I don't think Argo is overrated. If anything, seeing as it's going to get the inevitable backlash due to all the awards attention, I think it's almost on its way to being underrated, or at least under-appreciated. While the story itself isn't necessarily anything special, I think there's something to be said for a…

I think the basic plot is a pretty straightforward romantic comedy, but that's not really a bad thing IMO, and it's so well-executed that you (or at least I) don't notice how predictable it is until the end.

Nice! Some good news after all! I took a peek at AVClub's Glee recap (I stopped watching the show after the 2nd season, but I occasionally check the recaps just for shits and giggles), and it sounds craaaaahzy. Sorry, should have said crazy. Yep, crazy.

I think this whole experiment was a bad idea in the first place. It seemed doomed to fail.

I loved Community at one point (mostly the second half of S1-the end of S2). But I really, really didn't think the second half of season 3 was very good aside from maybe one or two episodes, and I almost wish they just cancelled it after "Regional Holiday Music" so I'd still have relatively fond memories of it. I…

Really? That's awesome. The Things They Carried is one of my favorite books, and I saw him read from it once at the National Book Festival in D.C. I haven't read anything else from him, though.

See, I'm not sure I buy that. Does anyone really think that NBC is still going to exist at the end of the century?

Now that 30 Rock is over, Happy Endings is the only TV comedy that I still enjoy. I seriously feel like I'm cursed because I also recently started watching The Hour, which got cancelled just two days ago. Basically, pretty much all the shows I like are going to be over by the end of this year. At least I still have…

Yeah, same here. Comedies seem to dip in quality by the fourth season, in my experience, though 30 Rock did pick up some steam in its last season. I would rather Happy Endings get cancelled at the end of this season than see it end up like Community.

At least for Community, NBC actually announced when there was going to be a hiatus. For Happy Endings in the past few weeks, ABC has just randomly been deciding not to air it in a given week; they didn't even give us the courtesy of saying, "There won't be any new Happy Endings this week." This totally ruins the good…

Put the daughter back in the box.

I'm still not sure how The Perks of Being a Wallflower works as well as it does. The basic plot is pretty conventional, and it should come off as the worst mix of quirk, sentimentality and melodrama, but instead, it feels completely authentic. Even though my personal high school experience was drastically different…

I loved Where the Wild Things Are, but I haven't been able to watch it since I first saw it in theaters and cried throughout pretty much the entire movie. Its portrayal of childhood and growing up really hit home for me, and watching it was kind of brutal, but in a good way.

Completely agree about Seven Psychopaths. Like you said, it wasn't as good as In Bruges, and I can't quite see it getting the same cult following, but it may have been the most flat-out fun movie I saw last year. I really enjoyed the meta-ness and the stories-within-stories narrative; even though it may have been a…

Completely agree about Seven Psychopaths. Like you said, it wasn't as good as In Bruges, and I can't quite see it getting the same cult following, but it may have been the most flat-out fun movie I saw last year. I really enjoyed the meta-ness and the stories-within-stories narrative; even though it may have been a…

Boo to your theater! Zero Dark Thirty is my favorite movie of 2012, and while it's not like Avatar (for example) where you absolutely have to see it in theaters, it was pretty cool to watch it on the big screen, especially since a lot of the suspense comes from the use of sound. My showing was good because the theater…

Keep watching Fringe. The second season starts out pretty slow, but around the halfway point, the show really comes into its own. I'm still trying to absorb the fact that it's over now, but I'm glad that it seems as though it's finding new followers. I really don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it could…

I really liked the movie Anna Karenina as well. On a superficial level, the costumes and sets were just gorgeous, but IMO not distractingly so. All four of the Oscar nominations it did get were deserved. And even though it's sort of a gimmick, I thought the idea of setting the whole movie on a stage was ingenious.…

I really liked the movie Anna Karenina as well. On a superficial level, the costumes and sets were just gorgeous, but IMO not distractingly so. All four of the Oscar nominations it did get were deserved. And even though it's sort of a gimmick, I thought the idea of setting the whole movie on a stage was ingenious.…

I agree with you about Les Mis. Anne Hathaway's "I Dreamed a Dream" was amazing, and there were some other promising moments, but as a whole it was kind of a mess. Having no previous emotional attachment to the characters whatsoever, I found the Marius-Cosette romance incredibly bland; the revolution scenes felt…