Hm. Could you explain how Transparent differs from, say, Enlightened or Please Like Me in this regard? Because for me, the latter two shows have done/are doing similar things to Transparent but way, way better (not to say this show is bad, but there's a big gulf for me - particularly in the sense that I don't see…

I've not finished the season yet, but my biggest problem with it is that it outside of Maura, the whole show feels like a Teachable Moment. A lot of it I enjoy watching, but some of it comes off as kind of overwrought and yet surprisingly hollow. This episode is definitely the one I liked the most, and it made me wish…

So that's why they call him Twisty.

Or Courage the Cowardly Dog, or Treehouse of Horror, or fucking SCOOBY DOO.

Gilmore Girls is one of those things that just won't work for some people. Amy Sherman-Palladino's work has such a strong personality that it's bound to repel some (I adore Bunheads as well, though I do recall people who disliked GG liking Bunheads, so you never know). But yeah, I don't watch many things that could be…

Because not everything that's great has to be super dark and super serious and be tackling The Big Issues. The problem with things like The Wire and The Sopranos being the gold standard of television is that it creates a environment in which it's assumed that only a certain kind of show is worthy of being placed…

I've been resisting falling down the gaping maw of Gilmore Girls on Netflix, but I saw this and immediately went and watched the first three episodes for the first time in forever. It was good even from the start.

These two are the most sexless people in the world, Their relationship so far is like two teddy bears being mashed together.

The AV Club REVIEWS television. If you want recaps, go to Vulture or something. Gilmore Girls is quality television. Gay panic jokes are a problem in television, particularly sitcoms. If you don't want to read that sort of thing, go to another site instead of just requesting lesser, uninvolved faux-criticism.

You probably don't need to defend your opinion against someone who used the term "Melliestans".

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I still felt the need to register my disgust.

I think Manhattan Love Story will be the first to go since I can't really see it bouncing back from dropping below what Dan Fienberg is calling "The Mulaney Line" (a 1.0). But I've been enjoying that show week to week too - it's not brilliant, but there are some good jokes in there for the most part (although the…

Oh sweetheart, your exhausting Puritanism really is bone-deep, isn't it?

That's a good read on the Annalise/Wes connection.

Fuck off forever.

This episode was all about loyalty - spoken and unspoken - and how it factors into relationships. Marren assumed loyalty from her employees without treating them as equals, her own aspirations getting in the way of teaching them to be like her professionally rather than having them stalking her, waiting to take her…

Joan Cusack too, please.

The problem with hoping for American Horror Story to pull off "a Russian Doll-style All About Eve scenario" is that it's American Horror Story trying to pull off a Russian Doll-style All About Eve scenario.

See also: carting away Meep as though he could have murdered an armed police officer.