It begins at midnight: I think 12:00 is better thought of as 0:00 from a strict counting standpoint. But our publishing system has a weird thing about jumping dates back and forth, and sometimes they get difficult to keep track of.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that Mad Men is a long-form Squirrel Girl origin story.

That's Tuesdays for you. Pretty sure WOT is now in pole position, though.

Yeah, sorry for throwing off the usual posting schedule. Long story short, figuring out the difference between "midnight today" and "midnight tomorrow" is a weekly bloody struggle in the AV Club CMS.

Hey, it's all good! Part of the reason I like the commenting community is it allows me to get some instant feedback on these things and expand the parts of the review that are a little undercooked. Adds to the experience all round, I think.

Honestly, I can see why it reads as absurd in isolation. Hopefully the addendum I just wrote in response to Core Concept helps clarify where I'm coming from, even if you still don't agree.

I can expand on this a bit: Basically, I agree with you that the episode intends Linda's anger to work much as you say it does, as a way to get the story rolling. My trouble was that the episode chose such a plot-heavy way to set up her anger, and it drew such attention to this big incident that no one could talk…

Right, and you're not the first person to say that! But I feel like you couldn't then claim to be a lawman in any reasonable sense of the word. Raylan's actions were understandable, maybe even defensible, but not if he's going to remain a marshal.

That really isn't how the grading scale works. Suffice it to say that there really isn't a super-meaningful distinction to be made between an A- and a B+ in my mind when it comes to serialized shows like this; it's hard to give a really definitive take on what is really just 1/13 of a larger story, so A-/B+ just…

I'm still a guy!

I can, but I'm really going to need to ease into this with 5,000 words on Doctor Who, so get comfy.

Well it sure as hell isn't because they're Belgian.

1) I have to go with "Fancy Party." Definitely one of the first episodes that completely, unapologetically leads with the sweetness, but it's also so damn funny. Andy's attempt to speak formally, April crying after her sister's toast, Ben's offhand mention that he isn't really a fan of Peter Jackson's LOTR…

3 > 2 (both all-time classics) > 4 > 7 (both have missteps, but are spectacular when everything clicks) > 6 > 5 (I'd say the former is more consistently decent but the latter hits higher highs; could very easily flip these) > 1 (barely a season at six episodes; the beginning is clunky but one or two episodes totally…

Hey everyone!

These really were flawless. Although I'm pretty sure that, as TV Leslie would point out, your headline could stand to be a bit dirtier. Sex sells!

I have to wake up in three and a half damn hours to go catch a plane, so I will restrict my comments to: THESE ARE MY EVERYTHING.

Yeah, sorry for the lack of stray observations. Had to shift over to the P&R finale review, and this one was already about 400 words longer than it really should be. Strays will return next week, I imagine.

I like season five fine, and part of the reason I mention it here is to acknowledge that it got tasked with the impossible duty of partially undoing season's four big closing move — Raylan arranging Nicky Augustine's death — because it was clear that wasn't really narratively sustainable. I'll admit I'm not crazy…

The first "A" in "A. A. Dowd" stands for "Alasdair Wilkins"!