Well, This Is Despicable.
Mad Men is the smartest, most emotionally astute television show I've ever seen, and it owes its graces to its writers. I don't trust the ongoing stories of these characters to anyone save the people who created them. Besides, if Matthew Weiner doesn't come back, they'll never get to the…

It's a very good movie, but I don't think it was an unqualified masterpiece. The premise is engaging, but is apparently artificial: How long has the son been taking visits from Christina? How long have the offspring been sexually active? How have they gone that long without an animal ever crossing their fence? How…

That was the premise of the last season of Angel, and it turned out to be the best season of that series.

My fiancee is pregnant right now, so this whole episode was fucking terrifying for us, despite the complete lack of realism. Sure would be great to have this first trimester over with, though. Ugh.

I'd actually kind of like to see what the writers would do with the premise of one of the universes being obliterated at the end of this season. At least some members of both Fringe teams would somehow survive, leaving us with, say, Olivia, AlternaLincoln, Peter, Charlternate, Astrid, and Walter. Would a show with…

I gave it an A, too. Sure, Fauxlivia's escape was convenient, but it makes sense that her captors didn't need to see the labor through once they'd seen their drugs take it to term. Alt-Charlie, Lincoln, and Walternate were in fine form, and Fauxlivia's mom displayed some affecting sorrow when she learned what had…

Also: Why didn't they monitor her vitals to determine whether or not she was under the proper amount of sedagive? The only reasonable answer to both questions, aside from the obvious answer that it's a plot hole, is that Fauxlivia's chemically altered state demands a somewhat different administration of sedative. That…

Can we just leave Bellivia there?

Astrid can look however she wants and that'll be fine with me.

David Cross should be cast as Ginsburg in every film to feature him. That's a great, effortless performance.

I'd just like to take a minute to highjack this thread and say that Our Hospitality, on the other hand, is absolutely amazing.

It is written in prose. But it's written in terrible, purple Chris Carter prose.

Honestly, all I remember from "Redux" is those bodies in tanks that seem to go on forever, and Scully passing out. So, while I know I wasn't really satisfied with it, I can't remember the parts I didn't like. Thanks, selective memory!

Well, you've all given me a great deal to think about, at least. I still don't like the episode, but now I can at least recognize the craft in its more successful parts.

Loved Gabel as Lincoln Lee A. Hope he gets better dialogue next time he pops up, though.

Akiva Goldsman's best work, by far, has been on this show. And the Transformers guys left after the first season.

Fringe Gets The Jesus, And Diminished Returns
This season of Fringe has been something rare in television history- a show unbound by realism or taste running wild through its creators' crazed imaginations. The only show I can think of that has done this to any successful degree was Twin Peaks. That show's creators…

Mac and Me!
I trust there's at least one shot of a bloated alien corpse's crotch that ends with the creature being resurrected by the magic of Coca Cola, and at least one disabled child falling off a cliff.

But is it going to be released on Blu-Ray? So far, the only US Fellini BDs are 8 1/2 and Amarcord.

Strictly for Fun?
Why the hell not? Sure, the blues was often an expression of anger- anger at an oppressive society, at life's petty absurdities, and even at oneself- but it was also often an expression of bald desire and even joy. Some artists tended more toward one mode of expression than others, and those who play…