Networks are finally figuring out that Nielsen ratings aren't the only measure of a show's worth. DVD sales, digital media sales, merch sales: they all contribute. Even viewing shows streaming via subscription sites can help: the fact that BrBa was on Netflix is credited by some for the show's ultimate success.

It's almost like we want to ensure the good ones keep getting made and networks continue to buy good new ones.

Future reference, canistream.it is what I use to figure out which things are legitimately available (and where) and which have to be obtained via… other methods.

GAH. THANK YOU. I didn't pay attention to the opening credits, spent all episode trying to figure out how I knew the actor, then I kept forgetting to look the episode up to find out who she was.

Month later follow-up: Hah. I should have known better than to give them that much credit.

Personally, I'm holding out for Hannah and Deb coming to their fucking senses, killing Dexter together, and running away to Argentina to raise Harrison as his lesbian moms.

It's a small town. IIRC, Danny wasn't specifically by the church, he just ended up there, since it's across the field behind his house.

I disagree that Hardy is the main character. If anything, Hardy and Miller are co-leads, but it's a very ensemble cast.

Maybe it's because I'm only watching this episode of Fringe now, five years later, as Breaking Bad is a spare three episodes from cementing its position as one of the best and most popular TV series in American history, but I couldn't help but hear "White for Walter" as a sly reference to BB.

The reason that 15 comes up in all of these conversations is that 16 is the age of consent in England. It would be the equivalent of 17 in the U.S.: somebody who's alllllllmost legal, and somehow a year (or month) will be enough to magically flip a switch from "innocent child jailbait" to "sexually mature adult."

Here's what I'm really confused about: Genevieve Koski has "a vague memory of [her] mom lending the tape to [her] second-grade teacher," but she "was only 9" when the episode aired.

This is one bit of stupidity out of a thousand, but can anyone explain to me how having your husband disappear is likely to bring you under less scrutiny than having him die from ostensibly natural causes? When a rich white dude dies, there's no way the cops aren't going to at least vaguely investigate his suddenly…

@avclub-c0dc1051164bf1848c76c1e9fce2544d:disqus: Not sure how we got such disparate takeaways. To me, it was a pretty clear indictment, and IIRC the friend I watched it with had the same response. I'll give you muddled, or at least scattershot, but to me it came down firmly on the side of "this stuff is unacceptable,"…

He was really there.

Based on the way I read things the first time I saw the episode, I strongly disagree that "Something Happened" is neither demonstrating "a twist or nuance" nor "tak[ing] aim at the perpetrators rather than their victims."

I googled all the names after I finished the article. Sure are a bunch of white folks talking about how Black people should feel.

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I can't pull out specific examples because it's been a while since I've seen this episode, but I do recall that my best friend and I cringed our way through the worst of the April-related bits.

"As a straight white cis man, I honestly don't understand why people get all offended by humor at the expense of people who are gay, POC, trans, or women. Can't you people take a joke?"