Callie Thorne…
really looks like Mischa Barton in that picture.

Kieth Phipps said "twenty-ten"
So yay Keith Phipps.

Yeah, she never works for me. She reminds me of the one-joke recurring characters on Scrubs, except they were based on much, much better jokes, and the show was much friendlier to cartoony things like that. Either way, the scenes with Barb just aren't funny. I guess Tom is kind of similarly one-note character, but…

I like the idea that Noel Murray and Myles McNutt are the same person because I find it hilarious that one guy would be writing two sets of Buffy/Angel reviews as part of an elaborate internet ruse.

soap cliche
I visited my grandmother earlier this year and was forced to endure a handful of soap operas, and the biggest thing I noticed was the obscene amount of dramatic conversations accompanied by swelling scores. It was almost as if they didn't know how to write any other type of scene. I then watched an…

Yeah, I thought it was hilarious how the writers were so blatantly disregarding continuity, but almost as if to fuck with continuity nerds they made a point of referencing really specific things from past episodes, especially the completely gratuitous "I was in Italy last week!" as that had no bearing on the plot at…

Wow, good call.

Apparently The AV Club should have worked harder to please us Whedon fanboys. Because yes, I was totally about to type a similar comment (it was my favorite Dollhouse episode). Also, if anime is suddenly being discussed in these, I really feel like Satoshi Kon's Paprika should have been mentioned. I haven't even…

The A+ thing bothers me. I get why they don't allow it for new stuff. If you rank something an A+ based on your immediate reaction when it airs, you can look really silly in retrospect. (Example: the Curb finale. Definitely a great episode, but an A+ episode? And on a site that has only given two A+'s in its…

"unreasonably dated Kristen Bell for a while"
That sounds like they broke up or something, but they're actually engaged. I have spent too much time watching Kristen Bell-Craig Ferguson interviews.

series finale?
for the record, they've already completed three episodes of the next season (they had to start early due to Amy Poehler's pregnancy), so there's not really any chance of this being the series finale. http://twitter.com/KenTreme…

Yeah, same. The premise sounded a lot like Starved to me, a show with an edgy hook and nothing else going for it. I laughed my ass off when I found out it was from the same guy.

a series that also had a great racial sensitivity episode?
Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Probably the best episode of the show, give or take a Conan.

Theory
My theory is right again…
If there's a truly awful telecast (last year), the awards won't be that disappointing. But if there's a pretty good telecast, the awards will go to a lot the wrong nominees (this year).

though I doubt any AV Club staffers have heard it…
Get Set Go's "Suicide" would have been a worthy song to mention.

SPOILERS
To get back to "which seasons end in a cliffhanger" thing, Joss Whedon has stated that he purposely wrapped up each season in a way that it could work as the ending to the series if they didn't come back, with one exception - season six. He said they knew they were coming back so they tried ending it with a…

Season One: Enormously uneven. For every exciting episode there's a dreadful one that puts you to sleep.
Season Two: A significant improvement. Much sharper stand-alone episodes and good arc.
Season Three: Highly terrific. The best of the series, by a mile.
Season Four: A mess off-screen, and it shows badly. They…