Alfie Allen really brought it in this one, man.  Definitely capable of carrying his own storyline.  I think he's going to be the secret MVP of season 2.

Theon-haters act like it was such an easy decision for him to make to just go back to Robb's camp empty handed.  As much as that would have been the *right* thing to do, it would have been absolutely humiliating for him.  While he was with the Starks, he always made a big deal about how he was a Greyjoy—it was a major…

Never promise crazy a baby.

Exactly.  One of Kenny's defining traits has always been his (relatively) extensive vocabulary and creative use of language.

Also, any idea if Clegg is gonna be back this season?

*KP watches Cami-Secret commercial.  Takes a bong rip.*

Definitely check out Sepinwall's interview with Winter.  So many good lil nuggets, such as :

Saw it tonight.  Absolutely no reason why it shouldn't be at least a B+.  Probably should be an A-.  Solid laughs throughout, and the meta-commentary isn't over the top or anything.  It's at the same level as it was in the original movie and the Great Muppet Caper.

Dude, have you ever met a Boston fan?

I had a good friend in college who was a lot like Andy.  Basically a big, dopey, enthusiastic, lovable goofball.  Not the brightest when it came to academic stuff, but he had a lot of social intelligence and could relate to people easily.  I think that he was naturally inclined towards the dim, likeable oaf persona,…

Props to Darryl for hiding under a stinking corpse to avoid the zombie herd.  I always thought that, in a world populated by zombies who hunt by smell, your best bet for survival would be to rub zombie goop all over your body or fashion a necklace with a hacked-off zombie foot and wear it around.

This is basically the same argument nerds always make against Jobs.  It's basically the hipster ethos as applied to technology—Jobs's products were enormously popular because the mainstream is too *dumb* to know otherwise.

Yep.  And I really don't get why taking things in an entirely new direction = good in the minds of most reviewers and some fans.  There's something to be said about honing and perfecting your own sound over the course of a decade.  Constantly reinventing the wheel does not necessarily make for better songwriting.…

Well said.  Although I still think Wilco (The Album) has been unfairly cast as mediocre by fans and reviewers alike.  "One Wing," "Bull Black Nova," "Country Disappeared," and "Deeper Down" can stand up to anything Wilco did in its late 90s/early 00s "golden years."

It's not 100% factually accurate.  So what?  Neither was Social Network.

Zito might have won the Cy Young, but he wasn't great that year (he was always overrated in Oakland, really).  4.31 xFIP—one of the luckiest Cy winners in recent memory.  He got the award because he "won" 22 games.

Chris Perez as a DFW lookalike?  I guess the late-career Kenny Powers comparisons have gotten stale.

Also: Josh Groban.

It's Always Sunny
is kind of a late-bloomer, isn't it? I feel like last season was by far its best. Earlier seasons were too focused on the offensive/sociopathic behavior of the gang, which at times felt a tad derivative, and the characters were pretty much interchangeable. What I like about later seasons is that…

Yeah, I'm happy to see all these Baltimoreans coming out of the woodwork.