It's not especially irregular for teen dramas to rotate love interests in roughly this way. It's more notable when they don't, actually.

That's a good point. They were better integrated with the rest of the cast (same for Travis too). It'd be nice if they could work on that for future love interests. Not Jace, though. Get that tool off the show.

Yes.

Co-signed. I was utterly baffled how such a repetitive and glacially-paced show garnered the kind of praise The Americans did. By the season finale its episodes were routinely sitting on my DVR for about a week before I summoned the energy to get around to them. Hannibal, in contrast, grabbed every inch of my…

The worst episode of Hannibal is better than the best episode of The Americans. In my humble opinion.

Real talk: This was the best debut season for a TV drama since Game of Thrones in 2011, and the best debut season for a network drama since Friday Night Lights in 2006.

The Bracebridge Dinner is one of my favorite episodes of the show. It might be my favorite episode Daniel Palladino has written for any series.

Maybe I'd hate Tristan the most if he had as much screentime as Logan, but as it stands, Logan is arguably the all-time grand prize winner for the Main Cast Member I Hate the Most in a Show I Otherwise Love Award.

Alive and well, baby. Just more a skimmer than a poster here. I'm active in the Hannibal and Switched at Birth reviews.

Best: Ratatouille. Their masterpiece, and one of my top ten movies of '00-'09. Beautiful, weird, moving perfection from top to bottom, without a single moment that's less than great. There's no question. One of the best animated movies ever. Can watch it anytime. Wonderful, wonderful film.

Up is one of the few films I can think of where I don't think I've ever spoken to someone who professed disliking it.

She still has the stink of The Host on her, but I guess there'd be worse things. She was pretty cool in Hanna.

Shit, he makes King Joffrey look good.

The first one is probably their way of saying "a Jennifer Lawrence-in-Hunger Games type," so that's not a bad guess.

Understandable.

I could be projecting here, but I was always under the impression that the majority of the AV Club was in their twenties.

You burn down the storage unit?

Well there goes the biggest reason to keep watching this show. I'd be super-bummed out if it was a show I had any particular emotional investment in. I'll probably still keep watching, though, because the fleeting Connie Britton moments that remind me of Mrs. Coach every few episodes are like crack to me.

There's a ton of pretty fascinating stuff in there that didn't make it into the final series. Like the auto shop being the freaks' home base, to give one example of dozens. I'd love to read a similar document for other shows.

More on point with this episode, it was just about 7 years later that NBC was all about showing depressing lower-class home lives of teenagers on Friday Night Lights. All I can imagine changed in that time is that they decided to grow up a little and get with the times.