"Technology-dated". Good on ya, Modell. I too think music should be critiqued using the same criteria as one would for, say, mobile phones.

Amazing job on this, Oliver! Really nice to see Hanselmann featured at the top of the front page too.

Yeah. David Sims seemed like an all-round great guy, but the arrival of Sonia around Good Wife way and Dennis Perkins on the SNL beat has made the Todd-less TV Club a lot easier to take. Sims wasn't bad by any strength of the imagination, but I seldom felt like I learned something or got any deeper insight from his…

Pff, that's no big deal, people call me that all the time.

Clearly. Sure, you could see her absence from the episode itself as a vote of confidence from the producers, acknowledging her status as the next breakout star. But it's still poor advertising to feature her so heavily in the teaser, without reinforcing the interest they're banking on it to generate by making sure she…

You're welcome, sir/ma'am.

Music thread? Music thread.

I don't know about other Europeans, but I certainly, as you say, "fuck with" SNL, on a regular basis. And in much more adventurous and free-spirited ways than you prudish colonials could ever imagine.

And if you're in Europe, and can't use US Hulu, here's a link for you!

See what's happening!

Josh Hutcherson. And yeah, that was one of the best episodes last season (if not the best). Also, it was the first appearance of the vet hospital sketch, and although it wasn't anything special, it was much better than its return appearance last night. Hutcherson did better than Pratt as the effiminate male clerk, and…

Strange that they would make six minutes worth of teaser trailer with her and Pratt (showing okay chemistry, I thought), and then not feature them together in the show at all.

"The fight is over" and the tense music abruptly cutting out was pretty nice as well.

The Kid Rock joke was, indeed, good.

Belated congratulations! Here, have a Norwegian birthday song (if this is your first exposure to the truly bizarre Scandinavian phenomenon that is "dansband", I can only apologise).

You're right about that. Bachalo feels like a special case, where his art for some years (late nineties through the mid aughts?) got more and more muddy and incomprehensible, before he started pulling back on that and seemed to settle into a (relatively) clearer line and storytelling style. Admittedly, I haven't read…

I had a couple of those too, and a couple that went the other way; where I loved their work when I was thirteen, but kinda loathe it today (Humberto Ramos being the most prominent). Because my exposure to vintage superhero comics growing up was limited to Spider-Man and Batman reprints, I didn't have the chance to get…

Yes. I wish I could contribute more to the thread, especially since I demanded it yesterday, but the… service that enables me to watch SU where I am hasn't come through with the latest episode yet.

I've just finished watching Spectacular Spider-Man, and it breaks my heart that perhaps the best non-comic version of Spider-Man ever made was sacrificed on the altar of Marvel Studios' need to keep everything in-house. Also, I'm going to keep blaming Jeph Loeb until someone says different.

It's an episode featuring three short stories