The American's usage of Major Tom in this last season is another instance where I can't unpair the scene and the music, especially when it's that scene where Elizabeth roofies poor Don.

I've been a fan since Crossing Jordan and I wish she'd get better scripts. She's played the same basically character from Bad Moms for four movies now. Casting directors don't know how to deploy her talents unfortunately.

And I understood her argument, I took issue with her semantics that she seemed to think the movie was calling Steinfeld ugly based on the opinion of one very drunk teen.

Whenever something like that happens, I always try to nail down how old the screenwriter is compared with the age demographic they're trying to sample.

Not to put down any of AV Club's glorious writers, but I sorta take issue how glib Kayla's blurb turned out. She takes issue with that Hailee Steinfeld, a part-time pop singer, has the nerve to return to her given profession as an actress? What…? When did striving to make a earnest film earn snarky scorn?

If Wet Hot American Summer is the best comedy since the new millennium, then the last 15 years of comedies sure have been shitty.

Wet Hot Summer American Summer is a meandering comedy with maybe three laughs in it (David Hyde Pierce's outburst at Janeane Garofalo is damn funny though) and no script. It suffers from the Adam McKay problem of the actors riffing 90% of the movie.

Too much Wet Hot American Summer

On a sidenote, The Middle is in its eighth season now? Boy, do I feel old…

I think we can acknowledge that Stella is officially the Worst Character Ever© for inadvertently pushing Nicky back to heroin. Thanks a lot, Stella!

SHUTT UP I'M TAWKING

"Worst episode" is a relative term for a Person of Interest episode. There's never been an outright bad episode they've produced. I cited 'Baby Blue' because its one where the week's plot overtook the show's overall premise, if that makes sense. There's been a few of those.

Alias was never the zeitgeist it once was after S2, but it still had some good story left to tell in the following seasons.

'Baby Blue' was probably the worst because the show was still finding its groove in Season One. Also Team Machine and baby jokes.

That's the one. The tragedy of the perversion of Arthur's machine into Samaritan was never lost on me, especially as it overtook the Machine in later seasons.

I got the impression in those final moments where Samaritan was wiped out that The Machine essentially corrupted Samaritan's processes and took over.

Those long shots of those two on opposite building alternated between sad and bittersweet. It was perfect.

Let's pretend those were lost episodes that happened in between the smaller episodes, like A More Perfect Union or QSO.

Happy to see someone mention 4C. It's not as experimental as other episodes, but I'd include it just because it cements the friendship and camaraderie that's developed between Reese and Finch. It's just about perfect when Finch mentions that Reese should visit the tailor for a new suit.

I dunno how much of POI's mythology was planned in advance, but Relevance is great just for being of those episodes where there was more backstory to unspool still, and it's still fun to uncover, RAM being another episode.