I would have loved it if he'd pronounced the g like the g in his own name.

What, so a B- season review based on the first four episodes, and a For Your Consideration where Erik Adams wrote a couple of favourable sentences about the show amounts to "high praise" for Mulaney? And a couple of B+ reviews for a first season ridden with Ds and Cs for Two Broke Girls? I don't see how any of that…

It looks like it's a screen grab done at low resolution and blown up to fit the standard AV Club header image size.

I stopped watching Homeland after the terrorist tailor shop shootout extravaganza towards the end of season 2, but up to that point, two of my favourite scenes of the show involved Dana (and her father): the chainlink fence with the locks, and the Quran-burying.She (or at least the actress) earns a free pass from me…

Troll the respawn… Jeremy.

Yeah, the second episode wasn't half bad, and I hope the willingness to go non-murder in the b-plot will help alleviate the sad fact that it seems like they're going to go with a murder as the a-plot every week. No matter how quirky and interesting they go about solving it, there's no getting away from how…

I'm repeating myself from the eulogy thread, but: the scene at the end with Polly and her brother is perhaps my favourite from the entire series.

Nation is one of the pinnacles of his bibliography. Contains pretty much everything that made him great…
I had to correct the tense of the verb there from "makes" to "made", and now I'm actually crying, like a character in some stupid movie.

I realise that a lot of my love for the "We're on a mission from Glod" comes from me being a callow youth and feeling all superior for getting the reference, but it's still one of my favourite reading-Discworld moments.

I don't know if it's his best, but I'm gonna go with Monstrous Regiment. My memory sucks (also I'm not a big re-reader), so caveat ahoy, but out of nearly twenty years as a Pratchett reader, the scene toward the end with Polly and her brother is perhaps the single moment that's stuck with me the most.

I'm joining the choir for Nation here. True, the central character dynamic is straight out of Only You Can Save Mankind, but comparing the two really shows you how Pratchett grew as a writer in the sixteen years between them. Even if the last two Aching books aren't as flat-out amazing as the first two, I'd still…

She's done a lot of TV work (both comedy and drama) in Scandinavia, along with a few English-language films (Defiance, Chéri, The Eclipse). The most high profile TV gigs have been procedurals like Anna Pihl and Dicte, and the comedies Klown and Dag (the latter is supposed to be really, really good).

See, I would've been with you if you'd said "prettier" or "more beautiful" — even though I bristle a bit at there being a universal and objective standard of beauty, there is an argument to be made for that. But "sexier"? Just… no. What a person finds sexy is utterly subjective, and beauty is just one of the many…

The utter crapness of just about everything Loeb's done since has soured me on those Sale collaborations, even though I know I loved those when I read them way back when.

I recommend sticking with the series for the Swierczynski issues. It's not a completely seamless transition, but I generally enjoyed the way he concluded the Fraction/Brubaker story. And some of the self-contained issues are as good as anything from the preceding run. Caveat: Travel Foreman's art may be a dealbreaker…

As a noun or an adjective though?

Come on, Kyle Bornheimer's character was fun (at least his performance was). I was really sad to see him go, even if it was in the laziest of let's-kill-off-a-character-to-serve-as-motivation ways.

Spurred on by Captcha Reader's comment yesterday, I thought I'd start a thread for yesterday's The Fosters.

Man, now I'm sad all over again at the loss of Carrie Raisler's Switched at Fosters reviews this (half) season. Especially considering how good they've been. Fosters have just continued its impressive quality trajectory, and Switched has made an upswing, and delivered a consistency I honestly didn't think it had in it.

I've never watched Unforgettable, but with that premise, I have a hard time believing it's as odious and deserving of scorn as The Following, Stalker, Criminal Minds and the like. Even if it is another murder-of-week show.