I would go with "Waiting in the Wings" or "Smile Time" for Angel because, though I prefer Angel to Buffy (my key reasoning being that Season 4 of Angel isn't as bad as season 6 of Buffy) for largely telling more effective dramatic arcs, I was always a sucker for the light and fun episodes.

I've always thought of Home Rooms as the best episode of The Wire. Granted,  despite being my favourite show, I haven't yet re-watched the whole series beginning to end, but I think that this episode really encapsulates what I like about the languid pace of the early episodes in a given season, with the show…

I started with the Red Shoes, and then watched Tales of Hoffman.

I just watched the 200th episode clip show the other day, and was taken aback at how good the clips looked. I know they shot on film and everything, but compared to the DVD transfers these clips really looked in a different league. Makes me think about how a blu-ray release might look.

I think Follies on the other hand could make a great movie, with some re-working of "Loveland". Company would also have made a great movie, if it was made in the early 1970's, but I don't think it could be done as well now as the book and style of the songs seem rooted in the time they were made in.

all of Lapine's books are a mess.

Is it odd for me to really like "Nightmare as a Child" soley based on the score? I think that in Zicree's book the episode gets a very bad rap, when in reality it is a pretty typical Twilight Zone story with good acting and a score which I think puts it over the top of many of the season 1 episodes (I haven't seen any…

Books/Plays: The Night Gardener, All the Pretty Horses, Death of a Salesman, Othello

Is reading the script a play more or less significant than watching a film of a play?

I made it through just five minutes, and I think this should be used as a test to determine if someone has the ability to be a critic.

An interesting thing to note in "My Bed Banter and Beyond", is that it involves the Janitor interacting with other people, specifically Laverne after J.D says that they have dancing around each other forever. Moments like this make me wonder how committed Bill Lawrence was to the whole "Janitor is in J.D's head" thing.

Count me in for Arkham game coverage also.

I thought it was very good, not necessarily the most tightly plotted episode but very entertaining nonetheless.

I seem to remember Ja'mie having stubble in a scene or two, but otherwise I would say he does make a more convincing girl than Dave Foley (based on the Newsradio Halloween episode, as I haven't seen Kids in the Hall).

Yes, we are called New Zealanders.

I think Angry Boys really brings that to the fore, wheras Summer Heights High and We Can Be Heroes were willing to have characters that were complete and utter dicks (Mr. G, the policeman from We Can Be Heroes).

I think Angry Boys was let down by what, to me, seemed like Lilley attempting to pander to a more global audience instead of capturing both broad and specific portraits of life in Australia. I also thought the ending of Angry Boys was crap.

This year, I became obsessed with the music of Stephen Sondheim. I had always been a big fan of Jazz and Tin-Pan Alley music, and watched the film version of Sweeney Todd when it came out though the film doesn't really make the music seem interesting due to a singing style not suited to the music and poor direction of…

Actually some of Citizen Kane's style had been around for a while. Gregg Toland had been doing deep-focus photography since the 1930's (there is a piece on David Bordwell's blog about it), and I think the editing style had also been done before.

Now that's sarcasm!