See, I'm all for that, but maybe we could give Rafael storylines that don't get wrapped up in three episodes and are then never mentioned again?

Schwimmer's birthday feels like a good opportunity to mention that last week a post crossed my tumblr dashboard with some Friends jokes, and someone in the reblog chain chimed in with the Futurama "Why, does Ross, the largest friend…" joke.

Don't forget his and Michelle's early adoption of Hamilton. Hell, just inviting Lin-Manuel Miranda to the White House for "an evening of spoken word" and letting him perform the then completely-new opening number gives him endless cool points.

DD S2 basically told three different stories, each in about 4-5 episodes: capturing Punisher, Frank Castle's trial, and the whole ninja clusterfuck. Which is a big part of why I think the idea that the Netflix shows are too long is misguided. DD's approach to pacing its second season was actually quite smart. It…

I have to say, I'm really doubtful that this is a case of letting the story dictate the number of episodes. I suspect it's more a case of "the actors get paid by the episode, and this show has four headliners and a whole bunch of recurring characters from their respective shows, not to mention Sigourney Weaver."

The phrase I kept hearing yesterday was that the FBI director "serves at the pleasure of the president." In other words, he can be fired at any time, and may even have lodged a pro forma letter of resignation when he took the job, that Obama can accept at his leisure.

Alyssa Rosenberg is not my favorite pop culture critic - I often find her writing a little glib - but she's done yeoman's work with her recent series for the Washington Post, "Dragnets, Dirty Harrys, and Dying Hard," in which she looks at how entertainment, and particularly film and TV, have both shaped and been…

Yeah, I'm not even sure that's even a controversial opinion anymore, though more because Sherlock has been so up and down (and the fact that it only shows up every other year for three episodes at most doesn't exactly help to maintain the fandom). I definitely agree that Elementary is the better show, but I would…

Yay, my choice of Notorious in the bonus activity has almost completely won back all the points I made on shitty ballot choices! Seriously, how is The Great Indoors the second most successful pilot of the season?

I've seen speculation that Obama will fire Comey the day after the election, though that will leave a three month vacancy. I suppose it's possible that it will be made clear to him that his resignation is expected on January 21st, though being a Republican, one can hardly expect him to abide by the norms of dignified…

There are two women on the show who are currently pregnant, and one of them is pretty close to her due date. I wouldn't assume that Gretchen is going to be knocked up based just on that title.

Also, we've never actually seen him behave in abusive ways, a la Jimmy, Gretchen, and Lindsey. He's domineering towards Honeynutz and Shitstain, and there was the feud between them last season, but even then he never actually did anything truly mean or hurtful.

Yes, because James actually gives Don Pedro a personality. One of the biggest problems of the Brannagh film is how it ignores the weirdness of Don Pedro's behavior (I mean, it's not an actual problem, because there's so much else going on in the film that you don't really notice it, but when you read the play it…

Not bad, exactly, but really disappointing, because it proves just how shallow Whedon's understanding of the play is, and how limited his ideas were about staging it effectively. It's not that the world wasn't ready for a naturalistic, modern-dress Much Ado, but it takes more than just putting the cast in a modern…

I thought CBS's target audience was people who are afraid of technology that has existed for twenty years.

In a world in which network TV got six seasons out of the idea that you can use math to solve crimes, there's really no justification for not being able to make a solid procedural out of the intersection of technology and medicine. Hell, half the documentaries on TV are about doctors using cutting edge techniques and…

I believe you mean "Renowned Disqus commenter hannahk2012".

I'm enjoying No Tomorrow, but it's certainly the shallower, sillier version of Jane the Virgin's emotional depth and complex comedy. And I think it must have helped JtV a lot that it was so well reviewed, including by prestigious outlets, at the outset, whereas NT hasn't been (and doesn't really deserve to be).

I liked the musical, but I didn't love it (and it was sort of a make-do choice because the shows I really wanted to see, Hamilton and Fun Home, were, respectively, sold out and recently concluded). If you liked the movie, you'll probably like the show, which is basically the exact same thing but with pleasant songs. …

Any information on how Westworld is doing? It was a little esoteric to begin with, and given how bitty and withholding the last couple of episodes have been, I wouldn't be surprised if people are dropping out.