YES. Thank you for saying that about the wig. After making such a big deal about it in the first season, that felt like a really strange oversight.

I'm wondering if that isn't some kind of hint by way of misdirection. That it's actually Wes's mother whose murder was made to look like a suicide, not Asher's father.

Yeah, I think Genevieve is right that we really needed to see that mythical conversation between Sherlock and Fiona that has them so spun about, because their actual interactions in this episode felt awkward and not at all full of chemistry. And while I get that Sherlock is different, his form of difference is not…

Yeah, I know that's how Whedon likes to spin it, but frankly, it strikes me as self-justifying bullshit. Especially coming from a writer who made his mark and his name by subverting the audience's expectations. For Whedon to present himself as a hapless technician who is simply giving the audience what they want is…

Honestly, I'd be more concerned about the nebulousness of the "far far away" galaxy's legal system. We can probably assume a fairly rigorous legal code during the time of the Old Republic, but my guess is that under the Empire (which after all had the ability to disband the senate at will) many of those laws, or at…

It's a British company being sued by the British government over a violation of British health and safety standards that occurred on British soil. Should be pretty straightforward. It's only getting international play because the worker involved is Harrison Ford, but if it had been a non-famous actor, or some random…

Well, again, if the alternative is the end of humanity, it still seems like a no-brainer.

I enjoyed Cabin in the Woods, but I had a lot of problems with it. Its meta-commentary about horror movies isn't nearly as clever as it thinks, and the moment that it clearly wants to set up as a major moral dilemma - is it OK to sacrifice a single innocent for the sake of the survival of the entire human race - is…

Cabin in the Woods actually goes the other way with this. The five vacationers are generally nice, kind people, who are decent and respectful to one another, and serious about their studies and relationships. The cabin staff has to drug them to get them to act silly and promiscuous, and even then they're really not…

Looking at how the CW is carrying weird, niche shows like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and (to a lesser extent) Jane the Virgin despite their rock-bottom ratings, I keep thinking that Bunheads would have been a great fit there. I keep wishing, as you say, that it had premiered a few years later on that channel.

He is seriously overlooked by fiction and popular history, isn't he? I suppose that's what you get for bridging a decades-long dynastic struggle and one of the longest and most soap opera-ish reigns in your country's history (which included, but is by no means defined by, a break with the center of your religion and…

They take the devil being retired from the running of hell and running a nightclub in Los Angeles, which seems a little too specific to pretend that it's not based on the Gaiman/Carey character. Calling it an adaptation might simply be a way to avoid lawsuits.

Definitely agreed about Jessica Jones. Its episodes were a lot more self-contained than Daredevil's, and I think it might even have worked better as a week-by-week show.

I'm hardly an expert, but I imagine that while you can amortize the costs of things like sets and costumes and props, the big ticket item, manpower, increases according to your production schedule.

Another way of putting it might be that the networks are moving closer to the British model of TV, where you make short seasons that don't necessarily appear one year after the other, and are often dependent on actor availability (see Sherlock for a recent, high profile example). It's a model that often produces good…

Yeah, if I'd known this show featured people projectile-vomiting blood, I might have actually watched it.

I think it's time to admit that "one-off" (or "limited series event") actually means "we have every intention of bringing this back if the ratings are good enough, but because it's a chancy proposition we're hedging our bet so we won't be too embarrassed if it crashes and burns." The X-Files has had decent ratings,…

I think a lot of people went into The Good Wife know Czuchry from Gilmore Girls, and the first season certainly seemed to play up to it. His character definitely felt like one way that Logan would behave straight out of college, in world where his race, gender, and privilege didn't turn out to be handing him quite…

Back in the TWOP days, the recapper for Gilmore Girls was known for having a pretty dubious attitude to the show, and one week she just went off on a genuinely hate-filled tear about how much she despised Rory (who was in Yale by this point) and her complete obliviousness to how privileged she was. At the time my…

I feel like Jess could probably have grown into a pretty decent person (and there were signs of this in his final appearance on the show, when he apologizes to Luke for all the trouble he put him through). But I also think that he'd probably be with someone else by now, and so would Rory and Logan and even Dean. I'm…