I'm glad you found it moving. It did nothing for me.

Oddly enough, I really dislike Law and Order. I despise its politics (I can name on one hand the shows in the past decade that seem to share my worldview (South Park, Firefly, Jericho, Boardwalk Empire and maybe Rome [I'm a sucker for classical history, but I'm not a fan of Caesar] so I don't usualy judge something…

I don't watch 30 Rock, gave up during the fourth season, but Community was really quite good.

It's a very good episode but I'd put a number of others ahead of it. Everything from Kaboom to Leslie's House and then Summer Catalogue through Ron and Tammys. It was a good episode and very good for this season, but not in their top ten. I think The Treaty and Smallest Park are the best episodes of the season, Ron…

I see what you're getting at but I think it only works if you see Ann and Tom as a viable couple. I don't (maybe Tom from season one/early season two when he seemed more savy and less like a bizarre out of place wannabe alpha male) and I'd prefer Tom and Wendy, or Ann and Mark or anything else besides the pairing. But…

While I wouldn't consider this season to be a downward slope, this isn't The Office (whose decline could be measured from season six on, with hints in season five), I would argue that season four has been a decline from the perhaps unsustainable highs of seasons two and three. I think the campaign arc itself hasn't…

I gave it an A-. Excellent episode, and it actually moved the whole arc forward and gave Leslie some momentum, which we knew was coming.

I knew it was coming up but I really liked tonight's episode. An A- felt totally justified.

Redacted. Just make sure you rewatch tomorrow on Hulu or NBC.

Eh, I could have gone my whole life without watching any of the Law and Order shows, although I've seen plenty of them. Their whole "ripped from the headlines" deal always left me cold and I couldn't be further away from their politics. I will admit to liking Jerry Orbach and Chris Noth along with S. Epatha…

I wonder if we'll see his son again? I'd actually prefer it if his son was actually a former student of his who he got involved in the meth business with and….wait.

Dazed and Confused is my pick for best slice of life film. I wasn't alive in '76, so I can't be one hundred percent sure about its veracity, but I really get a feeling for the time and place while watching it. The Before Sunrise/Sunset films are wonderful as well and are also in the running for best screen romance.

Wooderson and Buddy Deeds are pretty strong evidence that you're right.

How do you remember that? I've seen nearly every episode of Full House (and I'm obviously not very proud of that) but I'd totally forgotten that whole subplot until just this moment. Man, that's like the time that Perfect Strangers did a "ripped from the headlines" plot in which Balki was going to be the front of some…

I really want a return of the Miami based assassins played by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant. I liked those guys.

The Burt Reynolds episode was probably worse, although I definitely liked them tracking through the Lousiana bayou. Anyway, Man from Jupiter, Drift Problem and the murder/assassination episode (which just seemed to be a more extreme version of the failed dinner party of season one) were the season low points of an…

It's weird, but the one character I actually enjoyed, at least for a time, was the main couple's borderline sociopathic son during his high school rebellion phase. By the time he was jerking off in the handicapped stall two chapters later, I wondered what happened to the sub-Nietzchean ubermencsh. Then I stopped…

I'm with you on both the Corrections love and Freedom hate. I haven't read The Corrections in four or five years, and that was only my second read, yet it remains one of those novels that has stuck with me and remains fresh. I read Freedom the week it came out, was rather disapointed with it (I did finish it, though…

I remember watching my father act in our local theatre's production of the play. The roughly 22 year old video tape is somewhere out there. Needless to say, I'll have to ask him if he's seen this.

I'm not a Romney supporter (I voted for another of the losers in the Louisiana primary) but I think he has about a 30-35 percent shot of winning. Better than Dole did in '96, worse than Kerry did in '04. Like Johnny said, if gas continues to go up in price and the unemployment rate continues where it is or increases I…