@avclub-3e89778b9ef82189a336a84b1546c976:disqus I really think the Faye Dunaway character drags that movie down, she seems like such an obvious satirical object and is never given a shred of decency or humanity. The characterization feels pretty sexist to me, like the movie's mocking these airhead women who think they…

Yeah I just meant new dramas, there'd be a ton of stuff ahead of The Americans if it were returning. I can't say I ever got the love for Arrow at all, I watched the first five or so episodes and thought it was dull and relentlessly mediocre…. I could just feel my interest waning as soon as I started it up. There just…

Assuming the Golden Age of Television was recent it has definitely passed… I would say that would be from about '97 to 2010 or so. We just really don't have that many good genre shows and the good comedies are starting to die or taper off… there really isn't much variety any more and even the great prestige shows are…

Why do they keep recasting him? It's making him look unrealistically young at this point.

I must be crazy because I thought season 3 was the best season and that there's been a definite, though not huge, drop in quality ever since then.

It would be pretty amazing if she just ended up randomly dropping dead in the final shot of Much Ado, just for the heck of it.

It is definitely heavily suggested in the movie that he isn't dead. I kind of wonder how large his role in the movies will be once the show gets rolling (assuming it sticks around): it seems like making the timeline work out could be pretty tricky. Is he scheduled to appear in any Phase 2 movies? I thought I heard he…

Nashville is definitely a show that would probably be one of my favorite things on tv if it was on FX or something, but the people working on that show seem to be ensuring it remains enjoyably mediocre. I like it but it should be a whole lot better.

Haven't network shows with shorter episode counts like Smash and The Following basically disproved this theory though? The problem is that networks aren't really willing to take risks, all the concepts for their shows need to follow a previously successful formula. If The Americans were a network show it would pretty…

Misfits is wildly inconsistent and is terrible at plotting out it's seasons though: they tend to climax somewhere around episode four and then tack on a pretty anticlimactic episode (or terrible Christmas special) on as a finale. I really think a tv season needs at least 10 episodes (with 12-16 being ideal), with only…

So what's your favorite drama of the season? The only competition I can even think of is Hannibal and that's only aired one episode. I agree that it's a bit overrated… I still think it's good with the potential to be great, but I never really look forward to it or feel like I have to watch it immediately.

I feel like it has to have been at least half a year, but I haven't been paying attention to the timeline at all.

It kind of feels like they wanted to get through all these story beats in the first season in case they got canceled (I assume the whole thing was filmed before airing). For some reason every spy show seems to constantly change up the status quo and race through story beats like this in a way that can feel kind of…

Seriously? Those two movies have aged really badly, whereas Taxi Driver looks as unique and vivid as ever.

Honestly I thought Kartheiser was pretty great on Angel: he was just given the most irritating character of all time, and he doesn't seem very interested as an actor in winning the audience over. Really I think he did pretty much the same he does as Pete on Mad Men, just that character is better written and has a lot…

I'm actually not that down on the show since as far as I know all the characters aside from Coulson are original and Whedon can pretty much do whatever he wants as long as it doesn't affect the rest of the universe. It doesn't really sound these characters are superheroes either, more like secret agent types. I'll…

@Scrawler2:disqus Huh, that surprises me somehow. I liked both of them a lot separately and they had good chemistry early on in the show, but I always kind of connected the Cordelia/Angel shipping with the decline of Cordelia as a character that was going on in season 3, and they just didn't seem right together. It…

Eh, I'm ok with it. Honestly I'd rather see Whedon and his team of writers deal with original characters, I liked The Avengers but kind of felt like he was hampered by having to stay within Marvel's guidelines: he can't really change the characters too much or do anything really strange or surprising with them. There…

I can see why @avclub-cf50b28ef624912ff106c57ca9be41dc:disqus had that impression though… for a while there on How I Met Your Mother it seemed like Hannigan would just be constantly pregnant and we would never ever see her waist again.

@avclub-554c0a0cbf2801f5b0ae39d67b921606:disqus Apparently Lenk has a lot of fans? I have no idea why, I find him completely insufferable. He was also never technically a series regular, though he certainly felt like it in that last season of Buffy.