They aren't a laughing stock, but there are clearly issues in the AMC development pipeline that its recent efforts highlight. "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" were shows that sort of fell in its lap. They had both been passed on by other networks, HBO and FX respectively, just because the other channels felt like they…

No.

The only Green Day album that's aged well for me is "Warning." That one's also the main reason I can't entirely slag them off. "Dookie" and "American Idiot" feel like products of their time in very dated ways, but I don't dislike them.

The first season of "Breaking Bad" was impacted so much by the writers' strike that I don't think you can compare it to any show that airs under normal circumstances. The pilot was also absolutely stellar, and I think it had a trajectory that was weird in a different way than the first-year flailing that most shows…

Bummer. I've been looking forward to HBO's "American Gods" for years, even as it kept not happening.

Do some people not understand that you can get all the bad erotic fan fiction you want for free?

Indeed, thanks. Very much enjoyed the write-ups as an excuse to revisit what's easily my favorite mini-series. And I concur that it gets dusty in the room every time I watch those ending interviews.

The plagiarism instances and inaccuracies like the stuff with Blithe hurts the work. It just does and you can't get away from it, and it needs to be part of the conversation when discussing his stuff.

New to me would be more appropriate. Read the original a looooooooong time ago.

I'm slowly working my way through the King catalog. I was a big fan was a teenager but sort of left his books behind after awhile and didn't pick them up again for awhile. "11.22.63" was one of the first I read when I decided to revisit his stuff, and it's strikingly great. I love King's tropes, but when he gets…

I was so afraid when I saw this headline that "Riding the Bus with My Sister" would be overlooked for its horribleness because it was a TV movie rather than a film. But there it is!

The more apt comparison is paid MP3 downloads, which streaming services are taking a big chunk of business from.

I would be surprised if FOX offered him the job, and more surprised if he accepted it. It seems like it'd put them in precisely the same situation they had with Reilly (who also did some time at FX and seems to have brought that mindset to his FOX job) except even more so, and they clearly want to run away from that.

Maybe cancelling "Dads" is what got Reilly fired (ahem, "mutually ended his professional relationship with FOX).

"Sleepy Hollow" I think will be OK if it maintains the ratings it did this season. As I recall it was comfortably successful. What I'm worried about with it is that the next exec will try to beat 22 episodes a season out of it. I think Reilly was quite smart in giving it a smaller episode order. It seems like its…

I liked the first two seasons well enough, but I never had the love for "Community" a lot of people did, and at a certain point I grew to feel like if you weren't in the Cult of Community you had no business in its audience. This is probably more a complaint about the off-show stuff that surrounds it, but it's turned…

The fight with Guarnere is the big scene that's problematic, since Guarnere is insulting Sobel for being Jewish, to which Liebott responds, "I'm a Jew." *punch*

Huh. Indeed he wasn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

I love how tired that moment feels. The soldiers can't even celebrate it, given all they've seen and given that they aren't finished yet.

I like that in theory, but the character has been so either underwritten or ill-used throughout the show that I'm skeptical it can be done in a satisfying way. I feel like Fuller has a blind spot where the character is concerned, which keeps him from seeing how cringe-y stuff like her sleeping with Hannibal when…