Honestly, I haven't completely sided with Kristina for most of this season.

I'm not so sure Kristina was in the right—maybe Amber shouldn't have been sleeping with him, but was it Kristina's job to come break it up? I don't really think so. So yeah, prior to this season, he was definitely the pleasant-if-phony character you're talking about, but this season, his kind of dirty campaigning and…

Bob Little's transformation from well-meaning upstart to mustache-twirling evil bureaucrat has been nothing short of Tommy Carcetti-esque. Only Carcetti didn't moonlight as a deranged killer on Friday nights.

Yeah, the whole bait-and-switch of the Sideways world is one of the major flaws with Lost's final season. I don't so much mind the happy endings it allows people (the various characters remembering their past lives together was one of the most emotionally satisfying parts of the finale for me), but that the show…

*puts up hands like Walter White* Ya got me.

So, I'm reservedly with you on Breaking Bad, whole-heartedly with both of you on Lost, and with neither of you on BSG. Guess we'll get along.

Oh, definitely. The giant exposition dump of "The Truth" does nothing to fix the really botched handling of the mythology in the previous few seasons. But there's still something kind of satisfying about seeing how everything was supposed to fit together.

I'm glad this piece mentioned that the mythology actually does make sense. One of the only things I enjoy about the finale (along with the final scene—sorry, Zack, I've never really dug the opening, which, given what the mythology eps had become, seems silly to me) is that it makes sense of the ridiculous tangle that…

On the next Parenthood: Zeke names their new town house the "Live-4-Ever."

While we're wish-listing, how about wrapping up the My So-Called Life reviews?

I've been having a hard time remembering most of these episodes, too, even though I'm positive I saw all of them only a few years ago. It's always been a little odd to me that while Season 9 is far and away my least favorite season of the show, it doesn't contain any of what I think are the show's worst episodes. But…

I get what you mean about there being not a whole lot of story, and Todd acknowledged as much in his review. However, I really disagree that this episode focuses "almost solely on comedy." I think a big factor in why it works so well for me is that it has such a strong undercurrent of pathos. In fact, I'm not even…

What didn't you like about it? I'm not saying that it's the pinnacle of the series or anything, but I can't imagine what would make it one of the worst. I'm sincerely curious here.

Ah, man, "Sunshine Days." I totally agree that this ep should have been the series finale. In my ideal world, the penultimate episode would have been some epic two-parter that wrapped up the mythology (kinda like "The Truth," only good and providing closure) and then "Sunshine Days" would have been a beautiful,…

That makes sense. Still, though, given that the "On the Next Parenthood" promos air during the episodes themselves, you'd think NBC could assume the viewers were already there for something other than romance. Or maybe I'm just misreading the fandom and the majority of Parenthood's viewership is there to see Lauren…

Hm. I had never heard of that. Good to know!

What I can't figure out is why like 90% of these promos heavily feature Sarah. Watching these things, you'd think she was the sole protagonist of the show, with occasional support from Joel and Julia.

Is it just me, or is it completely weird that Max's middle school has a dean?

True, but it did set up the great "Sartre"-"Star Trek?" exchange. So, kinda worth it.

Well, Kristina did smoke weed last season when she was in the throes of chemo, and there wasn't really a lesson there. Although I guess it was medicinal use, which is a little different than Amber and Drew just goofing off.