It's the depression. It's quite possible that the family has broken up.

I'll criticize Boardwalk Empire for what I see as its faults but it is without question an order of magnitude better than Sons of Anarchy.

I'd put Harrow and Rothstein as the MVPs.

This was once my favorite show on television. I'm not sure if it's the rather rushed ending (the time jump didn't do them any favors except to set up Nucky's death in the most predictable way possible and the establishment of a new order in organized crime) or that I feel like they killed off their most compelling…

Thank God, I thought he was going to completely fuck up adapting another Mark Helprin novel.

#7 And so began the great Flanderization of Ron Swanson in which the breakout character of the series was gradually reduced to a walking internet meme. See also Schrute, Dwight.

The AV Club had a bit of a different opinion than Daly, or for that matter his interviewer, on this album a decade ago. No name on the review but fairly favorable. http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Boom headshot!

Book Stannis is awesome. TV Stannis is a humorless crusader.

I'd essentially consider this his audition tape. Alan Sepinwal retweeted someone saying, "This is the first time an actor saw a Gary Oldman performance and thought, 'I can go bigger.'"

Goddamn these electric sex pants.

Love that line. Spacey's fine as Underwood but Richardson is just brilliant as Urquhart.

So, and definitely spoilers from the older UK series, we're being set up for Claire eventually having to have her husband murdered in order to preserve their respective legacies and, in a change from the original, perhaps her own political ambitions. I'm assuming that Meechum will be the one to pull the trigger. I…

It's not bad. His Cicero novels are better.

Well, I guess this answers the question of what would happen if someone decided to half ass an adaptation of a Mark Helprin novel to the screen. It really does sadden me. Helprin was one of my favorite authors when I was younger and although his recent output isn't nearly as strong as his earlier works, A Soldier of…

I was hoping that this was going to be an adaptation of the Robert Harris novel. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case. Instead, this looks like a vastly inferior version of Gladiator with a volcano.

I think Instant Crush might actually be my favorite song that they've ever done.

It's always a shame to see someone in the prime of his life whose work brought happiness to so many die. That he was, by all accounts I've read, a thoroughly decent, modest individual who used his celebrity to help others makes his untimely passing even sadder.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is only six episodes long and well worth watching. All of the episodes are on Youtube.

I remember Profit being great when I watched it a while back (it got a DVD release). I'm hoping that wasn't just wishful thinking on my part.