I thought her rejection of the necklace was understandable, because it was kind of transactionalizing her forgiveness of Noah. Like, "Hey, baby, good job forgiving me for cheating on you and lying about it! Here, have a necklace!" I mean, the whole thing was a little tacky on his part.

Crikey O'Reilly!

I always thought this situation on Louie was a bit weird — why not just point out to the kid "OK, you can beat me up, but when the cops get here, which one of us do you think they're going to believe?"

It falls down in terms of implying that this is a gender thing. I think there are plenty of men who are turned on by watching women stand up for themselves or others as well. It's just another way of manifesting confidence and showing that you care about someone, which are both pretty gender-neutral and totally…

Here, here!

I also never enjoyed the Winston-cop plot, but I am excited for the B99-like potential that it brings.

I'm floored by the grade for this episode. A-, really? Yes, Taraji P. Henson is giving an A+ performance, and yes, the show is tackling social issues and that's really cool and I want that to keep happening. But the writing and direction need serious work. The episode was a disconnected mess of scenes, as if someone…

Yes! It was incredibly poorly written — it felt more like a collection of scenes, or the first draft of a script, than like a real episode of television — and the directing was definitely uneven. I love that the show is tackling social issues, I love that it's helping to increase minority representation on TV, and I…

upvote for Bletchley Circle! Jarvis seems way better than Susan's husband…

Is that typewriter thing something that could actually happen? I was so distracted in those scenes, trying to figure out how it worked.

Reaper! Such an underrated show.

Fun fact, you can look at your own email metadata if you want, e.g.:

Yep, I am mostly lactose tolerant and I just don't like milk. It happens.

Minuses are made up!

It just hit me that Rodrigo is sort of a male Manic Pixie Dream Girl. He's very attractive, he's impulsive and whimsical, he's self-centered enough and enough of a protagonist that everyone else is forced to accommodate his impulsive whimsicalness and ultimately everyone is charmed by it and loves it, and he and…

I hope they keep reviewing them in chunks like this. It's not clear with this one if there are problems resulting from it being the Christmas-New Year's holiday week, or from this being a fairly niche show, or what. But overall I really like the binge-friendly review pacing. If only Orange is the New Black had been…

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Same! In fact, now I understand the picture so much better. It's not a shot of most of his body, it's just his face! That pointy thing at the bottom is his chin! I…I feel like I could go out and understand the whole world, now.

I know all of my feminist-blog-reading friends would turn this into "Dan Savage says women should always have sex even if they don't want to!!!!!" But…they do hang out on tumblr most of the time, and they're certainly among the most radical of my (mostly very feminist and liberal) friends. Maybe I just don't read…

I don't know about the AV Club, but several tech people I know had a problem with The Social Network, especially with the part where Zuckerberg was very social-status-obsessed. Here's some links: