Death more often than not is a "Shock splatter fest" unless it's of old age or an incurable disease

The latest Who spin off, Class (whichever aired in Canada last Fall and while rushed I really liked) obviously with its school setting owes a lot to Buffy. Patrick Ness' writing may be a bit darker and it does have swearing and very brief nudity (which I guess BBCAmerica will cut), but…

Well Brantley definitely has his own office—I can vouch for at least that.

Fair enough, but… I just find it kinda too romantic comedy cliche. It almost comes off like "I don't really care about stretching my acting chops or this theatre thing—I realize I was just using it as an excuse to come to New York to find you! Thanks Toby for making me realize!"

You're not wrong—from what I remember. But I still remember some backlash and an apology (I think from Whedon himself) for perhaps implying Andrew was straight.

Makes complete sense to me.

Kevin says a lot of stupid things, but that line actually made me mad.

Isn't this meant to be a critic like Brantley at the Times—ie a top critic in NYC? That doesn't seem like too much of a stretch that he would have an office…

A terrible episode that should have been a lot of fun. And, oddly, the characters all seemed to be written poorly—and, if I recall correctly, it was one of the few episodes of Angel that Joss scripted himself. (It also had the whole mess of Andrew suddenly being a big hit with the ladies which I remember some…

James Lipton is THE worst. Seriously. How he lucked into some job where he seems to be respected as an authority is amazing to me, considering his own career largely consists of several infamous flop Broadway shows he co-wrote, and several different head writing gigs at daytime soap operas (including creating one—a…

I mean was he even on when Angel was on the show? I know he was on that episode of Angel (which I thought they might address because there was all that controversy about him suddenly being a ladies' man—I also remember thinking the tone of that Angel episode—one of the few Whedon scripted—was all off.) So I mean of…

I agree—even if I have to admit some of it was rather heavy handed. Was Marti Noxon showrunner that year? I know she was missing (maternity leave) for a lot of Season 7 and that showed-7 had some great stuff, but frankly was a mess and in hindsight I could have had the show end at Season 6 (horrible as it is to…

Those NYCB videos that have been released are amazing. And that is all I have to say.

Wow. You worry about -teenagers- watching this? I am sure you have no idea what they watch.

Nigel Finch who directed it did a lot of great, weird work in the 80s and then the rather good 1990 BBC tv adaptation of the gay novel Lost Language of Crames which some PBS stations carried—with edits. (Remember a few years later the trouble PBS got for Tales if the City?). It's worth seeking out. Sadly I believe he…

Meh I'm not a huge fan of Black's writing, though I certainly appreciate his work, but that's not even really true. He did an awful gay indie, The Journey of Jared, and some other tiny early projects. Big Love, not a primarily gay show, put him on the map. Then Milk. Since then he did some movie called Virginia with…

I DID remember that ;)

Yeah, I wasn't clear. You're right, as far as I can tell, Katims joined the Herskovitz/Zwick clan with My So-Called Life. Their next family drama was his own creation, Relativity (which was really good, but only lasted a few more episodes than MSCL and is much more forgotten—it should at least be streaming).

Oh right!! OK, I do remember that whole speech segment.

I've completely forgotten it lol.