That ending was phenomenal. The palpable frustration that Twelve feels when he realizes that his arrogance has just cost him his victory is so un-Doctor Who-like and it's all the better for it. Because really— the Doctor is typically portrayed as a humble-ish character (at least in Nu-Who thus far), and Twelve bucks…

I think Game of Thrones has a halfway-decent book adaption.

All of these are great, but if you're really looking for the perfect distillation of everything that Archer is, was, and ever will be, look no further than "Vision Quest," Season 6 Episode 5.

Yeah, I'm thinking he's back.

God damn.

Only Lovers Left Alive was such a slow burn, but boy was it satisfying.

I miss the good old days, back when he was Liz Lemon's underaged sex idiot.

The AV Club's coverage of the candy-assed saga has been my favorite series of news journalism this year, maybe even this decade.

"Did you miss me?"

This show started out as being just another sitcom with a gimmick, but holy balls has season 5 made me feel more feels than most other shows. I still don't know how or why I'm tearing up.

That's how you do a season finale. Holy shit. I am blown away by that ending. This must have been what it was like for ASOIAF readers when Stannis bit the dust in Game of Thrones. As a book reader, I totally saw exactly zero of that ending coming, and that's what I love about this show. It continues to deliver…

Penny's face as he realizes that he's teleported into Quentin and Alice's orgasm is priceless, like he's trying to figure out if this is worse than the time he heard Taylor Swift in Quentin's head and couldn't shake it.

Take it back, @Zanderpuss! Look at what you've done; this is why we can't have nice things.

I wonder if this means that Vixen could become a recurring flashback character in Year 5 on Lian Yu? Although they would probably have the retcon the Seed pilot if they did so, because in that episode Barry and Oliver meet her at the same time, sometime after Barry becomes the Flash.

I'm surprised at how well Megan Fox fits into the gang. If Jess is the quirky one, Winston is the weird one, Nick is the lazy one, Schmidt is the OCD one, and Cece is the normal one/straight man, then Reagan is the sociopathic one, and for some reason it feels like pressing down on a puzzle piece that fits oh so…

Man. This show though. Once it figured out what it was doing, it got so confident in the space of about three episodes.

This show has been steadily climbing in quality fast, from the slow, weird first episode. This episode was downright amazing, and as a book reader I find myself appreciating that the show and the book are doing two separate things— or at least doing things their own ways.

I also got around to reading The Magician's Land by Grossman this year! What a fun-yet-somber meditation on growing up. I really love the world Grossman created, and I'm waiting with dampened expectations for the Syfy show, which looks far dumber than it's source material.

I dunno, I kind of disagree with this review as far as Laurel goes. I would argue that the main point of Laurel asserting herself is not the showrunners trying to paint the character as a badass she's not, but rather the character arguing that she could be more, and speaking out against Oliver's (admittedly deserved)…

Every time I hear about some new idea Sony has, it sounds worse than the one before it. "Oh, we invested millions into laying out the groundwork for a critically-acclaimed sequel to our better-than-breakeven, critically-acclaimed, ALREADY EXISTING adaption of one of our best IPs? Nah, fuck it, shut it down boys."