POI did what Elementary did around the same time - it followed the procedural formula, but with true intelligence and panache. They were both sneaky-good. It is possible to do some pretty great things within the procedural form - it's just that most shows don't have enough vision or purpose to bother.

Cupid is it for me - he was a delight on that show.

I choose to believe that being free of not-very-good shows just opens up her schedule for better things. Heaven knows she's been working steadily - she even popped up in an episode of Grace and Frankie.

I saw one with Wolfgang Puck and Kristen Bell on Craig Ferguson that was nice. Of course, it's hard to go wrong with Craig Ferguson and Kristen Bell.

Nailed it. This show never really figured out what it wanted to be and ended up not being much of anything.

Well, there's also the fact that Powerless is…not very good. I wanted to like it - the cast is stacked with talent, it has that great credits sequence, and the costume designer's good, too - but the writing was mediocre at best. Great News hasn't totally found its feet yet, but it's still better, it has a better…

Hey, Santa Clarita Diet is still on.

This thread is the most correct thread. And I'm so glad the viewing public rejected that execrable crap as well.

If they don't already have another job lined up and know they can't collect unemployment? I can see it.

With Stephen Fry! And yet I have never watched an episode, which speaks to how terrible that thing looks.

The exchange of "I won't apologize for doing my job"/"That's not the job" pretty much said it all.

IIRC it took a little while for B99 to find its feet, but it absolutely figured things by the middle of the first season. As people have been saying, any Pontiac Bandit episode is great, and you can't go wrong with "Halloween," either. The most continuity-dependent episodes tend to happen at the very ends and very…

I went to a live broadcast a few years ago with my parents and they were decades younger than the rest of the audience.

The last time the U.S. made a serious stab at extraditing Roman Polanski we had termites coming out of the woodwork to talk about how it's a "European culture" thing for grown men to have sex with young teens, and Americans are so uptight, gosh, so - I guess some people like to imagine that shit is normal, still.

Internment camps, I'm guessing. Concentration camps have a different connotation.

Yeah, Paul isn't Cowell bad, because he's not always searching for the most rebloggable putdown - on a U.S. reality show he'd be an outright teddy bear - but he's a little too into his own hype for a show a low-key as GBBO.

Some people took the whole "you can do anything if you believe in yourself" bit way too seriously as children.

Trust fund babies, finance bros, and possibly white shoe attorneys. There's enough of them to populate an event like this.

I am endlessly puzzled by all these people who think they can set fire to their own house and somehow come out unscathed.

Not if you want attention.