That makes Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. look like Doctor Strange in terms of budget, but at least it's from a showrunner everyone already hates.

If you have ever liked her at all, I expect you'd love the one she put out last year. I thought it was phenomenal, and I'm honestly still listening to it more than most 2017 releases.

It's cute that as you scroll through this article, each listed album registers as a separate url for page traffic purposes. Stay classy, AV Club!

I'm pretty on board with that. I was thinking when I made my list below that nothing in 2017so far has grabbed me as hard as my top three from last year, and those were Bowie, Angel Olsen and Thao and The Get Down Stay Down.

That's interesting. Even when their studio work was exceptional (the first three albums, mainly) I never thought they were all that great live. They were a lot of fun, but not an exceptional live act. It would be fascinating if that dynamic had shifted to where the live show is the thing to catch.

NPR was the first place I ever heard Macklemore. They're not better than that.

My most-played so far are the Laura Marling, Jay Som, Tift Merritt, Feist, Courtneys, Lemon Twigs, and Lydia Loveless, which I guess means I'm responding more to female vocalists. There have been quite a few albums I was really looking forward to based on their older work (New Pornographers, Spoon, etc.) but which…

Hippie to the hippie
The hip, hip a hop and you don’t stop, a rock it out
Bubba to the bang bang boogie, boogie to the boogie
To the rhythm of the boogie the beat

"It’s rare for a band to pull off a record that’s consistently great from start to finish. Even when it’s a debut, for which the group presumably had as long as was necessary to whip into shape, pulling off excellence remains an elusive feat."

I've had trouble making it in myself this season, but if I see you, I'll make an effort to admonish you for neglecting your studies.

You've been busy trying to figure out who your monitor could be, I'd imagine.

I would make a case that it is you, Jane Says, who are the best. Your enthusiasm in these threads is one of the best things about this show.

It's when the plot from one episode carries over into a second episode to tell a single story across a longer running time than the show's episode length typically provides.

Glad to hear that. Given that they didn't bother to premiere until April, I figured it was the last priority on the CW's roster.

I feel like the larger personality changes were intended to give the CW something they could use to easily market the show? If not, then kudos to their marketing folks for realizing that highlighting the personality of the week makes for an easy commercial-break teaser for the next episode.

Send your sestra to class once in a while, posing as you?

My main issue with this finale is that all of the largest plot moments are delivered by tertiary characters. The big bad reveal happens without any of the main characters even being in the room, and then the news announcement happens while Liv watches, and then the long video from Chase. This was a prime example of an…

The scandal associated with this will be called, one assumes, Hot Dog Watergate?

Those are some awfully big assumptions on your part.

Completely agree, but I think the same level of patience and persistence is required if people are ever going to put together a cogent argument in favor of this story. Rushing to print every time a puzzle piece appears allows those involved to refute that particular puzzle piece, and prevent it from ever seeming like…