A) I feel pretty confident a lot more people watched Sense8 than Transparent. Transparent just released a new season, but when Sense8 first dropped, I seemingly couldn't avoid seeing stuff about it. It's just that that was months ago.

I'm trying really hard not to look forward to GoT so that it can exceed my expectations (as opposed to last year where I got excited and then it disappointed me), but I can't help it. I'm a goddamn nerd. My heart continues to hype.

I'm so happy UnREAL was ranked so high. It was frequently a mess, but I don't care. I love it so.

I read each and every one of those as "unstable," and didn't question it at all.

It's hard to talk about this without getting into spoilers, but I think it's important that there's both a grain of truth to a lot of his arguments in self-defense and they're still overall bullshit. Yeah, there are plenty of things you tell people to do without thinking about it, but that's also clearly not…

Sorry, thanks. Too many blondes!

To be fair, the first few episodes of Dollhouse were also terrible.

Agreed! I think the search for Hope could have been a background plot for a couple episodes, mixed in with other cases, as the show gradually drops hints about Jessica's past trauma. We'd find out Hope is with Killgrave a few episodes in, the next episode would be spent finding her, and would end with Hope being…

Certainly, developing powers like that at a young age, you'd basically never need to develop empathy, since you'd never have to figure out anyone else's feelings.

I think they also had the option to make up new material (or talk to GRRM and ask where she's headed).

Sansa's had about 2 chapters worth of material in the books to compare any of this with, so I don't know that book comparisons at this point would be appropriate.

Certainly the reaction to Sansa's rape was more extreme, and there's a whole conversation to be had about how male experiences of sexual violence are often downplayed or dismissed, but to be fair, at the point of his torture, Theon was just coming off of betraying 'our heroes,' murdering two small children, and his…

The Americans, Mad Men, and Better Call Saul are all stronger contenders for No.1 than The Leftovers.

I see this brought up a lot, and I feel like a lot of people complained about the gratuity of Theon's torture scenes at the time they aired, so I'm not sure where that's coming from. I don't remember reading a single positive thing about those scenes.

Yeah, I've only seen season 1, but those episodes were definitely longer than 30 minutes.

I really feel like I must have watched a completely different show than the one that apparently went out to critics. Is it me? Could I be that butthurt over deviations from books I didn't even particularly like? Are my standards for logical plot developments and even pacing too high? Do I want a good girl, but need…

There's so much TV I would probably like but didn't see that I'm just gonna rank everything I watched this year. If it's not on the list, I either didn't watch it or I'm not fully caught up.

Also, Colton's adopted family was hardly 'wretched.' More like, backwards. They were clearly loving and supportive of Colton.

Looking at her IMDB, A Serious Man seems like it was her first legit role, which is just crazy to me. She feels so strongly like someone who's been around forever. She's just so comfortable in front of the camera.

I have! Although it was years and years ago and I don't remember it that well. Probably worth a re-read…[glances at several-hundred-entry-long list of books to read]…eventually.