last two years. If not for Bunheads and The Legend of Korra,…

Intentional.

Scariest episode is still the mushroom-people, because, holy shit, motherfucking mushroom-people. But I'd put this second. This is definitely the best and truest horror show on television (since neither The Walking Dead or American Horror Story are scary or good).