I don't really agree with the "Whedon dip" thing. Couldn't it just be that the SHIELD pilot was ho-hum compared to all the hype, whereas people went into the Sleepy Hollow pilot with no expectations and were unexpectedly delighted with what they saw?

It was so good! I still sometimes get weird flashes from it in my mind despite not having watched it in like 15 odd years. The guy who played Puddleglum was aces.

I think the Pevensies are supposed to be early 20s. Jill tells Tirian that she and Eustace are the only ones still in school, which means the other ones have graduated.

At this rate, they can use the same actors to play the Pevensies in The Horse & His Boy movie (please let it happen, best book of the series). They'll be the age required by then. It's like the children's fantasy version of Before Sunrise.

"I requested some coffee from the charwoman at the entrance."
"She's called a receptionist. Or Wendy."

If you like Ichabod's British Jesus-ness, you might like Desmond from Lost. Equally released from years spent in a hole, initially thought to be crazy, spent time with Clancy Brown, similar styling with the long hair, beard and perfect aquiline nose, Scottish accent, weird time-traveling stuff going on with him,…

I had to give up on Once Upon a Time because after the pilot no one was ever allowed to have a good time, which translated into me not having a good time watching. What's the point of a plot-hole ridden Disney princess show that is a total downer? The premise had just as much potential for fun as Sleepy Hollow's, but…

I love this movie. Ben Stiller's line reading of, "So I was supposed to be sensitive to the possibility that my best friend, a Catholic priest, might be in love with my secret girlfriend?" is a winner, and the whole thing is charming.

Andy's last name is BROOKS, not Dunn. The characters in the show have referred to him as Brooks in both episodes, and the Fox press releases have referred to him as Andy Brooks. Please change it! John Cho deserves better than for everyone to call his character by the wrong name.

Kahl Drogo was American. My husband and I busted out laughing when he revealed his caricature-like California surfer dude accent in the DVD extras. But maybe they made another exception for him because the character wasn't speaking English?

Yeah, there are lots of ways to use him while keeping him dead. Maybe he's in the weird place with the wife and the leads can talk to him through the mirror or whatever. Or we can have flashbacks (it seemed like he and Abby maybe used to have some sort of sexual tension or something? What with the face stroking and…

iTunes currently has the Sleepy Hollow pilot for free.

Much as I love the Marvel movie-verse, Clark Gregg and the British kid who was in The Fades, I can't muster any enthusiasm about SHIELD. The interchangeably bland model types and bland, underlit interiors give me a giant case of the naps. I think it'll start big, hemorrhage viewers, and then start to find its feet…

I did! Well, I watched the first three seasons. I enjoyed it and the overall mythology (and all the hilarious differences between the worlds), but I wouldn't call it a bucket of fun. Season 3 was rough, what with Olivia's life sucking so hard, and her overall depression, and then having her body taken over by Spock.…

I was skeptical of this new pilot pre-review thing, but seeing a critic allow himself to be genuinely excited about this insanity and give it an A- makes me more okay with the entire thing. This is the only new show I've been looking forward to. Sci-fi that allows its characters to have fun! It's so rare and so great.…

I can't tell if you really meant "inanity" or if it was a typo of "insanity". If the latter, I totally agree.

I don't care at all about the pre-air screener reviews. There's already way too much pressure on and articles about pilots (which are the things usually made available for screeners). Pilots—especially comedy ones—-are rarely accurate indications of what a show's strengths will be six episodes from now. I feel like…

I know making a Nikki & Paolo crack is an easy snark point, but it's kind of lazy. Yes, Lost had a similar-seeming problem of cast isolation, and Nikki & Paolo sucked in terms of how they were introduced, but Lost also did amazing character introductions. Desmond was ALSO there the whole time, but he was awesome and…

Between yesterday's Manhattan Murder Mystery and this today, you have covered 2 of my three favorite Woody Allen movies. (The other is Love and Death; that Napoleon scene is killer.) So charming and adorable, and attractive to look at. It kills me that it's so minimally available.

Tyrion Lannister drunkenly talking about vomiting someone in the middle of sex was the only TV moment I immediately rewound three times (before even finishing the episode) because it was so delightful.