As the apparent old man of AV Club Comments, I can confirm that ALIENS was, along with DIE HARD, everyone's favorite theater experience of the mid-80's. The initial coming attractions mimicked the original's sparse, "here's the title written out slowly" style, so all we knew, going in, was there were MORE than one…

Agreed. The novelty wore off quickly between S1 and S2. You'd have thought The Killing would've learned from this when they put off the Rosie Larsen reveal as long as they did.

To differ with the last paragraph of the review, I think the line "We have quite the collection" was the best distillation.

Man, I hated this show. There are two scenes from NBC in this era that I still think are the most embarrassing things I've ever watched. In Night Court's case, it was some far-fetched storyline about Marsha Warfield's character dangling on a ledge while experiencing diabetic symptoms no diabetic has ever experienced,…

Yes, and they produced an album for her. Joe Strummer said he channeled his inner Abba to make it.

Not nearly as popular as "Gag me with a hammer and sickle."

I never would've believed for an instant that Pastor Godboy, his wife Maude Flanders, or Martha would make it to the series finale alive. Not that I'm counting unhatched eggs just yet.

I agree, give Henry some love, folks. And per your other question, the part of Phillip Jennings next year will be played by a baby seal with a hurt flipper.

He's a little bit post-indoctrination Tom Tuttle from Tacoma Washington, that's for sure.

I saw that as well. He's been down this road before. His dick is like a geiger counter.

I am no fan of the concept of "the Jennings go home" and the only reason I would want it at all is to see a Phillip/Martha reunion. It would not go well.

"Plateau Straddler?"

God, I hope not, simply because the Kimmy storyline has skeeved me out from the beginning.

It wasn't mentioned in the review and if I missed a comment here about it I apologize, but the Jennings in their disguises standing before the agent assigned to Pacha's family is the most exposed I've seen them (from a security standpoint) since the S1 finale.

My interpretation of the GYBR sequence differs from the reviewer a little. I detected a smidgen of regret on Elizabeth's part that the stuff she now takes for granted in American life will be replaced by something far less comfortable. My assumption is the news from back home this year, weaponizing the Lassa virus,…

PS: STILL can't stand to hear the phrase "family meeting."

(pours his 40 to the ground for Terry Crowley and Lem)

It's the size of the story that makes me think again that Renee is a spy. Someone making the effort to flood an apartment building to set this up sounds like it could've been a Season One subplot.

AVALON was the opposite of AOR. It was (and in a conversation, Colin Hay agreed with me) the only album to fuck to in 1982.

If I'm not wrong it debuted the same season as Joan, and we see which one got picked by middlin' America.