The recorded stage production with McKellen and Dench is pretty badass, to the point where I instinctively fear Judi Dench to this day. Here's hoping that the Fassbender-Cotillard ends up being good.

I decided to finally start watching the show after reading the miniseries part one review, and I finished the series before the Water/Bastille review went up. I would like to think that speaks more to the quality of the show than the quality of my social life.

Somebody more proactive than me needs to start a Reposted Fox News Comments account, if that doesn't already exist.

RIGHT?!?!

I bitch about Coven like it's my job, but I still desperately want to see the show that belongs to those opening credits, because the show we got sure as fuck wasn't it.

Since Fargo ended, I've been quietly folding my hands and waiting for Tolman to get her own show. Because she needs one.

I would human sacrifice just about anyone for season five to be a Murder Santa spinoff.

"Our third season will focus on race relations, starring 15 white people, a sassy voodoo queen, and a former employee of a fried chicken place. You're welcome."

My default mode is to assume he would fail at that kind of thing, but Lana Banana was actually a far more fully realized character than I would ever expect from Murphy or that show, so as far as RM lesbian characters goes, who knows. She was messy, complicated, lesbianism was important to the character but ultimately…

This made my whole day better. She's so good on this show I tend to remember her as having three times the screentime she actually did in the first two seasons.

If you're going to go through the trouble of creating multiple accounts to give your horseshit more credibility, you should at least create extra bonus accounts to like your own posts with besides the ones you created to post the same idiocy.

Seriously. Say what you will, I remembered him, and I remembered Stu, and that's gotta count for something.

Also in the travesty column: Annie Hall as Romcom patient zero. Even charitably reading that as AH being the originator of modern romantic comedies, that makes no sense.

Clearly you're too drunk to remember Constance's fourth child being introduced, or how "it will be very clear what season two will look like once you see the first season finale".

American Horror Story: Smile Time

The sheer volume of plots/characters they've announced concerns me, since Coven's biggest issue seemed to be a "Kill your darlings" problem where literally everything they thought of made it to the final draft. Also, Coven was the highest rated season, so it's probably safe to assume that they've learned nothing.

I'm still kind of bummed that no one seems to even be considering Brocheré for future seasons. I had no opinion of her either way the first time I saw Asylum, but I thought she was really charming the second time I watched that season. She tends to get lost in the shuffle because she was relatively quiet compared to…

No. It flames right the fuck out in the second half, and after that it's only interesting because you get to watch Lange, Bassett, Bates, Rabe, Conroy, and Paulson do their DAMNDEST to elevate garbage, and be surprisingly successful at it every so often. But at the end of the day, storytelling that shitty isn't worth…

"DON'T PULL OFF MY WIG AND CALL ME A SAILBOAT!" James Adomian's impression of Judge Judy gives me life.

The gay rights metaphors this show comes up with are more awful and misguided than I know I what to do with.