Maybe, maybe not, but The Wire handled it in the most realistic way possible and not merely for the sake of entertainment, bad exposition or shoddy character development. The Wire took something implausible and did its best to make it plausible through its devotion to realism and its actual experience with law…

Can't think of any at the moment. You and your Internet buddies can go back to giving 10/10 to movies and shows on IMDB that you haven't seen yet now.

Put simply, the people who defend season two of True Detective as "brilliant TV" are potentially failing to see the forest from the trees. The shortcomings of this season were not through intent, but execution, and your mini-essay was more provocative than the show itself.

No need to shout. You're not projecting "yourself"—you're projecting your notions of what the show is trying to say and letting those notions overshadow the poor quality of the execution. Comparisons to Lynch are superficial at best and comparisons to The Wire are downright laughable—you would never see an…

My pleasure, and it's okay, I don't know your age but if you're under 30 you're part of a generation that consistently (and often completely) misapprehends quality, aesthetic, character development and original storytelling.

Crappy dialogue, convoluted storytelling, implausible action sequences, unrealistic police procedures, stoic acting and weak character dynamic is what makes bad TV bad. Execution is everything and the only people who elevate this show beyond its actually abilities are the ones who tricked themselves into thinking it…

As indicated by the abundance of moronic comments in this section, Moebius was and will remain a criminally overlooked artist who contributed far more to music than most people will ever imagine. He put his stamp on everything he played all the way up to his last works and gave electronica an edge that persists to…

People are people and just because someone does something brash or irrational and then later redeems him or herself, it doesn't make them manipulative with a supposed a heart of gold—it just makes them a human being like most human beings, capable of an emotional or behavioral range that on occasion might yield…

Are you a blogger or a critic? I can never tell on this website because the grades so consistently seem to reflect the writer's personal biases as opposed to the genuine value of the episodes. If you're a critic, you should be going with your "brain" and not your "heart" and evaluating the show outside the bubble of…

The scene where the wire is showing through Dell's soaked white shirt was one of the most refreshing comic moments (for me) in recent memory.

I honestly don't know (or care)—I'm just saying that if it is the case then something must have gone on behind the scenes that was far more dramatic than one actress stealing another actresses' mojo. Hopefully the two characters will share a scene before the end of the season, if only to retain some of the audience…

I agree that this show would benefit from shorter seasons, disagree with everything else. This show has always involved character's betraying each other's trust for their own benefit. Just last season Alicia and Cary LEFT THE FIRM because they were promised partnerships they didn't receive. Who made those promises?…

I'm starting to wonder if there is more to this story than simply Margulies being "jealous" of the attention Panjabi was getting. Last night it almost felt like the writers were doing everything short of creating a hologram just to put those two characters in the same room. I would have to assume there was some major…

This is one of my favorite shows on TV, but unlike many others I was somewhat letdown (albeit still captivated) by the most recent season. I felt like the writers were trying almost too hard to veer away from the somewhat over-the-top violence of the second season, and that certain plot-lines were protracted to the…

Personally, I'm hoping they return to the old format of episodes that balance a good procedural with a good story arc like they do in their strongest seasons. I don't mind the SA arc in some episodes, in other episodes it feels forced. Also, I'm just as happy to watch Eli or Diane in their element as I am Kalinda, so…

Actually, I just re-watched the first season, which is endearing and excellent, but also somewhat generic—more of a CBS procedural drama with an ambitious scope rather than its own entity. The show starts to find its voice midway through the first season, but it's season two where things really pick up. That's when…

I really have to wonder what previous AV Club reviewers of this show think of this current season. I've been watching a lot of older episodes that received higher grades but were equally as average. I'm saying this as someone who thinks the majority of recent grades have been inaccurate and The Good Wife still makes…

While I do agree that this season isn't one of the better ones, and the recent string of episodes seem to lack a certain emotional investment toward many characters, I find the grades to be consistently off-base. Yes, the pacing is a little varied, substantial plot points are handled in a somewhat hurried manner, and…

How dare those pesky writers take some time to figure things out like they do every year! We want our political drama and we want it now!!!

Hence my analogy to songs on a given album. Just because one song isn't as good as the others, doesn't make it a bad song and to grade it as such is to drag it down to a place where it doesn't belong. Furthermore, there's something called a "median". If a season is given an "A-" that doesn't equate to all "A-" grades…