I miss Colbert more, because it got at what I think the problem of American media consumption is at its root (we'd rather be incited and flattered than informed) in a way I have never seen anything else even touch.

The Killing in general was really well-directed. It was kind of fascinating in that respect, because the direction could ALMOST trick you into believing the show wasn't really, really bad. I kind of hope it's studied in film school classes, as a text-book lesson in, "What to do when you're handed a shitty project."

She's better off. These DC movies look terribad from top to bottom. Hopefully she can get an action movie not hand-cuffed to this horrid franchise.

My one major regret about Season 5 is that they didn't somehow plunk Young Christian down in Dharmaville to kind of tie up his connections with so many of the Island residents and Smokey. I kept waiting for it and (along with a time-travel twist involving Walt), it never happened.

"Colbert," like a lot of great shows, had to teach the audience how to watch it. It knew what it was right away, but it was so different it took viewers awhile to adapt.

My first thought when Stewart said he was leaving was that I was bummed he didn't just tell Larry Wilmore this before "The Nightly Show" ever became a thing. Wilmore's a great host, but the format is still so choppy that it remains kind of hard to watch. I'm sure it'll improve in time, but you could just plug the…

Good writers can break almost any rule they want. Most writers, particularly when they're starting, are mediocre-to-bad, and this is a VERY useful rule for a beginning writer until they're developed a voice that isn't purple and terrible.

I didn't like the Dorne detour in the books, either, mind. It was all part of the same problem. Random characters inserted into stories I didn't care about while core characters disappeared for entire novels. But from everything I've heard, the show is doing a better job of condensing the number of new Dornish and…

That line made me wonder if they brought Gendry along, since I assume he's taking over some Book Duties from one of Robert's other bastards. I've kinda missed him, as much as one can miss a minor character they hadn't thought about in a couple years.

She assumed they'd been properly trained to come right back when she screamed, "WHERE ARE MY DRAGONS?!?!?!?!?!"

The Moon Door opens and closes.

I'd forgotten about the pages and pages taken up by Ironborn randos until the review mentioned their absence. I am so happy so much of that appears to be gone. I'll happily spend some time with Yara and Theon and their scary father, but I do not need anyone else from that corner of the world to exist. I also…

That sucks. I do feel kind of bad for the guy. I thought he was good in smaller movies like "Life as a House" and "Shattered Glass." He reminds me a bit of Kristen Stewart, in that he's a perfectly respectable indie actor who inexplicably got a horrible part in a horrible blockbuster series. I'm sure he's crying…

I'm glad the review mentioned the look of the show, which is what really gives me hope this will be something different and interesting. Agent Carter was very charming in places and SHIELD has gotten better, but they both look like they were done for whatever pocket change was laying around under the ABC couches,…

I don't hate Scott Pilgrim, but I feel like a lot of the fondness for it derives from its source material, not the movie itself.

This. If I want to actually own a thing forever and be able to watch it when I want, without the capricious whims of licensing agreements or the need to buy digital copies with no features from Amazon, I get it on blu-ray or DVD.

Oh, "Strange in a Strange Land." I have been waiting for this.

I hope Don losing touch with the current generation is shown in his desperate attempts to stay relevant through his MySpace page.

It's definitely reductive to call it a "romance novel for television," in the same way it was reductive to call BSG a science fiction show. They both use genre conventions to tell smart, dramatic stories with fully-realized characters. "Outlander" definitely takes off from romance in the same way BSG jumped off from…

Bear McCreary can score every TV drama ever.