I don't know how much you'd get out of it today, now that a lot of the new things it did are par for the course for both Superman and superheroes in general, but the first two seasons were pretty good. It's well-paced, funny, and Teri Hatcher in particular is fantastic as Lois. Unfortunately, in its last three…

I haven't seen any of the animated series, but I'm willing to bet that any performance by Clancy Brown has to be ranked pretty high.

No, I caught up with the episodes I missed. And there's plenty of Sara in the second part of S2.

It's interesting how clearly inspired by Smallville Arrow was (which was the main reason why I dropped it afte the pilot and didn't come back until the middle of the second season and a lot of convincing) and yet how the intervening years - and, I think, some of the things done by the MCU - enabled it to be a smarter,…

Well, what are the alternatives? Gene Hackman is great, but not Luthor-ish at all. And Kevin Spacey surely isn't even in consideration.

It is, but I think it's fair to point out that it mostly takes place in conveniently dark warehouses.

Overall, what I liked the most about Smallville was that it really brought Superman into the present.

Even more than that, I think I'd like it if at least some fantasy stories acknowledged that yes, systems get corrupted, but they're also the only way that human societies function, so instead of abandoning the idea of a system, maybe try to build it in such a way as to discourage corruption, while accepting that at…

Well, the actors who played the three brothers don't seem to have new series lined up, but both Angelique Cabral and Keith David have new jobs (in fact, David is working like a madman; his IMDb page is kind of scary).

Unless we're talking about really big names (and the only person on Daredevil that might apply to is D'Onofrio) I doubt that actors' salary makes up the bulk of any TV show's budget. Crew salary is probably a huge line item, though, and a show like Daredevil, which had a lot of locations and plenty of outdoors shoots…

As I said elsewhere in these comments, I think he does hesitate, but he does so because getting to Harry means running through active shelling and is extraordinarily dangerous. I couldn't blame anyone for hesitating under those conditions, and I don't think it undercuts his heroism. But I could easily imagine that…

I was enjoying it, but I started to lose patience last week. Five episodes in the show is already stuck in a formula that it doesn't seem at all interested in expanding except for miniscule movement on the Eddie Morra plot that probably won't build up to anything until the end of the season. There's already so much…

Fair enough - I'm not saying it shouldn't have been mentioned (though it was mentioned this week). But the people complaining so loudly about its not being the top pick are, by definition, the people who already knew it was going to air.

Reasonable people do not insult someone for not mentioning their favorite TV show.

Which is why it's utterly bizarre to get so bent out of shape over which show gets mentioned in this column.

Fargo airs on a cable channel. The rules are completely different for it. And it's not as if it hasn't gotten support from the site in the form of, oh yeah, the actual reviews that are its real substance.

A lot of people in this comment thread sure seem to, and with the women who promote them.

It's not that it was not the top pick, it's that it wasn't even listed at all two weeks in a row.

I loved this episode, but it also felt kind of derivative of Mozart in the Jungle's similar party episode (they both even feature John Hodgman). That's not necessarily a criticism, because I doubt that Mozart in the Jungle invented the trope of a party episode where the camera moves restlessly between the different…

I think it was more that Harry was pinned down, and that getting to him involved abandoning Walter's cover and running through an area that was being shelled. Hence Walter's hesitation before he did it - it was a legitimately heroic act and he was risking death or serious injury.