On the contrary: I've really enjoyed this revival, and would actually like to see more. Sure, it's been all over the place but its never not been entertaining, Duchovny and Anderson have been fantastic, and there have been a couple of properly good episodes in there. I wouldn't want it to go on forever, I'd like some…

On Twitter Sonia Saraiya mentioned this episode deserves the A/F grade that Todd VDW suggested once on an episode of American Horror Story, and I completely agree.

Agreed. And I feel like the wide variety in tones is reminiscent of how the show actually was much of the time.

I know I'm three years too late, but dammit, now I need an episode of something where Ron Swanson and Walter Skinner meet each other. They would become best friends and go on fishing trips together where they sit in complete silence.

Especially since I think that film was also supposed to launch a new trilogy

You're assuming that readers are going to see the letter grade and not explore anymore. There are readers who will do that. They would not have read the full review anyway, either because they didn't care, or their stupid. Can't cater to the apathetic and the stupid.

S2 was inconsistent, but not in a way that undermined any of the show's fundamental elements. More just like 'oh, this plot kind of sucks.' Nothing they can't move on from. Compared to other Showtime shows like Dexter and Homeland that didn't just falter, they undermined their own premises.

Why? Isn't one of the primary reasons for the existence of criticism helping viewers decide what's worth their time and what's not?

I wouldn't say TWD has more story advancement, since it has no actual story, but I'd say it's more honest about its story than GOT is, and this makes it a less frustrating show at this point (not a good one though). TWD promises you zombies and cheap nihilism, and it delivers zombies and cheap nihilism. GOT promises…

I'm nearly at the end of S8, and I'd agree with pretty much all of this. Though I'd say the first half of S6 is probably the weakest run of episodes the show has had from what i've seen; but the second half is really damn good, once they give Rebecca a character and not every episode is about Sam sexually harassing…

Oh lordy, I'm only on S8 and didn't know about this, and all through the Rebecca years I've been thinking 'this would be better if they leaned away from Sam sexually harassing her.' Now I already hate S10. I'll still watch it of course- only 3 seasons left, may as well.

To be fair, that phrase was said by Jessa. Although I'm not quite sure what the writers are doing with Jessa most of the time, they do seem to generally encourage us to believe that much of what she says is complete bullshit.

Fun fact: Peter Garrett, the singer of Midnight Oil, was a Minister in Rudd's government.

I agree; it didn't really bother me or strike me as that difficult. But it does require a serious commitment even before you've read a page, and a lot of people understandably find the idea quite intimidating.

Actually, This is Water was my intro, and it's one of my favourite pieces of writing, period. So yeah that's a good starting point too.

Very good book with some absolutely incredible sections. But in order to not scare people I'm more inclined to tell them to go read some of his essays as an introduction. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again is one of my ten favourite books.

I watched that episode recently, because I'd read the David Foster Wallace essay it was partly paying homage to [though Wallace of course thought cruise's were awful, to put it lightly]. I liked the first 10 minutes quite a bit, but then as is typical of New Simpsons it takes a silly left turn and becomes far more…

There is no show that I've fallen in and out of love with faster than Veronica Mars. First season is great, got 12 episodes into S2 and had to stop because it was so boring and overstuffed. Nothing I've heard about S3 or the movie has tempted me to pick it back up.

To me it still kind of works in spite of that because even though Mulder is right in all but a couple of the episodes I've seen (i've seen through to the end of S3), he's still so goddamn crazy, showing up at every crime scene and declaring the craziest thing he can think of to be the explanation. I know he's always…

Yes, make it a ten hour Jose Chung's. Just a conclusion that basically says 'god, why are you all so interested in the idea of alien conspiracies? Is it because you're lonely and are frightened of the cold, indifferent universe we inhabit? Also, P.S. Mulder is silly, Scully forever."