I probably didn't buy the train robbery as an actual realistic depiction of crime (i.e. if it had been in The Wire it would have been a series-ruiner for me), but I DID buy it and love it as grand, operatic pulp, which is what I've pretty much always viewed BB as since Walt walked coolly away from an explosion without…

I won't tell you what to like or not to like or whatever, but I will say that I promise knowing that doesn't ruin many, many surprises and twists and searingly powerful moments still to come. Actually, it's one of the LESS surprising things in the last 3 or 4 episodes.

I don't hate it or anything, and I liked a few of the staging choices… but I didn't feel like it really justified its existence either. Much Ado has already been done onscreen before, and better, and not that long ago.

I know right? Best Die Hard movie since Speed in 1994.

I saw a lot of Disney influence in this episode - not just the obvious Beauty and the Beast homages, but also the demon's song was very much akin to the "Friend Like Me" sequence from Aladdin.

As mentioned above, Bob's Burgers, Enlightened and Breaking Bad seem like a pretty good bet for the top lineup. In which case I am of course already prepping my "BUNHEADS WUZ ROBBED!!!1!" protest post.

Movies from 2013 I would watch/have watched again (alphabetical): Captain Phillips, Frozen, Fruitvale Station, Iron Man 3, Spring Breakers, White House Down, The World's End

He most definitely is.

Episode grade: B+
Season 3 grade: B-

Um… whoever wrote that Friday Night Lights entry needs to rewatch the season 4 finale. JD McCoy is absolutely, 100%, unambiguously the Panthers QB in the climactic East Dillon vs. Dillon game.

As I understand it, the problem there was having to work around his shooting schedules for Argo, Flight and Trouble With the Curve. I think Michael K Williams' sporadic appearances were also due to scheduling issues.

This article brought back some great memories of Christmas 2001, when I found underneath the tree a brand new Gamecube along with Super Smash Bros Melee, Pikmin, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron and, I think, a spare controller. While video games normally went on the TV in this side room at the end of the house (and the…

My favorite thing this year was Spartacus: War of the Damned, which was a ten-hour tribute to how fearless, visually ambitious, breathlessly-paced and endlessly thrilling, achingly emotional, in command of both the most epic and most intimate moments, and just plain badass TV can be if someone with the vision of Steve…

Looks awesome. I like that the first trailer from a couple days back was about "here's the emotional stakes and the character journey" while the one complements that with "and here's Community being big and weird and creative and ambitious." Can't wait to see what seems be to the floor is lava episode. The tone and…

First off, nice find. Secondly, I think that they're both appearing in every episode from their initial introductions (ep. 2 for Banks and ep. 4 for Oliver, I think?) to the end of the season. So basically regulars, yeah.

I like to imagine Dan Harmon watching Gilligan on Talking Bad or some talk show or something, being all mustached and smiley and charming, and a lightbulb going on over his head: I must have this man in my show!

So, look, I don't hate Homeland or anything like that. I've enjoyed scattered episodes and stories here and there this year. I liked the Brody training montage episode, perhaps because Rocky films have instilled a love of training montage into me. I laughed like mad and maybe even clapped my hands when Saul locked the…

That appeared to be some impressively distant and accurate egg-throwing from Adam and Kristina. That billboard looked pretty damn far away, and every egg throw hit just right. Those two kids should really join a local softball league or something.

Man, Community season 2 is right up alongside Friday Night Lights seasons 1 and 3-5, Freaks and Geeks, The Wire season 4 and Buffy seasons 2-3 on my list of all-time favorite TV seasons ever. So what I'm saying is we can never be friends. I kid, I kid.

You're not wrong about the consensus. My opinion that it's a series top-ten episode is a lot more out of line with mainstream thought. But what can I say? I adore it. I don't think a week has gone by since we saw it that my fiancé and I haven't quoted lines from it at each other, even if its something as stupid as "My…