I dig you @avclub-13d7df3c17502af69aafccc758195f96:disqus so I dig your comment, but I think it's hard to diss a show for being misogynist when it plays both sides of the coin. Harvey and Mike are frequently displayed/promoted as eye candy (would anyone argue that fact?), so the show should be skewered for being…

This movie was fairly well made and competently acted, but bottom line I couldn't accept the basic premise of the movie (or the books), despite the underlying theme of a dystopian society. Not only did it madden me that millions of people would cheer as children had their throats slit on TV, but the notion that…

I subscribe to Showtime and not to HBO because Showtime has a higher quantity of watchable premier-cable shows than HBO does.

The show is getting shat on for not being fast-paced and ostensibly for not building character (literally, as the reviewer stated, "in the first five minutes" of the pilot).

Magic City. Yeah, that's fuckin' right, Magic fuckin' City. Fuck y'all.

It's either funny or sadly ironic that I watched NTSF for the first time ever while staying in a hotel (Embassy Suites) at the Comic-Con. My two roommates, both veteran comic-book professionals who generally overlook modern TV because they're too busy actually creating comic-book content, both agreed it was a…

$50k a year for an experienced blood spatter expert seems a little low for a city as large as Miami. I'd think it would be nearly double that. One website states: "Susan White of the Kaycircle website presents an even larger range, indicating that rates can be as high as $160,000 for very experienced analysts."

That Deb's blood was only on that one little piece of glass was implausible, but the fact that a trusted forensic investigator could surreptitiously slip a tiny bit of evidence into his pocket was certainly not. Homicide detectives don't have sixteen eyes and twelve ears that continually survey every physical action…

God damn red herrings. The most despised trope in TV. Damned if you do (The Killing) and damned if you don't (Dexter).

I would've liked your comment because of its shallow insightfulness, but then I paused because you said it was "a shitty show." Then it became worse when you posited that Dexter will end up having no moral agency, as if the show was a complete waste of time from the series premiere. So, never mind, you think it's…

@avclub-871a6f53ba8bda0e260763ab2cf3b1c8:disqus Showtime managed to cancel The Borgias easily enough.

"You come to me now, 12 days before my death sentence??!!"

No. That was exactly the type of "visual image" I alluded to. It was clearly intended to be noticed, but not extrapolated into a deeper integration with the storyline. If there were 15 of those types of images, I'd be bitching about "heavy handed," but it was a lone image that merely echoed one of the show's theme's…

While I don't disagree with the skepticism and frustration expressed in previous posts, I quite enjoyed this episode. It helps that I stopped watching the show about 1/3 into the second season (after watching ALL of the first) because it felt boring (right around the time the main group encountered the old regime in…

I also found it humorless, and that's a bad thing for an ostensibly bad-ass show to be. But, I will say I wasn't bored, since I enjoyed learning about the characters. But if the show moves as stereotypically as Todd describes, by the fifth episode I'm probably going to bored and give up on the show.

Zack, you state that "a romantic partner doesn’t help you solve your own problems," and "it’s doubtful marrying Faye would’ve helped [Don]." You may be right about the latter, but I'm not so sure about either statement. Don is attracted to, and marries, women who are pliable to his needs. I can't imagine that if we…

Zack, you state that "a romantic partner doesn’t help you solve your own problems," and "it’s doubtful marrying Faye would’ve helped [Don]." You may be right about the latter, but I'm not so sure about either statement. Don is attracted to, and marries, women who are pliable to his needs. I can't imagine that if we…

I watched it a couple weeks ago and Lily called Sy because she was really worried that Ben was going to kill her. As I recall, Lily was basically begging for Sy's help but he was in no mood to do anything for her. I don't think the call was meant to indicate that Lily was keeping an eye on Ben for Sy, but it might've…

Hannibal and The Americans are neck and neck with Mad Men and Breaking Bad in my top five TV shows of 2012-2013. You can't disparage The Americans for overall quality and retain any credibility as a TV connoisseur.

They are, indeed, both incredible shows.