Obscure Anger Target. Better as band name, album or song title?

If I recall correctly, the TV Club reviews for the final episodes were pretty favourable, so if you liked the show, you should probably watch it, and then luxuriate in the exquisite pain of having a show you tolerated-to-enjoyed-a-bit cancelled.

I think you'll find that to be a pretty accurate drawing of Dermot Mulroney.

Now I wish Laurence Fishburne wasn't so good an actor, so I could use my snappy "So basically, Laurence Fishburne" joke. Sorry, "joke".

I hope this is a gimmick account making uncontroversial statements of fact about the article its commenting on, following it up with "My God." If so, it has a lot of potential. Otherwise, I don't understand.

After its prominent position in Hot Fuzz, I put on my best anti-snob hat and tried watching Bad Boys 2, but had to give up about half an hour or so into it.
Even giving it all the benefits of all the doubts, the visual storytelling was so messy and incomprehensible it just became painful to watch after a while. I have…

Chained up in Alan Sepinwall's basement, probably.

POTENTIAL DARK TOWER SPOILERS AHOY

I have no sympathy for space-religions crusading against pharmaceuticals, but I can assure you that there's no "just" about having to eat drugs every day to avoid having an allergy attack.

My thoughts exactly. I don't really know how this one differs to all the other times the show has let Sheldon have his way because he's Sheldon, but the ending really rubbed me the wrong way. I think it might have something to do with (like Oliver wrote) the way the usual power balances shifted in some of the…

Also, in paragraph 5, I'm pretty sure it says "couch" a couple of times where it should say "dinner table".

One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet: the show's tacit acknowledgement of the lawbreaking ways of the Foster children. I'm holding out hope that the writers pull back a little on the felonious plots after this whole Brandon thing is resolved. Of course, the way that storyline is going, he might be in prison by…

From your lips to Paige and Bredeweg's ears, sir. (Or is that "sire"? I never did learn the proper protocol for addressing royalty.)

I didn't mind that too much, but then again; when it comes to those types of soapy plot developments, watching syndicated episodes of Seventh Heaven every day after school for a period in my formative years has probably warped my tolerance for emotionally manipulative melodrama beyond repair.

And like you pointed out about, therein lies the beauty of how the writers have constructed this relationship: Both John and Kathryn can see their own grievances as legitimate and their partners as unreasonable without neither of them coming off as being wrong.

Wasn't that third show Happy Endings? Of the two others, Traffic Light was definitely the stronger (and funnier) show out of the box, but Perfect Couples had a really distinctive and interesting voice that I would really have liked to see develop over time. The writers and directors seemed to have found the perfect…

Speaking of Vikings; a commenter in yesterday's WOT prompted me to check out the recent Swedish miniseries Ettor och nollor by Johan Renck (who directed three Vikings episodes last season), starring Floki himself, Gustaf Skarsgård.

Update: just watched the first episode of Ettor och nollar, and it's a very strange beast.
The storytelling and structure seem indebted to Guy Ritchie and Christopher McQuarrie, but the tone and mood are very subdued. I'm tempted to say it's exactly the way you would imagine a Swedish show with those references to be,…

Absolutely no worries; I'm just happy to have a discussion about stuff like this unfold in a civilised manner.

I think it's more about the films it beat out for the nod. Don't you know that A Girly Movie About Kissing And Girls And Theatre will never be as good as Manly Movie About War And Men And Guns And Honour (splodey blockbuster version) and Manly Movie About War And Men And Guns And Honour (slightly more pensive version).