For me, it's probably a close second to Justified, which is more hilarious than the majority of actual comedies I've seen on TV.

That scene seriously deserves multiple Emmys. As much as I love the show's rich character development, witty dialogue and multi-layered themes, bits like that are what make Mad Men truly great television.

I wasn't blown away by Before Sunrise, but after seeing Sunset and Midnight and loving both of them, I can appreciate that one a little more. I just find the series' take on love so refreshing because it's realistic but completely uncynical, really not quite like anything I've seen in any other movie. And Ethan Hawke…

As someone who admittedly hasn't read any comic books or seen any of the previous Superman movies, I was never all that invested in Man of Steel, so it was easy for me to just brush it aside. I will just say that if you find Zack Snyder tolerable, you probably won't mind Man of Steel, but if you hate Zack Snyder like…

That's an intriguing idea. I feel like it could have worked if the action itself was better executed. And I still didn't get the sense that the filmmakers were all that interested in exploring Superman's morality.

I did read a pretty amusing article about the movie on SBNation, but I don't think it was that one. I'll have to check it out. As a baseball fan myself, I hated the baseball parts of the movie, but the other parts were surprisingly tolerable (again, thanks in large part to Amy Adams's performance).

I suppose. Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I realize that I have no idea what the genesis chamber was. If Kryptonians are created by some form of genetic engineering and don't actually have to be born, then wouldn't they be alive to begin with? It still seems to me that again, unless I missed something,…

Oh, so he didn't destroy the genesis chambers? I wasn't exactly clear on that.

I love the ending for Before Sunset. I'm not sure whether I liked that or Before Midnight more, but the whole trilogy is pretty fantastic.

I agree with your general assessment that there was no need to "Nolanize" the Superman story (though it was more just angsty than gritty), but like @avclub-f8f8c273f326be25421cc62737d24a9e:disqus said, you can't pass judgment on a movie without having seen it first. I guess it does make me want to read some Superman…

I had problems with the ending of Man of Steel, not because he killed Zod (though I mostly agree with Darren Franich's assessment on EW.com) but because unless I misunderstood something, Superman committed mass genocide without even hesitating.

Friends is a mental state.

Sunday afternoon, I re-watched The Hobbit, which was pretty much the same as the first time I saw it. Some good moments (I still get chills during the "Misty Mountains" song), and it didn't ruin The Lord of the Rings, but it was still way too long and relied too heavily on CGI.

This is what I think too. Maybe it's just because of James Wolk's acting, but that scene seemed a little off-kilter, not at all earnest like you'd expect if Bob was really just hitting on Pete or whatever. I think he is actually gay, but I don't buy that he actually has a crush on Pete. The show has hinted that he's a…

As I mentioned above, I didn't realized how contrived that storyline was until after the episode ended and I really started to think about it, so I didn't have too much of a problem while I was watching it other than that I just didn't find it all that interesting. I think the characters' actions and the sequence of…

I overall enjoyed this episode a lot, particularly the end and the dinner conversation with Pete and Peggy (I don't ship them or anything, but I've always found their relationship fun to watch). But I gave the episode an A- instead of an A because of Sally's storyline. The end result was worth it, but up until then,…

I assumed that they killed her because they want to add something to shock people like me who'd read the books and were all smug about knowing what was going to happen. If that was their goal, it worked.

I've read the books (well, all of them except for the fifth one) and I can confirm that in the novel, Talisa (or rather Jeyne, as she's called in the books) isn't at the Red Wedding because, as people have pointed out, bringing her to the wedding is essentially rubbing it in the Freys's faces. I've been…

The ending of this episode might be one of my favorite Mad Men episode endings ever. There was something so haunting about the image of Don and Megan sitting on the bed (not facing each other, of course) overlapped with the song and the news broadcast. I thought it did a great job conveying how empty and disconnected…

I absolutely loved this episode, I'm guessing more than most other people did. One of the main reasons is probably that it reminded me just how amazing the actors are, especially Jon Hamm, who I think did his best work here in quite a long time. How none of them have won an Emmy (and how Vincent Kartheiser has never…