You seem to have a preternatural insight as to what the "goals" of Helix were. Are you a magical TV unicorn? Are you The Television Whisperer? Truly, your talents are being wasted on a message board. You should have your own reality show! Here's my elevator pitch: every week a group of strangers, from all walks…

It's an AVclub review. The fact that they hate it should make you that much more determined to watch it. Emily Mortimer is never going to fit into the role of Mary Sue for Sad Bloggers that is a prerequisite for support on this site.

Is that right? Well, I'm relieved to know that New Girl keeps on getting stellar reviews because AVclub correctly determined that the show's "ambition" was to be a "steaming pile of idiotic bullshit, week after week". Ambition realized! And Girls keeps on getting amazing reviews because the ostensible ambition of…

This is increasingly the AVclub's modus operandi: take vile, repellant shows and pretend that they're the *best thing ever*, then take competent/watchable shows and treat them as if they're *liquid AIDS*. It's the Pitchfork effect: at this point, the reviews have less to do with the content being reviewed and more to…

When I heard about The Men, I thought there was a chance these guys had reunited: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

At this point it's easier to list the bands that Dave Grohl *isn't* a member of.

Brennan directed 10 episodes. Bobcat Goldthwait directed a few as well. But the guy who directed the most episodes of the show was Rusty Cundieff, the man who brought us the amazing rap mockumentary Fear of a Black Hat.

What color… sorry, "colour" is the sky in my world? Interesting question. I suppose it's the same "colour" as the asshole that currently encloses your head.

Congrats on a masterwork of disingenuously quippy bullshit. I'm certain you'll be working full-time for AVclub by the end of the month.

"Even Elementary’s take on Watson is more complex and interesting."

"pilots like the Katherine-Heigl-starring CIA series State of Affairs"

Well… until Helix becomes a meditation on how hard life is for rich privileged white girls facing the terror of a zombie outbreak, I'm pretty sure the AVclub is going to keep shitting on the show. Sadly, Brian Williams and David Mamet have but so many kids… and there just aren't enough rich girls to fill out the ranks…

That's not really the vibe I got from the pilot(s). It's dark sci-fi/horror with some corporate/military conspiracy thriller thrown in.

Tell you what: you go ahead and come up with a new term that you'd prefer to be used in place of "showrunner". Then, convince the people who make television programs to switch to your term, instead of the one they had already been using. Then get back to us, informing us of this new term that you invented and is now…

Nice to see the Neko Case album on the list. Especially after the AVclub took a massive dump on the album in its own review.

What was this? Seriously, what the hell was this? Who was this for? It wasn't for adults, based on the sickeningly sweet bits between Gaga and the Muppets. And, based on the music performances, it sure as hell wasn't for kids… too much cleavage and suggestive lyrics and elderly pop icons and general weirdness for…

Of course, Grunge is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that we all continue to pretend that Lena Dunham is talented.

I liked the scene where Olivia Pope got trapped on the elevator with an adorable 9-year old with inoperable brain cancer… but was it realistic for her to perform life-saving pocketknife brain surgery on the youngster while keeping her white pantsuit totally blood-free? While weeping. And laughing. And being sexy. …

And Knocked Up, is by a wide margin, the most watchable film she's starred in.

Flaws?