I kept watching but the show never recovered and I quit when Yang left (but wasn't killed, thankfully).

A badly handled character death often signals that a show is no longer very good.

I quit LOST when the killed Mr. Eko, though I wouldn't have stayed with
the show for much longer in any case - ALIAS taught me not to
over-invest in a JJ Abrams production (that show ended terribly).

They were supposed to switch it out for a fake bug but Gillian ate it on the first take, because she's a bad ass.

Guess it helps that I stopped watching in Season 7 - I had no idea that CSM had been blown up (isn't he Mulder's dad?). I was deeply disappointed that Annet Mahendru was so underused and then eliminated, though she did a fantastic job with the little she was given. Back in the day X-Files scripts were written by…

I didn't realize they the instances cited in the review were nods at all, the scenes just played out. I agree, the nods are neither distracting nor unnecessary, more like easter eggs for the cognoscenti.

It made no sense to me why the programmers would include the label "animal" in the first place. It's way way too general - "animal" includes everything from ants to elephants. Would it really been more offensive for the algorithm to misidentify dark skinned faces as "monkey" or "gorilla"? That error would obviously…

To each his own. TGW can barely keep my attention this season - I've fallen asleep before the end of roughly half the eps. I only became a regular viewer in season 4, but I've watched S1-3, and this is by far the worst season. If by some unfortunate miracle this isn't the last season, I'm done, I might not even tune…

I just watched the episode on demand this morning and I completely agree. I kept asking myself "Were these characters always this flat and cartoony and I just forgot because it's been awhile or has something changed?" Eventually, it didn't matter, by the time it got to the fight I was over them and that plot. It…

I tuned in late, just as Courtney Barnes was pleading and it went down hill from there. I've only ever tolerated Mary Murphy but her absence was huge. I'll also add to the chorus condemning the new format - no choreography? Nope.

Lily Tomlin is the only one who transcends the material, she somehow makes the clunky dialogue sound like speech from an actual human being. And I agree that Sam Waterston's portrayal is perfect. But the writing is just so awful. Are we actually supposed to care about the adult kids? Why? Nothing any of them do makes…

I know a man named Lasagna who, when he proposed, told his wife it was ok if she didn't take his name (she did). I know another guy who had a difficult family life growing up who took his wife's name as a fresh start. My divorced sister still uses her ex-husband's name - she was married so long she uses both maiden…

I poo-pooed friends and commenters who said the State's Attorney's race would be bad for the show, and boy was I wrong. Every character but Alicia has been sidelined this season, turned into plot contrivances or used in heavy handed social commentary. All the life and breezy fun got sucked out of the show, way more of…

Really didn't read that final shot at all as referring to Elizabeth being a threat to Reagan. I thought it was clearly about the threat that Reagan poses to Elizabeth, her family - both in the US and the USSR - and everything she believes in and has sacrificed her life for.

I had a really hard time buying that Rudy would allow Cal to walk away after witnessing him shoot Seth. I can't imagine that a trainer soldier would leave a witness behind. It took me out of the moment completely.

Coming to the TV recap section of a pop culture website and expecting no commentary on recently aired TV sure makes you sound smart and hip. You are so much more discerning than the average web surfing couch potato.

NO. Nope. The character of Will Gardner died over a year ago. Josh Charles was on David Letterman the day after discussing his departure, and did some of the morning shows too. Spoiler alerts for something that happened last year are ridiculous and childish.

Well, there's a huge difference between intended impact and unintended impact.

TGW is definitely a show that got better over the years, unlike Grey's which did not. However, this season of TGW was a big letdown IMO and the Kings are also capable of losing control of a story/character - Kalinda and the election being the prime examples.

Viewers of TV drama expect good writing. I honestly don't see how anyone can defend the writing on the TGIT block. The performances? Sure. But endless monologues and cliche big moments do not add up to good drama, even on a nighttime soap. It's not that she kills off characters, it's that she does it badly, it's the…