How "great" is the relationship if partners can't talk about their sex life - and share information like "hey, this isn't working for me, can we try something else?" - without the other person getting huffy or sulky, or worse - just not changing anything? That's not my idea of a "great" relationship.

I agree with you. The burn was too slow for me. I bailed out of the show midway through Season 2. I don't mind a slow build and lots of nuance (I loved, loved, LOVED The Bridge, which another poster mentioned) but it just didn't seem like the characters in the Americans were evolving, or the story was advancing in any…

I've figured out that work isn't a great place for me to listen to new music, especially new music I'm really excited about, because I get too caught up in listening and then I forget to work.

Honestly - this. I totally agree with Dan (and Prudie over at Slate, who gives this same advice) that one person cannot unilaterally decide that another person has to live without sex for the rest of their life. My husband and I actually discussed, before we got married, that if one person got into a situation where…

I had a high-risk pregnancy and never - not once - did my OB tell me to stop having sex with my husband. (And, P.S. - I have never been hornier in my life than in my second trimester of pregnancy. It was CRAZY. You would think that whole process would just shut down once, biologically, you had accomplished what your…

I'm raising a son, and so have had to give this question some thought already, as we're trying to put him in front of media that shows good role models.

Me: "So there's a discussion going on at The A.V. Club about TV episodes that are so sad you never want to watch them again after you watch them once."
Mr. ApocalypsoFacto: "Oh, yeah? Has anyone mentioned the Futurama episode with FRY'S DOG? BECAUSE THAT IS LIKE SUPER SAD, MAN."
Yeah…a few people have brought that up.

Right then, you know something very bad is going down and there's no stopping it. Right up till I heard the c-bomb, I thought he was going to let her go. Then you hear the shot and you realize - oh, shit. He really did it.

That Jose Gonzalez version of "Teardrop" still gets me, if I hear it playing somewhere.

I will concur with the AV club that it was a tough episode to watch, but agree with you that it seemed really contrived and like a totally manufactured crisis. I didn't really understand what that episode was supposed to say about Hall's character - his fundamental nature, or his internal conflict, etc. etc.

Three TV episodes I'll never watch again (possible spoilers ahead):

Yeah…not sure what that comment has to do with…well…anything?

I grew up listening to Glen Campbell - my grandfather was a HUGE fan and always had a Glen Campbell 8-track, cassette tape, or CD in whatever pickup he was driving at the time - and was so sad to hear about his illness. I can't watch the video either, or listen to the song.

No, I think Scrawler pretty much nailed it. Sorry it went over your head. Or past it, or around it, or whatever.

I worked in an independent bookstore when the book got really popular. As horrible as the book was, we were grateful for it. Because we sold the everliving fuck out of that trilogy, and that helped us stay in business so we could sell much better books to more discerning customers with better taste. So - maybe she's…

Me either. What in the actual fuck.

At least in regards to the series finale.

Ditto

There's a selection of movies from the mid-90s I have a tough time watching again, because I saw them with an ex-boyfriend who's dead now. It's not thinking about the relationship that makes it hard - we had a good time, and when it was over we parted amicably - but thinking about him as ashes in a box, and not out…

Unless the OP is confused about what a merkin is. I am not confused; I Googled it just to make sure. It is what I thought it was. And so I am left with a lot, a LOT of questions about why McDonald's would ask someone to wear one.