In your defense, I should've talked about them more; it's just that it's been a while since I read the Pirandello, and I got interested in other things. Very much worth bringing up in the comment section.

Whoa. I didn't even remember coming up with my own Prisoner episode order. I hope it makes sense!

Weirdly, this make me laugh.

Huh. I have no idea why I thought it was Tom Jones. Anyway, thanks, I've corrected it.

Actually, we have roundabouts in the States too. (Boston. Ugh.) But noted.

"Think clean thoughts, chum."

"Jesus, you call this Feng Shui?"

There is nothing wrong with Z. NOTHING.

I'm now imagining a series of YouTube videos where the guy wanders into random places and shouts "I don't hear enough sex! Let's get it on!" Congress: "I don't hear enough sex! Let's get it on!" The petting zoo: "I don't hear enough sex! Let's get it on!" The subway: "I don't hear enough sex and I don't care what it…

Yeah, I'm not going to be doing that.

Yeah, I've been thinking about pitching a discussion along these lines to Todd as a possible Crosstalk; we're both fans of the show, but he's more enthusiastic about it than I am, and I'd like a chance to get into some of the reasons why I thought the fifth season faltered a bit. But I need to actually phrase my…

Jack breaks his arm while drunk, but he doesn't quit drinking until a few months later, when he and a friend run over a kid's bike in the middle of the road while drunk driving. The physical abuse only happened once, and there's no sexual abuse implied whatsoever; one of the things that makes the book effective is…

I couldn't get past his lisp.

No, I don't. I do like the show, and it has a terrific cast with some great scene-by-scene writing, but I think (especially in the second season) it suffers from too much going on, with too little narrative momentum and cohesion. It's like getting a dozen trailers for really interesting movies every week, but never…

Not by my estimation, no. And I don't consider Mad Men heavily serialized.

Breaking Bad is the better show as a whole; Mad Men arguably has the better individual episodes. And, with that mysterious pronouncement, I vanish!

Aw, you read my sentence.

I was just going to say this—I got the audiobook a year or two ago, and I've listened to it half a dozen times by now. (The audiobook for Bossypants is also excellent.)

That's one of the best things about the movie—Anthony Perkins ability to make you think of him as the underdog even though he's a twisted multiple murder—and while the show isn't going to be able to pull exactly the same twist as its source (I mean, I suppose theoretically you could see this without every having heard…

Well, I'm off the internet for the next four months. Have fun, everyone!