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Start not getting excited for the Islanders one: E from Entourage is directing it.

The Packers had their number for those later years, and I guess I mostly mean the AFC playoffs. I vividly remember that Broncos loss to the Jaguars for some reason, even though Denver is basically the Raiders' biggest division rival.

I always thought of it as a mixture of Macbeth, King Lear, and Richard III.

Betsy Brandt is wonderful, and I'm so glad she got a chance to talk about that fantastic intervention scene at length. I'm a big fan of Mark Z. Danielewski, and when he took his book The Fifty-Year Sword on tour as a conducted performance for five voices, I was delighted to see Brandt performing as one of the spectral

Just wanted to get in at the beginning to say that "Disarm" is indeed a cover of the Smashing Pumpkins song. Williams/White have been performing it live for a few years now, and I'm still a bit confused by it. The vocals are typically stunning, but like Corgan's own cover of "Landslide," the genre shift is both

The simple, elegant greatness of that memoir only makes it harder to say that this book felt very disappointing. I like Sheffield a great deal, and his innate positivity is infectious at times, but this just didn't get there. Though I am definitely pleased to know that Sheffield has made it back to a point where he's

This was exactly my first reaction. I wanted to say it was how he was holding his phone, but I know better than to give the guy the benefit of the doubt.

Those titles have been on Wikipedia for weeks now, along with writer/director for each episode.

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I got a Southland notification for THIS?

I presume she filmed this whole season before that happened, but yeah that was a crazy panel moment.

IT'S BEARD-FUH-SAY!

Josh has a kid, I do not. I think that's the divide.

It was my runner-up, an absolutely batshit and incredible moment in a really great episode. Although I liked the August: Osage County episode a little better, that moment is still crazily memorable.

I thought it was a pretty thin comparison to link really talented journalists to on-air entertainers like Erin Andrews. The modern reporters do their job competently, but they're nothing like the writing talent from the previous generation. Glaring omission in all of this: Jackie MacMullan, who was definitely in that

I completely agree with this—and had the documentary been marketed as just an introduction or a roundtable of pioneering female sports journalists, it would've been better off. But this was about the issue of gaining equal access to the locker room, and on that issue this episode failed to really dig into that story

My Lunch/My Fallen Idol have 2 of my favorite shots in the entire series. From the former, it's Cox and Carla trying to resuscitate the guy who got Jill's kidney, that handheld camera and even that damn Fray song. In the latter, it's the one time he addresses JD by his name at the bar right at the end. I welled up on

That episode very nearly made me like The Fray.

The biggest gut-punch moment with the benefit of hindsight in this episode is how tossed-off the moment of Ben's death feels in the first half. JD, Turk, and Elliot stand at the pharmacy window talking to each other about Turk's mole, when JD's pager goes off for a code. It's heartbreaking, and probably my favorite

This is by far—BY FAR—the most emotionally affecting episode Scrubs ever did. Others had the romantic heartstring-tugging or the actually insightful commentary on the medical profession or the inner workings of a teaching hospital, but "My Screw Up" is the zenith of emotional heft in the series.