A million percent agree. He seems to have forgotten about song structure and melody here, so no matter how pretty the production, it ultimately sounds like an amorphous blob of nothing - some gussied up spoken word mutterings and that's about it.

His mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra is far and away his most accessible work. I say start there.

It did need to reshoot, but they're still advertising it premiering 9/23.

Yep, she's still alive. Just got an Oscar nomination last year for Best Original Song.

The main appeal to this show, at least to me, was that it wasn't interconnected. Every season had the potential to be anything while not worrying about anything that came before. Ryan Murphy still has no clue how to sustain a series beyond 1-2 seasons, so this was going to keep his creative aimlessness in check and…

And they face off against the villainous Jessica Lange?

The second season is the only worthwhile one.

The entire television industry is guided by "arbitrary demographics" (and what a terrible, misinformed, condescending phrase that is), so if he wants a show to survive with 4 people watching, he should go to streaming. I hear Crackle's nice this time of year.

Plus, older people watch more television, so they can be found for cheaper than the ad rates in primetime/late night. Why pay a lot to find people over 50 when they can be reached for cheap?

Being a doctor on Being Mary Jane, however, would be a delight.

One vampire show is done. The other vampire show is far from a lock for renewal.

The CBB playlist on IFC's Youtube is only 97 videos, which feels a little light considering the number of episodes.

Yeah, season two is overrated. The depression arc was out of nowhere and didn't jibe with what we saw in season one. Way too serious, way too dark. The show got exponentially less funny/energetic/entertaining because of that tonal change + how much they focused on Gretchen.

The only good thing about late-era Rescue Me was Maura Tierney. Everything else, minus maybe the eye candy aspect, was dreadful.

He didn't create Hart of Dixie - Leila Gerstein did. He was just an executive producer.

It's been a year and a half. How long should he be given when numbers are bad (down a lot from Colbert, down a lot from Noah, zero bump from hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner) and buzz is nonexistent (nothing viral, no awards, no acclaim)?

TV is a business. Noah's show does a lot better with younger viewers, does better through social media, and does really well on streaming. Wilmore's show had zero buzz (no award attention, no critical acclaim, no viral videos) and poor ratings + didn't seem to have a pulse in either category. Why would they keep The…

Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, The Nightly Show failing wasn't because it wasn't funny, it had numerable public gaffes, it had no idea what it wanted to be, it kept the part of the show that was most criticized, its ratings were bad, and it had zero social media presence/buzz. It was all because Larry Wilmore is black.

Playmakers.