I LOVE "Expose." I realize it's one of those episodes you either hate or adore, but I'm firmly in the latter camp. It's definitely an acknowledgement that those characters weren't working and a vehicle to dump them as quickly as possible, but gosh it's a fun way to do it.

Everyone's entitled to an opinion. This is not one I share.

While I've never thought about it too much, now that Myles mentioned it, I'd have much preferred a Locke episode entirely focused on his Island visions, without the clunky flashback that never really became relevant again. We'd gotten Island-centric flashbacks before (Claire with the Others in "Maternity Leave") and…

There's less risk in trying to sell a familiar property than in trying to sell something new. Pretty soon, there will come a year when not a single original property is made, only remakes.

Yeah, no. Stop trying to make AppleTV a thing, Apple.

So this is the first episode of "Glee" I've actually watched, start to finish, in about a year. I quit the show after the school shooting episode and, while I've seen bits and pieces, I have mostly successfully kicked it. But last night I was in a hotel room without much to do and randomly turned on the TV. There…

I was working at a small daily newspaper owned by a large national chain while Season 5 was airing, so I probably have a warmer place in my heart for the newspaper storyline than most. While the office politics felt true, it still didn't really work for me.

Mad Men's a strange case. It was so praised in its first seasons that it was really easy for enthusiasm for it to cool, and now it's bizarrely under-rated.

FNL gets in with the same allowance I give Season 5 of The Wire, Season 1 of Breaking Bad, and the random uneven periods of The Sopranos.

I hated every single character on The Sopranos.

Just taking individual elements, I can name any number of shows that did one or two things better than "The Wire."

I feel kind of bad for everyone who shelled out for the HD box set, with this coming so soon. I have trouble picturing the customer who'd prefer HD DVD over blu-ray, but admittedly they may exist.

I love the finale of The Wire. Every character arc felt like it landed in the right place, even if that place wasn't terribly happy.

If it did, I'd buy it, and I own ever season on DVD.

The way we need to craft clear heroes and clear villains (both in fiction and even more horrifyingly in actual media) is something I could rant incoherently for pages upon pages about. And it's only tangentially connected to this episode of "Scandal." But, bottom line, it's why this episode ultimately stopped…

The real problems are institutional. They enable people like Newton (and Darren Wilson), but reducing this stuff to individual villainy just lets those in power off the hook, and holds no one accountable except scrubs at the lowest level. The DoJ report on Ferguson was horrifying to me not because Darren Wilson…

I'd give it a B because, while I found it emotionally effective due to the timeliness, a lot of it only kinda worked dramatically and it got really broad in places.

Oh God, the GamerGate episode. I'm not sure I can judge it, because I hadn't watched SVU in years and turned in specifically because of the subject matter but…oh God. That was a thing that happened on TV, that was.

The western half the country is increasingly Latino and some cities in the Southwest are majority brown, or will be in another five or ten years. Race is experienced differently than it back east. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

It's problematic that there's so little representation of Latinos in English-language media as a whole. If that was better, "Boyhood" and every other film about a specific experience could be as white as it wanted and nobody would care (or should particularly care, who knows what people would do), because there'd be…