I think there's probably a pretty normally distributed bell curve on when it runs out of steam for the individual viewer. I remember starting a three-part episode that had the preposterous idea that three straight terrorist attacks on the UK = 100% chance of complete anarchy, gasping at the beginning at the momentum…

The emphatic sadness and empathy of the jobs line made my night.

That doesn't directly answer AsylumKeeper's (and my) question: this article makes it sound like a single, big piece of beef (whatever the cut) is browned, then put in the stew to cook, then presumably either falls apart or is cut or shredded later. AsylumKeeper (and I) always brown small chunks of beef (whatever the…

Thanks, but I think I'll work in the opposite direction. I learned to sip scotch buying $30-$40 bottles, then had to find cheaper stuff. I'll try to find the Ron Zaya to cut my teeth, then try to step it down a level. Although a lot of what's appealed to me about sipping rum is the idea that it might be cheaper than…

Can you recommend anything that costs about half that much? If I can find drinkable scotch for under $22 (Teacher's, Bank Note, Famous Grouse, in that order) and there's plenty of decent stuff between $22-26, there's got to be a decent sipping rum in the same range.

That's just the kind of error I might have caught if I could have seen my damn comment as I typed it. Looks like they might have fixed it today.

I don't agree at all. I think I've thrown up from drinking four times, twice in college, twice after. The first was from beer and vodka, the second beer, the third scotch, the fourth Fireball. I'm done with Fireball (that's a story and no loss), but I love scotch (that was the problem that night), and I just know that…

Am I now ever so slightly older than the typical AV Clubber that this happened dozens and dozens of times to me, to entire albums at a time? It was thought to be a defense tactic by the record companies by me and all my filesharing high school friends.

I got my copy of Dylan, Bob - Stuck In The Middle With You straight from the source: Napster.

Good point, if this is what I get for exempting the AVClub, I'm eventually turning that stop sign back to red.

I really liked Into The Vein my freshman year of college, so now I feel less bad about torrenting it from suprnova for fuck's sake I do not want to find this band's shows on oh my rockness just let me see my fucking comment that I'm trying to type here

I pretty much only drink scotch at home and beer at restaurants, with the odd bourbon thrown in, and maybe one gin cocktail a year.

Everyone has at least one basic liquor they can't stand. I had a friend in college who couldn't drink rum without throwing up. I think tequila tastes like you've already thrown up. My wife is viscerally opposed to gin. I imagine if you're an alcoholic you're exempted from this rule.

I also read the books (and five minutes later realized I hated them), and even after reading everything below, I have no idea what you're talking about. Bran doesn't meet the last of the little elf race they talk about sometimes? He was in the Watch? He's done fuck-all yet?

Well one of them has three wives and hasn't seen his kid in two episodes (I think).

As a CPA, this offends me. Dermatology is one of the hardest medical specialties to get into! They get paid a ton!

If I remember right, there were three or four Latin words (I remember "nos" "eam" and "omnia", and honestly I'm not even sure the first two are correct, though they're at least close), but there was also an "el" in there, which as far as I remember (and it's been 8 years) is very much not a Latin word.

I think it's more early 30s here, but the timeline on this show doesn't totally make sense. This episode in particular makes it pretty clear that Kate and Peter met years ago, and have been married for more than a few months too, but the kids are all the same age as in the pilot (if not the same people). Also, how…

I'm sure the 14-year-old girl they fired so that this other girl could mug all episode long is totally not completely devastated, and being a 14-year-old, even if she were, I'm sure she'd rebound quickly.

There is of course a ton of unfounded arrogance out there. I didn't specify this as clearly as I was thinking of it: general population, I doubt arrogance has any correlation to actual abilities. But once you've selected a group skilled enough to get on TV performing a task, I would bet there was a SLIGHT, positive…