This review seems really anemic. I mean, if you want to just tell people to watch a movie just tell them and don't stick it in its own feature. This is a Martin Scorscese film, I mean, it's hardly a film forgotten by time or steadfastly ignored by all but a select few. It was popular then and from what I gather it's…

No, and I know that we'll see much more conflict from it, but I didn't like that Leslie's problems keep getting fixed really easily and in the exact same way. She gets upset, Ben and Ann make her feel better by reminding her that she's made out of rainbows. Ann should have just had that piece of paper from the get-go…

Leslie's ceaseless optimism at the end of Recall Vote actually had me a little aggravated. She's starting to become the most one note character on the whole show, I appreciated seeing her on the outs from her regular bubbly sunshine-y persona at the halfway point of the episode. It's just if she can suffer through the…

This would have been cooler if they had sung about the crimes that they had actually committed instead of making stuff up, like the Queen poisoning Doc instead of ya know that whole actual murder plot she really carried out.

Tiny thing here but I think it might be a mistake to claim Charlie as the only one who was twisted in the head because of abuse and neglect, not to get too deep about these characters and why they are the way they are because I don't think this show really calls for it, but Dee and Dennis were just as screwed over by…

Honestly I thought they way they offed his dad and Ryan's complete lack of emotional reaction really killed this episode for me. I don't hate that they killed him off, but it was so pat and matter of fact, and on top of that Ryan shows very, very little emotion over it. Really, no one does except Kristen, in the…

@avclub-c5c65096ceb456334f71d54eb3e152d0:disqus  I think when it comes to them, the most damaging part of their relationship on Piper's side is that she ping pongs between them, which is really indicative of Piper's need to have it all, both Alex in the immediate and Larry in the future. It is horrible and I don't…

See, while I realize Piper is equally complicit in her dramas and romance with Alex, but writing off Alex as Piper's victim is ignoring the reality of it and making Piper into some crazy, mustache twirling villain. Like Piper says in their second to last flashback, Alex IS a drug smuggler whose job it is to manipulate…

I really have to say I don't really get how so many people can hate Piper and love Alex. I see Piper as being selfish and arrogant, sure, but it's born out of ignorance and sheer blithe self centeredness, she fucks up a lot but she usually had good intentions or tries her damnedest to fix it. Everything Alex does is…

I think it was the way it was done, it was so obvious that she would make such an awkward move to have both of them then have the boys get grossed out by her and back off and then the episode ends on an 'oh well' moment. It's not really that she gets embarrassed, I just didn't think the episode needed to go that way…

I actually thought this episode really ruined the ending though, up til then it was definitely A material but I don't know why it couldn't just give Tina one or the other boy instead of awkwardly losing her both. I felt it was way too obvious and needlessly embarrassing for her.

You guys have a goofy habit of writing 'Jane' instead of 'Joan' a lot when talking about Elementary.

So I'm days late to this pity party but I just caught up with this series on FX and I'm so damn annoyed at the insane amount of wasted potential here. Half this crap doesn't need to be in this show - the whole cult members storyline is incredibly dumb and pointless - and they're wasting Bacon and Purefoy on totally…

I cannot believe you'd include Rumor and Sigh in this! Back when I was first getting into Thompson my dad lauded that album as Thompson's best but only had it on cassette and I was always so enamored with the first two songs - especially placed one after the other - that as many times as I played and rewound it I…

Hmm, I didn't know you could compare Morrissey with David Goddamn Bowie and come out *against* Bowie. Swap anyone with Morrissey in this equation.

Could be Bowie doesn't want Morrissey to capitalize on his image just to sell a single that has nothing to do with him? Either way, as much as I love Bowie, celebrity tiffs about incredibly pointless things are always hilarious.

Shows like this never last though, there's no real heart to it beyond "Wow Liberals are dumb!" And I could spare the thought that a show made in the same vein about Conservatives would fair better in "Liberal Hollywood" but I think it's down to storytelling. Take American Dad for example. It definitely started out as…

@avclub-b89fc71ee73d1d6ec09693a1844bf3a2:disqus I really hate this whole Irene Adler is a Girl in the Refrigerator - I can't believe people really think she's dead. Right now they're just talking about her being dead, but even Sherlock's never seen her body or had confirmation she's dead. I mean this show is…

@avclub-b4d1b83d321a8cd9f6e8d98cfdfb1f75:disqus I kind of have to disagree - I've been thinking a lot lately about less than sympathetic protagonists, and I think American television makes them just as often. For instance It's Always Sunny or quite a lot of shows on FX or anything on HBO, where they're usually…

Exactly, I like that we have a Sherlock who really acknowledges that there are people he cares about, even if it comes as a surprise to him. There are a lot of unapologetic protagonists out there (even outside of the Holmes mythos), who don't care who their actions hurt and who end up never facing consequences - and…