I heartily second that. Please, let's have the reviews! This show is such a breath of fresh air.

I just watched this episode, and man, what a damn shame that this show won't get a second season. I know everyone else has pretty much said the same thing, but I just had to reiterate.

Cheers, too.

I wouldn't bring a lead pipe to a gunfight if I were you.

Anecdote of no particular purpose whatsoever: Somehow, the revolver from Clue got mixed in with the tokens for my family's Monopoly. Needless to say, that piece has become the favorite of many a family member, and several games have ended with the person using the revolver clearing the board while shouting "pew pew…

Aw, crap. I knew that…

For sure. Also, "Not Penny's boat" is another contender, probably the most iconic of the bunch. Still, I really do feel like the BLAMs take the cake.

It's an uneven season, but it's got plenty of good. And it does have one of the most genuinely shocking moments in the whole series.

It certainly does clear things up.

I've got nothing insightful to add, but holy shit, is "Stranger in a Strange Land" an awful episode.

I second Locke's place in the pantheon of great TV characters. And he's probably THE greatest religious character in the history of the medium. His characterization is the most honest, respectful, and insightful treatment of faith that I've ever seen on TV.

"Walkabout" makes me weep like nothing else. It's just such a beautiful realization of character and mystery and transcendence and almost everything else Lost could do.

Neither of those movies are historically accurate in the least, but I disagree that they're historically unaware. To me it seems like Tarantino made very specific stylistic choices that were informed by an awareness of not only the actual history of the events but also of the history of their depictions throughout…

I mostly agree with you. It's often irritating that Tarantino is more intent on being clever and fun than insightful. That being said, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained both seemed like his attempts to make movies with actual social and/or philosophical insights (with widely varying success—I think Basterds is…

Man, I hate that American Beauty won Best Picture. Not only were there way better movies that year, but it was such a pandering choice by the Academy. "Hey look! We can pick cool movies, too. We get this hip filmmaking thing. We understand how all you people are fed up with the suburbs. We know how cool and subversive…

Now I wish they had been in the movie, just so I could hear Zelda Fitzgerald called a historical babe.

Despite reading a good deal of his plays, I've never been a huge Shakespeare fan (and especially not a Romeo & Juliet fan), so that may have been why Shakespeare in Love didn't hit those highs for me.

For all his indulgences, Nolan is great at making movies about filmmaking that are also great entertainment without that interpretation. Even Tarantino struggles with that occasionally.

It's not a great movie. Some of those literary references are pretty hilarious, though. Hemingway was perfect.

Yeah, Saving Private Ryan is definitely overrated. But those battle scenes are some of the most tremendous and horrifying pieces of filmmaking I've ever seen. I also liked Shakespeare in Love, but it never quite hit that awe factor.