Wow, I might actually have to watch these.

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is still the best classic sci-fi I've ever seen. Both of them.

The fourth season was fantastic, if they'd only ended it with "Worlds Apart." You really couldn't have asked for a better season finale.

Is this the real Broyles or alt-Broyles? Or… wait, weren't there like four different versions of Broyles? Come to think of it, with all the counterfeit gimmick accounts, the AV Club is beginning to seem like FRINGE.

Wait, Roger Allam isn't the main character?

We need a thread for best British detective series. I tried watching the acclaimed Kenneth More "Father Brown" series, but the production values were kind of awful.

He did a fantastic audio recording of the Decameron (and I think he may have also been in the Arkangel production of Measure for Measure). But yeah, I still can't see him without hearing the words, "Muslims… homosexuals… disease-ridden degenerates!"

lol, are you just trolling now? :)

You had me at Roger Allam. I'll definitely be watching this.

Now I'm re-imagining the statement as a stealth Borges reference.

Fun fact: Zooropa was released twenty years ago today!

Just read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and you'll be good.

@avclub-6a2ec3076bb494e5c64eb1a422d9fe3d:disqus David Copperfield is absolutely, without question, in the top tier of Dickens' novels. It was my favorite book from the time I was nine years old.

@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus I had an English professor in college who refused to read Barnaby Rudge because she had read every other Dickens novel, and she didn't want to be that woman who had every Dickens novel.

I'm just starting this one, too. Some people say it's his best novel. I thought I had read it, but it turns out I was thinking of "The Old Curiosity Shop." Imagine my surprise!

This is easily one of the most entertaining books ever written.

Just starting The Kraken. Super-excited!

". . . when like some noxious afrite from the halls of Eblis, typhoid stalked glaringly through Arkham!"

This, which is why I love it.

Thanks for reminding me that I need to read Harlan Ellison. Also, Borges is the greatest.