Yeah I was wondering what was going on since they aren't credited for directing IMDB. That's unfortunate, I wonder how much they would have been improved in the original edits. The Polish brothers definitely sound interesting, I'll have to check out their first few films.

It's definitely of a piece with those two (I consider them an unofficial trilogy) in the way all three share the Hollywood setting and deal with fractured identities and comment on the nature of directing and acting, but I think it's the boldest, most unique and radical film of the three, even if it's a lot sloppier…

Not really sure how Inland Empire fits that description: visually and structurally it's quite different from any of his other films. Not to mention that it's one of his best and most challenging films.

S6 went weirdly out of it's way to reference "Restless"… presumably the writers were more focused on odd things like that than in putting together decent episode structures or crafting snappy and funny dialogue.

BSG was definitely a remake, though the line between that and a reboot is quite thin.

Except Hannibal's about as good as cancelled. And there's already a winner in this fight..
The Following. I'll be surprised if this doesn't at least get another season.

Gotta wonder who wrote that one. I'm hoping it was Nugent, he's easily the worst writer on staff (though Rabin's tv reviews would have him beat, and McGee and Sims are bad).

Seriously, how does that look anything like Obama? The race of the devil was a bit of a questionable decision though…

All of the dream sequences in Six Feet Under were pretty excellent (and very frequent), I actually like them better than a lot of the dreams in The Sopranos (and way more than Mad Men). I liked how they were very brief, and pertained to what was going on in a very indirect way (though it stumbled a bit there in the…

That was pretty great, but it's more a controlled, Inception style trance than something that resembles a dream you would actually have. Actually, how come no one ever mentions that as something that Inception "ripped off"?

@avclub-9024f9f0a80d2d248c7c6efb2e715c37:disqus Lost definitely didn't seem to have any kind of full series plan till near the end of season 1 (and I think they were still working on it through season 2 and the first part of season 3), and similarly it was Cuse and Lindelof that ended up putting it together, not J.J.…

I'm not quite sure why people seem so desperate for another season of TSCC: the way it ended was really cool and could have lead to good things… but I kind of doubt it. The series as a whole was inconsistent at best and painfully dull at worst, and the writers consistently wasted the strong supporting cast (especially…

This is because the asides only tell us what's happening in the plot, but don't tell us anything enlightening about the characters, which is the opposite of how it should be. They've really wasted a potentially useful and interesting device by only utilizing it as a cheap exposition tool. It's probably my biggest…

For a minute I thought that was actually the name of the season, which would be pretty hilarious, but only because I didn't realize that it wasn't yet announced that the season will be about witches. It just seems so obvious as a route they hadn't gone down yet (I'm still amazed that there wasn't a single cameo from a…

Probably more like recycling ideas that they thought were interesting and didn't use to their full potential: this happens quite a bit with genre shows.

I'd say Bonnie has a pretty major arc this season. Sure it all reeks of being a plot device (as does everything involving Bonnie) but her character is getting developed and going new places, even if it's not terribly well executed.

Can't they smell blood? He could have stumbled on the first one and then figured out there were probably more. Or Bonnie could have just told him.

He was filling in for Sims. It really was a terrible review: for some reason he decided to use a review of the best episode to air all his grievances with the season, which I would have completely agreed with… if it were a review for any other episode.

I was really liking this one for a while after the trainwreck that was the previous episode: it was well paced, the political stuff seemed more believable than usual, and the Russo story is developing really nicely. But then all that goodwill went out the window with that groan inducing, ridiculous final scene with…

Seriously, Sonnenfeld was fired from that show early on for going way over budget, and that was on ABC. Fuller's style really doesn't go hand in hand with getting things made cheaply, a low budget Pushing Daisies movie simply wouldn't work. Veronica Mars is the perfect show for this kind of thing, since like most late…