You can dislike him as a writer (and I do quite a bit), while still appreciating what he does with his money.

I appreciate his science nerdery. I dislike most of the creative stuff he does, but we all contain multitudes. At least he's doing something positive with his money.

I think the effort of doing the American accent drains a lot of life out of his performances. In all the roles I've liked him, he's been allowed to actually be English. These were mostly comedic, so I'm not sure how much is from that as well.

Given the frequency with which things disappear from streaming services due to licensing issues, and the sub-par video quality (rarely matters, but in some cases with shows like Breaking Bad, it does)? Yep, I still buy DVDs/blu-rays. Not as frequently as I used to, but it's still worth it to me in some cases.

It's such a non-plot point in the show, alas, that I can't speculate with any authority. I've always fan-wanked it was one of the many Assistant Coach Who Never Speaks figures who wanted a shot at the head job.

I write off the TMU thing as a decision made assuming cancellation was more likely than not, and this would be a one season-and-done show. If that's the last you see of the Taylors, it works as an end-point for them that's triumphant, even if it feels rushed. It's a problem because the show got renewed but (unlike a…

I'm assuming because of the decision to give Terry O'Quinn most of the Man in Black material. Which is something I like in theory and was occasionally fun, but I never felt like it was worth the loss of "real John Locke" in practice.

They clearly didn't know quite how they wanted to play the Jin character in the beginning, because he is set up as the cliched oppressive, abusive husband. "House of the Rising Sun" shows he's more complicated than that and their relationship is more complicated, and eventually those aspects of the character get…

Like many people I grew to kind of hate Jack over the course of "Lost" and have kind of come to the conclusion that killing that character in the pilot - as was in the original script - would've made the show ultimately better.

Yeah, Nolan does IMAX up right. His films are actually made with it in mind, so it's not just your standard film blown up on a giant screen. In most other cases I don't particularly think the experience is worth the money, but it definitely was for me with "Dark Knight" and "Inception," and based on those I'll be…

"The Boondocks" was one of those projects with such a unique voice that I don't think anyone could have reproduced it. Part of what made this season frustrating is that the writers were clearly trying to ape McGruder, which maybe kept them from doing their best work, but how do you not ape someone when their voice is…

Bummer that it ended like this, but I'm happy to have had "The Boondocks" on TV for awhile, and if there's ever a complete series box set I'll probably buy it, warts of this last year and all.

The finale is admittedly what puts it over the top for me. Absolutely classic TV moment.

I've admittedly been avoiding the comments because, while the first season had its charms (mainly Brian Blessed), I very much don't care for it.

I always figured I was an outlier for favoring Blackadder Goes Fourth, though I also love the second and third. The first is my least favorite by a pretty fair margin.

I was not going to do more than skim this, but the increasing terribleness of every character description made me keep reading. So, maybe the show too will be so bad, you can't look away.

I assumed the Texas football head coaching job was something of an outlier, in that that position was specifically staffed just for that without the expectation of the person holding it teaching another class. I think it's like that in general at 5A schools where football is a big deal, though I had quite a few…

They were indeed pretty bad in retrospect, and it doesn't help that the 1990s are remembered in a relatively positive light, as far as decades go.

Julie as The Worst is in the eye of the beholder. If Matt Saracen deserves better…well, he is The Best, and he could be with pretty much anyone and deserve better. I ended up being fine with Julie, for my part.

I also don't think a woman should ever have to defend liking or finding something resonant in a "male anti-hero" drama, which is a trend I find distasteful in its own right. We need more good shows written by women with strong female characters, absolutely. That's not going to limit the enjoyment I get out of…