"Yesterday, when I took a smoke machine to the burn unit just to see how they'd react, I ate so much General Tso's that they GAVE ME HIS HAT. I'M SO BAD. I don't even look good in hats!"
"Shut your dick off, you look amazing in hats, and you know it."
"My father says I don't look good in anything."

Beyond y'all and Vulture, I find it really gratifying to see multiple places put Hannibal at #1. The distance between how I feel about the show vs the way it's been received in general makes me feel like a crazy person, so it's exciting to see multiple people that watch TV for a living put at the absolute top of…

Julianne Moore is one of my favorite humans, and I've had the weirdest fucking dreams that I'm pretty sure were heavily influenced by this movie.

1. Hannibal
2. Rick and Morty
3. Veep
4. The Good Wife
5. Mad Men
6. Broad City
7. The Americans
8. Transparent*
9. Louie
10. Please Like Me
11. Jane the Virgin
12. The Affair
13. Looking
14. Orange Is the New Black
15. Review
16. Orphan Black
17. Bob's Burgers
18. Inside Amy Schumer
19. Community
20. Nathan For You
21. Game of Thrones

Chayefsky was wildly melodramatic, but he was right, so it works. Sorkin rarely has that advantage.

This show has demonstrated SO HARD that people will become attached to a cast of complete unknowns if they're talented enough, so I have no idea what they think they still have to gain by keeping Biggs' name in the credits.

Aaron Sorkin turned into Andy Rooney so gradually I barely even noticed.

Over the last 15 years, every script he writes seems to be colored by more and more unwillingness to even make eye contact with people that disagree with him. In a lot of ways, he's the biggest pussy in screenwriting today in that regard.

I love playing that game where you get here after all of someone's comments have been deleted and you have to guess what they said. This is a particularly fun one.

Did anyone else feel Pandora's Box smash right the fuck open when the reporter said something like "This is going to change the way people see you"?

The treatment of rape victims should not be a political issue.

It's almost devastating how hard Sorkin wants to be Chayefsky, or wants The Newsroom to be Network, and neither is either. They just aren't. Network, for all its histrionics, has actual human beings. The Newsroom just doesn't.

Fuck this noise.

When I listened to Serial I get emotionally burnt out to the point where I'm just like http://www.theonion.com/art… for this exact reason.

TAKE ALL MY MONEY

I'd take a bullet for Lange, but basically everything Bassett screamed at Lee Tergesen this week ran circles around everything Lange has done this year.

Her reacting to one of AHS's standard handwringing monologues with "I feel uncomfortable and I'm going to hang up now" is as Grimesy as it gets.

Did any else get hardcore Betty Draper deja vu from that shot?

I'm pretty sure she understands this show's tone and vibe better than Murphy himself.

Her subplot this episode made me wish that this season was squarely focused on her leading the ladyfreaks on a Tarantino-y revenge warpath. This season needs to be focused on something, fucking anything, and that's about as good as it gets.