It sounds like Fox needs to let go of the whole Sunday night ghetto thing. I dutifully recorded Simpsons, et al, for years until I reached the point where I realized that Fox's Sunday night comedies were what I was regularly deleting unwatched from my DVR to make space. The latter seasons of Malcolm in the Middle were…

I'm mostly enjoying the somewhat aimless quality of the last couple of episodes. Rather than positing some big significance to Portland, or bringing some supernatural crisis coming to a head, I'm enjoying a show where there is a fully developed alt-society of hidden beasties that this new Grimm is getting dropped into…

I wish they could've fleshed out the amber Oliva/Nina relationship a lot better; Sinister Nina's secretive actions don't pack the punch I think they should. A couple of times they've *told* us about Nina raising Olive and her sister, but they didn't really show the kind of affection and trust they are saying is there.

This is English! If you used it in a sentence and I understood what you meant, you're golden.

About three blocks from my (sort of) house is a park recognized in 1967 by Ripley's Believe It Or Not as the smallest dedicated park in the US:

Absolutely. My life got so much nicer once I stopped worrying about what other people liked either way. Not only do I not get worked up about people loving things I loath, I don't give a shit whether anyone likes what I like.* It used to bother me that my friends or my wife didn't like something, as though their life…

I wondered that too, but if the CDC couldn't come up with a cure or vaccine, I'm not sure that an old country vet could. Not that Herschel knew that, of course, but it seems like a bad storyline to follow (in other words, I wouldn't rule it out).

My guess is that Darabont signed Michael Rooker and Adam Minarovich to contracts promising that they'd appear in the second season, so they decided to just get them both out of the way in the same episode.

Fringe always has to help pay the bills with the product placements… At least this season they don't have Ford's annoying navigation system to plug. They seem to be driving Nissans now, but the only thing I noticed there is that last week they digitally removed all brand identification from the back of the distressed…

Yeah, the manual had the alt-universe Fringe logo on the front.

Especially given that things like Skins, Peep Show, the Inbetweeners, etc, all air on BBC America here, we should be forgiven for not always knowing what isn't actually BBC. I certainly don't care if the rest of the world knows the difference between Fox and NBC (but if you can somehow help the ratings for Fringe and…

Monstrous Regiment was one of my first, and it is definitely a bad one to start out with, I think. It mostly assumes you know all about vampires, Igors and whatnot from the other books, and as my first introduction to Vimes and Vetinari, it was plain confusing. Borogravia also makes a lot more sense after having been…

Hogfather is more than just decent enough. Teatime is a great bad guy, the mythical characters made real are fun and inventive, and Death gets to indulge his humanity to the fullest (he and Arthur encountering the little matchgirl still makes me tear up).

Early on, when they were pimping Glenn for the job, I wanted someone to add, "But we don't let Glenn talk."

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if we learn that Herschel and Co have kicked several other groups on down the road and this is a script she's already run through.

A central theme of BSG was the tension between military and civilian leadership. I don't think they were just pretending not to be a dictatorship, the story *constantly* dealt with the push and pull between dictatorship and democracy, exploring the positive and negative consequences of both. The minor twist was that…

It's pretty much always a mistake to try and make young children a significant part of an hour-long weekly drama. They're almost never up to the acting challenge (nor should they be asked to be). I thought trading Pruitt Taylor Vince for Carl in The Walking Dead was a terrible exchange. Who would you rather watch…

I knew throughout the scene that Hector's bell would be the trigger for the bomb, but that didn't make it one ounce less effective.

My wife was practically growling, listening to her ask him about his poopies.

I've been pushing for "Not As Much As Football" by Mojo Nixon for years: