I stopped watching after S1, but everything I've read about subsequent plot developments suggests that it's a show that consistently chooses the laziest, least ambitious stories to tell. There are a lot of interesting things that could have been done with AoS's original premise, a lot of interesting things that could…

Maybe in theory, but the first season's standalone episodes were terrible. They honestly seemed to have been written by someone who had never watched X-Files or Buffy or any other good genre procedural and thought they were reinventing the wheel with tepid, underwritten snoozefests.

I can see the argument of "AoS is a dud and we're not going to get new people interested in it because audiences tend to shrink, not grow. Why not take these two characters that people seem to like, and who lift out pretty easily, and start a new story with them?"

Having watched the movie, I honestly don't see how Team Cap is any way defensible (I kind of thought that before watching it, but the movie really makes it clear).

Depends on how the voting system works - if you rank your choices, vote-splitting isn't possible.

I think the King George songs are the ones that grab you at first, and then the rest of the show starts to clarify on subsequent listens - you get, for example, a much stronger sense of the characters as people and of the changes in their personalities and emotional states over the course of the story. It's possible…

I'm pretty down on Claire, but damn if Nina isn't the only person on the show that she has every right to look down on and call out. I think the show thinks it's telling a redemption story with Nina, but she's so unaware of her incompetence, and so uncaring about the damage she's caused, that I can't see my way to…

I'm so tired of that Silence of the Lambs fakeout. Guys, everyone has seen SotL. And even if they haven't, they've seen one of the million ripoffs of that scene that have been made in the 25 years since SotL. Give it a rest.

I honestly don't think Hamilton would work as a musical - it's a little too fantastical, and I think that trying to root it in realism would ruin the very things that work about it. What I'm hoping for is a filmed stage performance, which they did with the original casts of Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods, but which…

It's been really fascinating to watch this play out. Not the show, I mean - because as noted, everyone knew this was coming and it was handled in the most perfunctory, predictable way possible - but the entire circus around it. I kind of feel like Benioff and Weiss drank their own kool-aid about how they were…

Given what Ygritte did to Olly's parents, that was nothing but justice. And, in fairness, I didn't get the sense that either Jon or the Wildlings saw it as anything else. If he'd let it go after getting his revenge, I think they would have as well, and the problem was more that he was a child and not able to do that.

6) Everyone decides that the thing where John dated his psychiatrist was the effect of a gas leak. It's never spoken of again.

There's this scene in the second or third season where Bartlett tells Sam "you're going to be president some day." That was the moment I realized I was watching a slightly different show than the one Aaron Sorkin was writing, because if there was a future president among those characters, it was 100% going to be…

I gotta feel sorry for whoever gets nominated against Hamilton this year. They'll be lucky to even be mentioned in the press releases.

As pretty much the only person who wasn't blown away by the Cut-Wife episode last season, I was pleased to see the show give Patty Lupone a different role to play (with, thank all the saints, no ridiculous and unconvincing accent). I like the idea of Vanessa having a female friend (assuming that that is going to be…

You'd think the same thing would be true of UnREAL, though, and it had support from the site from day one (and rightly so). There was also a large contingent of commenters for that show, well out of proportion to its actual popularity (and not unlike what you see in the reviews for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), and I suppose…

Well, it took three weeks and a long holiday weekend, but I finally caught up with all the TV I missed during my, uh, twelve-day vacation. Stuff I watched in the last few days:

Except that as far as I know, it's pretty much historically proven that Eleanor Roosevelt was a lesbian. She may not have had a girlfriend who was a jazz singer, but she did have several long-term companions, including, I think, her secretary.

I get that that's the justification for the zombie bloodbath, but that still doesn't explain why the writers thought this was what we wanted to see. Or why their main characters - people who have been characterized throughout the season through their compassion and refusal to take lives - would just gleefully become…

Yeah, I know that's what everyone says, and I do admire The Americans a lot and will keep watching it for as long as it's on. But I just don't love it the way I love Better Call Saul, and I've never been able to entirely work out why. I guess to me it's a little too chilly, in a way that never allows me to forget…