You can say that again. Joss Whedon, Shane Black, James Gunn, and Edgar Wright in the last 3 years alone.

McConaughey was fantastic, and Harrelson plays off him quite nicely. Looking forward to the next 7, and how the framing device comes into play.

*Woody Harrelson look of exasperation*

What's weird is that I wasn't actively boycotting. I just forgot to start watching when it aired (they delayed it for so long), and then once I heard the negative consensus, I figured I was done with the show until I heard Harmon was coming back.

B+, A. "Repilot" had to reset the table, but "Introduction to Teaching" was firing on all cylinders.

Jonathan Banks is amazing, Abed is a fully Cageing sexy cat, and I was able to follow everything despite not watching one minute of season 4. Welcome back, Community.

Ah yes. The cornerstone of any stumbling-home-drunk nightly routine. Get inside, fall on bed, start perusing AV Club comments section…

I agree with the Ron Perlman sentiment. When I first saw his insane gold shoes, I got giddy with excitement.

I imagine this went something like:

Did I do well in not watching this show? I watched the pilot (and liked it well enough), but then fell asleep midway through the second episode and never got back to it.

The difference is that Zuko was sympathetic and likable enough, despite usually being portrayed as a villain. We watched the Governor murder a shitload of his own allies last season for basically no reason other than "dude is crazy".

Let's see here… for WorldCiv freshman year of HS, we watched Braveheart. Junior year US history, we watched The Patriot. Sophomore year religion (private school), we watched The Passion of the Christ.

If you go back and watch the Fringe pilot, you might think it came from a different show. The only thing they really nail in the pilot is Walter. The pilot promises a far more pedestrian procedural show than the one we eventually got. Good news was that it only took them about ten episodes to get it right.

The part where Barney convinces a woman that he's a plastic surgery altered Ryan Gosling may have been the hardest I've laughed at the show since the Lorenzo von Matterhorn.

It seems a lot better if you pretend that it's a sequel to Breaking Bad where Jesse is saying "He took everything from me", and he's referring to Walt.

What's really interesting about the MCU is that it works like gangbusters as a business model. They keep writing movies that get us excited about what's going to happen next, so we basically feel obligated to see the new one when it comes out. As long as the movies stay good, Marvel/Disney will make a shit ton of…

I never really got that complaint. About halfway through the movie, there's a clear, defined scene where Tony sort of nuts up and manages to put the anxiety on the back burner. He puts it aside because he's got so much else going on.

What I think makes Iron Man 3 work (other than being consistently funny and engaging) is that you can feel Shane Black's voice coming through the movie. Like Nolan's Batman movies, there's a single, unique vision driving it that gives it an edge over most superhero flicks.

In Nolan's movies, certain characters (in the DK films, Alfred/Fox) are assigned the duties of "quipster" as opposed to Whedon's style of having everyone talk like that.

Hmmm. Did you ever see the Transformers sequels?