For what it's worth, I happened to catch Ben McKenzie and Donal Logue doing a guest spot on The Thrilling Adventure Hour live show in Brooklyn this past weekend and they were both very funny (they played a pair of robots on the "Sparks Nevada, Marshall on Mars" segment). McKenzie is freakin' tiny and looks about…

He also described shows like this (Smallville, for instance) as "basically six seasons of flour, eggs, and milk, and then in the last episode — cake!"

Would Ichabod even have known about the Pied Piper at all? The legend had been around since the late Middle Ages, but I don't know how well it would have been known outside of people familiar with German folk traditions (maybe a Hessian told him?). Goethe and the Brothers Grimm published versions of the story in the…

Yeah, the plot was kind of a mess. Good thing plot's pretty much the last thing I watch the show for — well behind the wacky supernatural hijinks, bullshit made-up history, John Noble scenery-chewing, and the leads' off-the-chart chemistry and bantering (seriously, I'd still watch the show if Mison and Beharie were…

Ichaccinos would be a natural for pumpkin flavoring if that weren't already played out.

[Insert standard AV Club grumble about Firefly/Terriers/Rubicon/Wonderfalls, etc.]

I thought she was great back when she was on Gilmore Girls, where her weight wasn't really much of an issue. That she's since been slotted into "wacky fat girl" roles seems more a knock on the unimaginativeness of Hollywood casting directors than on Ms McCarthy herself.

As someone already mentioned downthread, perhaps it's "Lou Cipher" a la Robert DeNiro's character in Angel Heart.

The passport Hawley gave him as part of his fake ID packet was brown not blue like a US one, so it was presumably a UK/EU passport.

Yeah, I'd be hard pressed to think of another show where not only is only one of the five core cast members (I'm counting Abbie, Crane, Irving, Jenny, and Katrina — although at this point Katrina's still more of a plot device than an actual character) a white male, but even more interestingly, this isn't really even…

I really want it to turn out that Henry's law firm is the east coast branch of Wolfram & Hart.

I went into it almost completely blind. I had a vague notion of what it was about from reviews when it was first published and that I'd mostly forgotten by the time the movie came out (also a friend of mine who'd read it and whose opinions I trust dismissed it as a potboiler, so when it hit the bestseller list I…

They seem to have this bizarre notion that the UN Secretary General is an actual head of state and that once the Antichrist gets the gig, the whole world will have no choice but to bow down before him and follow his will, when in reality the Secretary General is just a high-profile bureaucrat who spends most of his…

I think it highlights the fact that child actors aren't really actors per se: they occupy some hazily-defined point on a continuum somewhere between trained animals and actual actors, with that point shifting one way or another depending on both the age and skill of the individual child, and that all too often they…

I think by the time I gave up on it, every character had turned from good to evil and back again or vice versa or had found out they were some other character's long-lost relative or both — none of which ever really seemed to advance the overall story much. Beyond a certain point, it just became too exhausting to…

Well he does have the advantage that the show not only encourages but all but demands an all-in, go-big-or-go-home approach. With material this preposterous, I don't know if it's even possible to give too hammy a performance.

Ichabod goes to Hawaii — where he confuses everyone by insisting on calling them the Sandwich Islands.

And stealing milk to feed stray cats. She only did that once, so people might not have picked up on the connection.

I loved Irving just shrugging and saying, hey, it's in an underground concrete-lined vault with six-inch thick steel walls and 24/7 armed guards. Gotta admit, dude's got a point.

When Fringe ended he must've thought, "Damn — no way I am I ever gonna get to do anything this nutty again." And lo and behold, here comes Sleepy Hollow, which is not only exponentially more batshit, but its producers are basically telling him, "Let 'er rip!"