I realize Terrence Howard is regarded as a good actor, and he's certainly intense and charismatic, but I feel like once I got past that he was the part of this show that REALLY didn't work for me.

Oh yeah, I get it, and I think he was very well-realized for what Simon & Burns intended. It just felt like it curtailed that corner of the show for me emotionally. In the first, second, and third season, I was just as invested every time the Criminal wing of characters came on screen as I was in the Cops. Every…

I've never been able to shake the feeling that Marlo was a come-down from the Barksdales, just because Avon and Stringer and the rest of the clan had such a rich history as human beings. Marlo was just a shark, and I have trouble thinking of him as a guy with a life outside being a drug king-pin. Jamie Hector was…

I skipped to the end assuming the headline was just being bait-y and the interviewer and subject had just started joking around.

Indeed, you are right. I think I've been mentally willing that Emmy to be for "Recount" because I feel like it was the better movie.

I think he's still the only Emmy-winner (for writing "Recount" - a damn fine TV movie) from the "Buffy" cast, plus or minus the odd one-shot guest actor.

I don't think the average viewer understands the difference between the level of education required or the type of day-to-day work that a uniformed officer does versus a detective, though I agree that's largely why the show works for me.

The Will McAvoy character is a big dumpster fire of awful nobody could save. Jeff Daniels' natural likeability helps a little bit, and I agree he was never the problem with that show.

I've really liked Perry in his more dramatic roles. He was really well-used on "The Good Wife." And, even though "Studio 60" was a big, flaming trainwreck, he was damn good at basically playing Aaron Sorkin, and the only character I had any sympathy for even as the writing for all of them became shriller and…

"Cheers" rebounded with such authority for its last season that it's easy to forget how rough the two or three before it were. I'll still pause and watch whenever I pass a rerun from any season, though. Same with "Friends."

There are a LOT of people who will tell you it was prestige television, and that you just weren't smart enough to get it, if you silly Fox News or MSNBC or BuzzFeed Zombie Somethingorother.

I've started this one a couple times but never actually finished it.

With that i don't really disagree, or at least the link could've been drawn more strongly. The last couple episodes before the final one in particular felt like wheel-spinning, and would've been good opportunities for more systemic reflection, less "Adnan took some money from the mosque that one time does this mean…

Though the Ronald Cotton case was another example of one that was overturned using clear physical evidence. I agree that the segment was probably better reported (it was a well-done piece, I don't think saying so condemns anything else), but as even you've said, there's not exactly a dearth of stories of prisoners…

Your suffix-porn offends me.

This is where both the pearl-clutching and holier-than-thou moralizing breaks down for me as well. What's the ultimate extension of that viewpoint? Report on nothing? Who decides what's gratuitous or patronizing (I assure you, something you think is fine, someone else could easily find issue with)? I would rather…

Responding to this seriously and assuming this isn't purely Internet Moral Soapboxing.

The reaction of a lot of listeners (including me) has been, "This case was f'd up and this guy probably should not have been convicted based on the standard of reasonable doubt, but I still think he's probably the murderer."

I adored The Banner Saga. I'd had it in my head as a 2013 release until I looked at the date. I sank a lot of hours into my pseudo-Viking caravan this year. The art and music is easily the most beautiful experience I had in a video game all year, no new-fangled console necessary. I found the game surprisingly…

This is what I'm really tired of, in regard to "Serial." The nobs who've never listened to a podcast before declaring this THE BEST THING EVER. It seems to be the same group of nobs who didn't really watch much TV but rushed to declare "True Detective" THE BEST THING EVER, as if it wasn't from the same network…