Thank you again for saying so, it means an enormous amount to a young writer. Have all of my fingers crossed for your ABC pilot!

The other trailer that came out a couple of hours ago is infinitely better than this one, which makes it seem kind of incomprehensible. The difference was enough to make me shift from, "Sure, I'll see it," to, "Okay, get it into my eyeballs." http://blogs.indiewire.com/…

Then I hope your misgivings prove to be unfounded!

Presumably this is also despite the raft of very positive reviews…?

Tim Goodman will jizz himself over nearly anything that involves lots of dudes and/or murder.

Or Hershey Bars and prostitutes.

It's the Tumblrisation of identity politics.

Well that's essentially what I expected to happen (although what they've apparently done to Jake is just beyond). I held out hope but worst fears confirmed. Oh well, we got three good-to-great seasons out of it. I might keep watching, if I have time to.

USE THE INTERNET, BOOKS ARE STUPID!!!

And I tend to watch it in the dark just for enhanced pants-shitting terror. A show like this is all about immersing yourself in its atmosphere.

I'm finding myself in this weird place where I both love and hate that hollowness. I laugh at the show, but during this episode particularly I just felt exhausted by the shallow political bullshit more than it amused me. And I can't decide if I like the show more or less for that.

Billy Eichner was phenomenal as the librarian in "Topsy", too.

Honestly, I think it's less that Mad Men isn't on that level so much as it challenges the existing notions we have of what constitutes a 'best drama' or really how television evolves at all given that, in reality, it's about characters taking two steps forward and anywhere from one to three steps back where we expect…

Honestly, I only watched the first episode and then completely forgot to ever watch it again. Not because it was bad, but because there wasn't much in it that interested me. Just very middle-of-the-road "this is what we think great dramas look like" sort of thing. I think it got better by the end, from what I've…

We'll always have, 'KNOTTY PIIIIIIIIIINE?!?"

I know it's a couple of months later but man, this was a fantastic episode of TV.

It's a blessing and a curse, because it essentially takes the place of cable channels given that our cable does very few original dramas (Wentworth, soon to be remade in like, The Netherlands or somewhere, which was based on Prisoner: Cell Block H, is the only current one I can think of) and the rest have mostly been…

Thank you for your very reasonable agreement to disagree!

Yes, the ABC and SBS, not coincidentally government funded and therefore not beholden to ad revenue (I think SBS flirted with on-air advertising, but I could be wrong, I don't watch it often myself as they have online catch-up services). And the news broke last night that our glorious conservative regime is looking to…

Oh it was okay, but let's not pretend that wrapping up storylines is Ryan Murphy's best talent. I mean, there was never an explanation for the aliens even existing. Quite silly, if effective.