Look, I get why the rest of Hollywood has seemingly failed to notice that Rhea Seehorn had her own character arc on S2 of Better Call Saul, which she carried with an aplomb that far outshone repetitive, one-note storylines like the one the show once again gave Mike. But I expected better from the AV Club. To only…

In general, 2016 was not a great TV year, but I did enjoy the following fall/late summer shows:

Not an exhaustive list: Titania is Hyppolita's ex instead of Theseus's; Flute the Rude Mechanical is gay; Demetrius is temporarily bewitched into falling into love with Lysander; and the whole thing ends with what is basically a gay pride parade.

Oh, and because I know that you were all in desperate need of this, here is the Official ranking of Black Mirror episodes:

In fairness, The Hollow Crown S2 is pretty unimpressive. Even Richard III feels more dutiful than anything else, and Cumberbatch's performance seems by the numbers even to someone like myself, who has never seen the play and only read bits of it.

Greetings from Switzerland! I'm waiting for the gate for my flight to the UK to be announced. In the meantime, I'm glad to report that Zurich international airport has pretty good wifi, as in "watch the last half hour of the last Black Mirror episode on Netflix" good.

Well, I've gone from below the fold to 8th place, so obviously some good choices were made last week. It's kind of amazing to me that I'm doing so well considering that two shows still on my ballot - The Great Indoors and MacGyver - are sluggish but doing quite well in their timeslots.

To me that's complicated by the following:

I'm honestly stunned by how good this episode was. Arrow has always been my favorite of the DC CW shows, and pretty near the top of the list of my favorite superhero shows from any source (at its best, it comes second only to Jessica Jones). But I had resigned myself to the thought that its best days were behind it,…

Yes, because that's how the story is structured. But if it had been structured differently, we'd have a genuinely interesting moral dilemma running through the film, and a conflict between Strange and the other characters in which there is no obvious right side. Which sounds a great deal more interesting than the…

I honestly don't know which of the films I'd class as better - I think in the end I was too annoyed by the predictability of Doctor Strange's entire middle segment, and by the very idea that we need yet another arrogant white guy to save us all to give DS the thumbs up. But I did appreciate a lot of the ideas that…

That's dealt with in the pilot episode - Julie and Raymie are visiting Frank and on their way out Julie sees one of her friends - the one whose body was found in the original timeline and revealed that Nightingale had killed more than the police thought - and tells her she'll take the meds she's carrying to a patient,…

So, first, as much as I enjoyed "Would that it were so simple" in Hail, Caesar!, surely the standout scene is "There ain't gonna be no dames"?

I would pay good money if, just once, something like that happened. Probably the closest we'll ever get is the Alfre Woodard scene from Civil War, but that sugarcoats the issue so completely that it might as well be a completely different topic.

The fact that Pitch is failing while This Is Us - with which it shares several similarities, not to mention a creator - is the fall's biggest hit is, obviously, not even in the top ten list of things that suck about 2016. But I think it's at least in the top hundred.

So after all that fuss and promotion, Agents of SHIELD only had Ghost Rider for eight episodes? I mean, obviously it had no effect whatsoever on the show's ratings so you might as well save the effects budget, but what are they going to do in the other two thirds of the season?

I believe this might be of interest:

I'd be down with that, so long as the show started by explaining that Peet's relationship with Bradley Whitford's character ended after he died on the way to his home planet.

Television Without Pity, the site that prided itself on its snark, and which Sorkin depicted as a fascist hellscape ruled by pathetic fat women on The West Wing? I'd be surprised if they weren't primed to hate the show, but I also remember the recaps, and they were fair. The hate didn't start until the show starting…

Yeah, apart from this blip he seems pretty savvy and self-aware. I guess actors have a certain blind spot where Sorkin is concerned because there's really no one like him for dialogue, and if you work mainly in television and film it's probably really fun to get to work from his scripts.