It's actually got some pretty hilly bits;  Washington Depot (the town which purportedly inspired Stars Hollow) is at the south end of the Berkshire Range. I live near the the same mountain range, albeit 90 miles further north.  It's not so much the topography that looks "wrong" to me as it is the vegetation;  it's far…

Lorelai & Rory mocking the other B&B guests felt unusually mean-spirited to me.  What's more, given that they were looking down their noses at the other guests, the whole farce about them being unable to leave felt really forced.  I couldn't see why they couldn't just leave the B&B to get dinner, or walk out past the…

It's remarkable how much the backwoods of New England look like the foothills of southern California, isn't it?

That's not America!  That's not even Mexico!

I'm going through GG for the first time right now, and as of this date I've watched about 1.5 seasons (i.e., Richard just retired.)  I have to say that I still can't tell Madeleine and Louise apart — I still think of them as "the blond one" and "the black-haired one", and their characters don't seem all that…

"Awake" showed up on Netflix Instant Streaming recently, which was a pleasant surprise.

I was expecting it to be utterly ignorable as well, but the combination of (a) Todd's glowing review, (b) Sepinwall & Feinberg's glowing review, and (c) Bryan Fuller's name on the project have made me think that I should actually watch it.  And I don't even particularly like the serial-killer genre.

So what's the Official Internet Consensus on Daniel Palladino episodes?  From reading about this show I've gotten the impression that they're somewhat divisive.  I've only watched up through part of Season 2 thus far, and while a few of his episodes seem like they're trying too hard (e.g., Donna Reed, Trip to Harvard)…

Other than that, though, his action-pact life seems pretty together.

Here's a pretty good account of Keanu Reeves playing Hamlet in Winnipeg:

I watched this episode recently with my American-born girlfriend, and I had to explain to her why the morgue attendant has a "favourite bird."

Yup, he arrives next week.  Deal with that.

"It's not weird, and in fact, it is notarized."

Keanu Reeves played the Stratford Festival?  I know he played Hamlet at the Manitoba Theatre Centre (I was in high school in Winnipeg then, and it was a BIG DEAL OMG), but I hadn't heard that he had also gone to Stratford.

[MILD SPOILER]  One of my very favorite scenes in the first season is when Claire is rehearsing Ophelia's mad scene.  Geoffrey gives her this long, impassioned explanation about why Ophelia is singing nonsense, and you can tell that it has entirely sloughed off of her without making the slightest difference.

I usually call them Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, but I only do it in my head.

It had the cadence of a joke.

It had the cadence of a joke.

UP AND AT THEM!

UP AND AT THEM!