"The 23rd Psalm" from Season 2 is, I think, one of LOST's best hours. It suffers a lot in retrospect because the actor playing Eko wanted off the show so badly they had to scrap their plans for the character, but it's still great.

So much fun. I understand the haters, but I've always strongly disagreed with them. As much as I enjoyed the mythology of "Lost," it was always at its most fun for me in those episodes that were expertly-told short stories. "Walkabout" (maybe the show's finest hour) is this, and it's generally a marker of my other…

I thought Dracula was a metaphor for alternative energy initiatives.

The LAPD functions genuinely differently than it did in the 1990s. It's not perfect (it would not be hard for you to track down links to display that it still kind of sucks), but it has gotten better because the police force changed the way they trained officers and engage with the idea of community policing. Reform…

Having McCoy as the boss with Linus Roache pulling his old tricks really injected some new life into things. Van Buren probably would've left a hole, and I'm not sure who could've filled it, but I definitely liked that last season more than I'd enjoyed the show in ages.

Much as I missed Green and (especially, of course) the late, great Jerry Orbach's Lenny Briscoe, I didn't hate Jeremy Sisto and Anthony Anderson. They weren't the best detective team, but part of what made me kind of sad to see L&O go was that I felt like it actually had a solid cast all around for the first time in…

Stricter reporting requirements would actually do a lot to get a handle on the problem and provoke some kind of systemic change. The FBI's tracking of killings by police and deaths in police custody is grossly inadequate, and it wouldn't be hard to mandate changes to that. I suspect this actually WILL come about as…

This stuff is taken "seriously" in cycles. MLK was talking about it 50-sum years ago and you can go back and read quite a lot of social debate on the treatment of the black community by police from that period. There was a great deal of talk about it in the 1990s after the Rodney King beating. Now it's getting…

There are LOTS of people on the Internet who clearly aren't ready for self-governance. I don't know anything about their social class, though, except that it's advanced enough for occasional computer access.

I'd sorta love to read the John Waters think piece on this. I'm not sure if it would sort out anything, but I'd probably enjoy it.

Does Tumblr even still exist without animated gifs?

I figure next year will settle. I see all the grades as curved for the show in question, and nobody expected "Jane the Virgin" to be as consistently good as it has been. It's certainly had some B episodes (relative to its general level of quality), but I don't think any have been outright bad.

As sick as I am of all the new characters just flooding into a show about the the "last" man on Earth, the Second Phil Miller thing was funny, as was Old Phin caving to going by Tandy.

At this point, I feel like you know this is a possibility if you buy a ticket for a Chappelle set, and it becomes a buyer beware situation. I'd love to see him in person one of these days, because when he's on he's really on, but I wouldn't pay for the most expensive seats.

The first is also the only season where the end-reveal of 'Who Is Gossip Girl?' could actually make logical sense. The show did have a plan, the plan was just periodically abandoned and forgotten as it rolled along.

On the one hand, Hannibal has officially done the trick one too many times with me, and I'm starting to just throw up my hands and assume nobody but the victim of the week is ever actually dead.

I do think there's merit in the idea of high-quality sound streaming. This ain't it, though.

I think it's important to remember the context of Season 3 in general, which the audience was frustrated with. This was before the finale basically rewrote everyone's perception of it. I can, in that context, see why "Expose" pissed people off, since it is kind of a huge waste of time. But it's a damn fun,…

Fuck it, I love it, too. It's in my personal "Lost" Top 10. In a season where the flashbacks were getting stale, it was actually a new use of the formula. It was great to see departed characters like Artz again. Most of all, it was just fun. "Lost" could get overly self-serious at times and needed moments like…

So making TV specifically made to be hate-watched is a thing now? I guess Netflix needed a replacement for "Hemlock Grove."