3 had the most best episodes, I'm not sure why people give it such a short shrift. I could just start listing all the great stuff in the season but it would just be a list of all season 3 episodes along with their descriptions.

I'm hoping the show spins off of itself because I feel like it would be even easier to integrate new members into a cast whose place in the world is also new. The time at Greendale is done but that doesn't mean we can't still have new adventures with our Community.

Blasphemy! He's an Adonis, a model of prowess and intelligent dedication to physical improvement. Upper pec development is only part of the picture.

Pretty much my experience as well. Listening to the songs individually doesn't give you the full and proper experience of that song. SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND is one of the greatest albums ever but on an individual basis only a few of its songs stand out.

Hannibal was never a procedural even as it uses some procedural tropes.
Of course Person of Interest and the first five seasons of Supernatural are both serial procedurals and also examples of fantastic shows. Also Veronica Mars and iZombie.

I feel some shame for not re-watching the second season of Hannibal as I did the first but the first season's issues are relatively obvious when you re-watch the show. A lot of hay is made about "psychic driving" and what it means for the psychologist that employs those techniques and there's a far broader…

The show was about Rust Cohle's journey from intellectual nihilism to experiential hopefulness.

Actually it also had a brilliant direction of the kind not really seen on television before and the writing was a lot deeper than most people, even those who like the show, give it credit for. It seems that more people who like the show dislike Rust's abandonment of his nihilism in the end but truly it's the whole…

I gotta be the stickler here and say if you're listening to The Beatles in a song by song format you're doing it wrong. The Beatles had a number of singles and B-sides to be sure but by and large they wrote albums and not songs. For God's sake if you're going to listen to The Beatles put on one of their (English!)…

There is plenty of surprise in drama but the audiences requirements for emotional punches is lessened in a drama vs. a comedy.
Jokes and dramatic beats both rely on the same basic framework: Setting an expectation in the audience and then fulfilling the expectation in a way that couldn't be anticipated (i.e.…

Chris Evans doe

He'll survive but his relationship with Liv will be wrenched even further apart than it is now — that's far more painful than death.

His arc gives off shades of Will Tippin from ALIAS season 1. Not that that guy went on to do anything special.

Really? I felt 12 Monkeys was terribly mediocre. Not offensively bad or anything just severely ho hum. I haven't checked out Jane the Virgin; it's not my typical milieu.

iZombie is the Hannibal of this tv season. A show whose concept I originally ridiculed (the incredulousness at making Hannibal a regular and recurring tv show character on the one hand, zombie fatigue in the other) that, upon learning of the show's pedigree (Bryan Fuller and Rob Thomas respectively) all preconceived…

Yeah okay go watch THE ROCKETEER back to back with THE FIRST AVENGER and then come back and tell me that Joe Johnston wasn't all over that film. This is just crazy talk.

Can you describe exactly what makes one director an influence on a film vs. another director in a way that can't be blithely dismissed as superficial and cosmetic?

I'm aware of the meme but it couldn't be more flatly incorrect. Kenneth Branagh's THOR is very stylistically different than Joe Johnston's THE FIRST AVENGER which is also different than The Russo Bros. THE WINTER SOLDIER which is also different than Shane Black's IRON MAN 3 or even James Gunn's GUARDIANS OF THE…

My suspicion was that it was a jealousy fueled hatred because GOTG was the most clear cut comedy film of the MCU and not only that but also cleaved comedy with character development in a way that few screenwriters can do — yet this is a thing that Dan Harmon has been doing (and doing well!) since at least the pilot…

Comedy and drama are the same except for that they seek to effect different reactions in the audience. There's no functional difference between a well written comedy, action, or drama — noting the term 'well written' doesn't necessarily apply to every film that's funny, or has an action scene, or features someone…