You forgot the riveting episodes about soil conservation, crop rotation, and the effect of micro climates on yield.

I thought Dexter's ending was very daring- I never imagined that the whole series was dreamed by a hibernating libertarian bear.

It's bizarre that 'women being raped' is now some kind of mark of verite in comic books. Somehow I want to blame 'the killing joke' for this.

I'm pretty sure they were just horrified by his mustache and side burns. Tell me you could look at those things in person without recoiling in disgust.

Don't get crazy there. It's watchable, but it's no [choose one of: sopranos/madmen/breaking bad/the wire/the shield].

imo Beth was written as an unformed mass and that qualities like 'sweet' or 'meek' are just inferences by the audience. I could just as easily have described her as petulant and morose in season 2 and that would probably work as well.

My ears are crying.. blood.

You just came up with the greatest band name in history: 'Empowered post apocalypse Lena Dunham.'

Get back to folding! Those scrubs aren't going to press themselves.

I imagine raccoon asses to be adorable, aside from all the rabies.

Awww hell yeah. I realized that we had entered the bizzaro tv universe when twd ratings increased 50% between season 1 & 2. Every narrative decision in season 2 screamed 'we have no budget, whadyagonnado?'

The slack jawed direction implied that food was grown on the hospital roof, but I was writing about meds. Or maybe they have a clozapine shrub on the roof and a McKesson distribution center next door.

I wish you were half as smart as you think you are.

Any woman who could doink Alan Greenspan is OK in my book. Ayn Rand was a woman, right? And not a bear disguised as a human who had read too much Nitzsche?

Kill the socialist bear! If he lives, we'll soon all be living in communal caves and hibernating through proletarian winters of discontent.

Ugh, if you think twd season 2 or 3 was an upgrade from season 1, there's no point discussing further. You like farms and wells and lazy writing. I don't. No reconciliation is possible.

Unlikely. Only two 'writers' have remained through all 5 seasons, and they're associated with the comic books (Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard). In all likelihood they're figureheads and 'story consultants' more than actual writers.

You're a cat and you're persistent, which in my book is better than a doctor.

In a rational world, you are correct. But twd defies reason- no matter how bad it becomes, the audience just keeps growing. Eventually zombies will be out of fashion and the show's many narrative failings will be exposed, but until that distant day, we'll have a new bad guy (who didn't start out so ba!) every season.

I once went camping for a week in Yosemite, and the first survival lesson I learned was to bring enough fresh drinking water and batteries to operate an electric iron.