I really hope though those snide "ice-cream scooper" comments of his throughout the game come back to haunt his ass in the final when Eric becomes "activated" at the right time (final immunity). And this coming from someone who actually loves Cochran and have been following him on Twitter for like two years. I just…

My big wish is that it isn't in Cochran's hands who gets to go to final tribal. I hope it is someone who isn't a strategic thinker, like Eric. Because then it can really fuck shit up and it will make it so much more fun.

Perhaps, but I also hope Dawn gets a nervous breakdown at tribal when the fire rains down on her. And I really hope Cochran doesn't win, because that would make too much convenient sense. I love Survivor most when it is irrational and people that shouldn't win actually wins, 'cause then it really sticks in one's craw…

She giggled 'cause Andrea was trying to get her out of the game, She didn't have an emotional connection with Andrea, which she obviously did with Dawn and actually kept Dawn in the game on more than one occasion. (Again, I refer to the The Bottom Teeth Retainer Incident.) I think that makes it kinda different, when…

I really hope Cochran does get heat. There's no fun in making "big moves" if you don't get to pay some sort of price for it. Otherwise the game would be easy and straightforward. And his big game isn't as bold and entertaining as, say Malcolm's was. He's was all behind the scenes backstabbing stuff with this season's…

Hands down the best moment of this episode: all of those copies of Sterling's Gold.

Alison Brie really killed with her geeky Annie bits. The character that has suffered the most at the hands of the new creators' revisionist mindset has been Annie, and this has been the biggest disappointment for me this season as Annie was the character that showed the most growth towards the tail-end of  Season 3.…

Trudy getting shit did.

A few reasons this season has been working for me: it DOES feel more
accessible, even for me, a die-hard Communist. It has that season 1 vibe, well,
sort of, of it being content to just be silly sometimes. I will say it: Harmon
might in all likelihood not have produced that great a season 4; it might have
been the "right"…

Everyone who makes the merge becomes part of jury once they are voted off. So Phillip's gonna be a part of the game to the end no matter what.

Erik wins.

Visit cbs.com for interviews that don't make the show. There's usually at least half a dozen or so every week, and it's usually the players that didn't get to say much during the actual episode. You can kind of understand of why they got cut out. They shed some interesting light on the game to hear the "voiceless"…

Well, I clearly said that I found the animation style and the character designs in Spirited Away obnoxious, which to me was very jarring indeed because it was so totally incongruous with the earlier Miyazaki movies that I loved. The gangly, almost sinewy design of the lead character was supposed to signal the…

Also, the creator shares a name with a Final Fantasy VII alien character.

If you pay close attention, most of Studio Ghibli's movies are deeply, deeply flawed. I personally love My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Castle of Cagliostro (I would even add Porco Rosso at a stretch), but almost everything else is so flawed that it sometimes make me…

"We have the female cast members put into German costumes to accentuate their figures". WTF Todd?

Fuck yeah! Although, I must admit, this last, Dobby-centred of Peep Show kinda sucked. It didn't feel like Peep Show at all. What do you make of Fresh Meat, the other show from the Peep Show creators?

Black Book is great. It's like a precursor of sorts to Inglourious Bastards (or however you spell that beautiful motherfucker.)

Being a super hardcore fan prototype meself, I'm all for hardcore fandom, but goddamnit, why not give the damn thing a chance to gather some legs? We knew it wasn't gonna have exactly the same Harmon flavor, but the episodes we've seen so far I would say are better than most of the mediocre Harmon episodes, of which…

There's still 10 episodes to go. Perhaps they will discover their groove to your satisfaction. Why give up so soon? The show runners were put in an impossible situation and deserve at least a reasonable shot to establish their own tone. Stick around. What's their to lose?