That Hank/Max scene was gold. "I like real silence more than Aunt Sara's voice."

I thought this episode was really lovely, and all the character beats worked really well for me.

Oh my gosh! Someone else who played that game! So many hours of my life.

Watch/read/listen to all the DVDs/books/CDs I own but haven't gotten into yet. This probably isn't possible with my books (been behind on that for a long time), but maybe the DVDs and CDs will fair better. Mean Streets and Wowie Zowie, here I come!

Buster Keaton. I knew who he was, but I hadn't seen anything before I saw The General this summer. I've been hooked ever since. I must've seen a dozen of his features this year, not to mention shorts.

Ah, I see; sorry, I just misread. Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow aren't great approximations of Dalloway's style, but if you enjoyed the sheer challenge, then it'll probably right up your alley now. Plus, it's short. You could probably read it in an afternoon if you set aside a few straight hours.

I've never seen a Mrs Dalloway adaptation. That whole novel is so interior; I can't even imagine what a film version would look like.

I read three really big, assigned-reading classics for the first time this year:
Madame Bovary—I felt more respect than love, but a solid read.
The Age of Innocence—I liked it a lot, and it led me to the excellent Scorsese adaptation, to boot.
Mrs Dalloway—Kicked so much ass. Absolutely as great as its reputation.

I just went on a YouTube spiral watching all of them and… ah fuck, here they come again. What are you talking about, I just have something in my eye.

"The End"… oh gosh, so many tears. Every single one of those "awakening" sequences was a series highlight. It's like we got half a dozen "Greatest Hits" crammed into one episode.

So these reviews are definitely stopping after Season 3? I know 4-6 have already been technically covered, but Lost is a show that takes on such a different shape once you know the whole picture, and I think it would be worthwhile to look at the second half of the series through that lens, too.

It's Louie for me, but Hannibal is up there, too, along with Mad Men. Man, was Hannibal awesome this year.

I'm curious what will be #1. There hasn't been a runaway, universally acknowledged "THIS IS AWESOME!" show like there has been in previous years—Mad Men's definitely a contender, too, but even that hasn't been unanimously praised. It's a pretty open field this year, and I can see at least five or six shows as possible…

Yeah, I'm pretty pumped to see what beats them, too. I'm guessing Hannibal, The Americans, and True Detective will be on the next part, but other than that, I'm not quite sure what's coming.

You might be me… have I ever seen you in the same room as me? I don't think so.

Wow, legitimately surprised to see Rick and Morty and Louie ranked so low. It's not that I think they deserve to be higher (although I do), but I guess I thought the hyperbolic praise of their episode-by-episode reviews would have translated to a higher ranking.

Sun Kil Moon, "I Watched the Film The Song Remains the Same." I'm pretty convinced that this is going to become one of my favorite singer-songwriter songs of all time.

I know! I used to work at a law firm where my job description included not just filing but a bunch of other odd jobs, too, and I got paid minimum wage. The whole thing reminded me of that Lucille Bluth moment: "How much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?"

That actually might be the case. I sort of remember that contractual issues made it so that not everyone could appear in every episode (possibly why Sarah and Zeek were entirely absent this week and Adam/Kristina last week).

Aaron Brownstein looks like he might one day grow up to start a garage-rock/blues-revival band called The White Stripes.