Pointing out that Lucas clumsily employed a literary device does not excuse turgid action, wooden performances, banal writing, and a final product that feels lifeless and uninspiring.

My wife immediately said, "Joan's coming back with her fucking LAWYERS next week - you wait and see. It's gonna be amazing."

I rarely yell at my TV, but I furiously flung several "fuck-you"s at those pricks at McCann last night. Joan's story has always been tough, but with this episode I finally realized just what a tragic figure Weiner was positioning her as all along.

The most interesting thing about that question Paige asks Elizabeth is what it means to PAIGE.

I'd hate to be the one to tell Johnny Depp he's not allowed to smoke any of those tiny little cigarettes while he's playing the lead Crow (in Black-face, obviously.)

Remus doesn't like it when people talk about Remus like True Detective was the first thing Remus was in.

Do you think when Fellowes created those two, he thought "Bates and Anna should mostly have crime-related stories!" ?

That's a great list. Those three, and then Blanchett and Weisz, round out my top five.

In retrospect, this was basically the last time Charlie and Hurley were ever happy together, so I do appreciate it for that.

Yeah, it was the first appearance of Cheech, and the stupid van that they fix on the Island. I hate that fucking episode.

That episode, "Expose," was tongue-in-cheek and pretty fun - it also served as a great shot in the arm in the midst of that slog of the first half of S3. It was fast-paced, killed off two terrible characters in a hilarious way, and took viewers back to some of their favorite moments from earlier in the series.

"Tricia Tanaka is Dead" is worse.

Sorry. Explained that poorly. I knew that I'd missed the ending, and that there was more to the film; I just didn't know exactly what happened. I assumed that the good guys won (after all, they were alive and well in EMPIRE), but the particulars were left to my four-year-old imagination.

The thing that happened with Mike and RAIDERS happened with me and STAR WARS. Our tape ran out just as Red Leader crashes into the death star surface, and Luke looks down at the explosion. So, I never knew what happened. When we taped EMPIRE off TV a few years later, I kept wondering where the Death Star was, and when…

I took a Film as Literature course in high school, because apparently my high school was awesome, but it actually turned out to be more of an intro to film-making course. We absolutely never discussed subtext, or metaphor, or motifs, or anything like that. We learned about pre-production, production, post-production,…

Kate doesn't DO Taco Night!

You mis-spelled 8.