Well, at least The Sopranos was a 21 episode split season. This is actually just splitting the show in half and saying, with a shameless shrug, "Sorry, but we got nothing."

How can you properly review a season - or in this case a half season - without seeing the finale? Imagine excluding "The Wheel," "Shut The Door, Have a Seat," or "In Care Of" (etc) from the conversation of the season, especially if you're going around throwing grades at it and so forth.

Ryan should have been gone after season four. There is such a disconnect between his characterization in 1-4 to the rest of the show, which actually is saying something when you see the escalation from season three to season four. Plus it didn't stretch the docu-realism so much as explode it.

I agree, although based on their interactions with customers, I find it much easier to believe that Michael was the top salesman in the company than Dwight.

You are correct - she is a bit "meh" about the whole thing. Part of that is because she hates almost every character. I don't understand how, but it makes watching it difficult at times. I know what you mean, though. We can't really discuss anything, which detracts a bit from the experience.

The ending of Lost castrated the quality of the whole series for a lot of people, partly because it invalidated about a third of the sixth season's story. If you were to remove the entire flash sideways segments and then showed season six to a first time viewer, they would barely notice/not notice at all. The only…

Watching it in a binge vs when it aired may make it less frustrating, but it also makes it less rewarding. I am marathoning it with my girlfriend and she, having never seen it, commented on a character's death with, "I liked him, but I feel like he was in it for a couple of weeks." The impact of death and reveals and…

I suppose this is technically a spoiler, but my favourite Lisa child sequence is in the Brother From Another Series episode, in which Bart tricks her into doing things with offers of Wendy's. She seems so gullible.

I've recently started watching the Rebecca years of Cheers. Sam has shifted into someone on the cusp of becoming a sex offender. He asks Rebecca out; Rebecca says no. He says sleazy remark about Rebecca and asks her to bang; she says no. This happens repeatedly each episode. It actually makes me uncomfortable.

Bill Simmons? Columns? Surely you mean podcasts.

I don't care for it when a character drives over to someone's house for a one minute scene to sum up the episode's concerns or to pass along information offhandedly, etc. This is especially true when the information could easily be passed on via phone call, text message, or the next time they saw each other. "Hey, I…

Hmmm. Agreed.