The thing that sets "Before Dying" apart from "Of Babylon," is that Michael Kenneth Williams holds the whole thing together by playing everything so deadly serious. Without that core, "Of Babylon" was a beautiful chaotic mess, but it became difficult to stick around after a few episodes (almost like the diminishing…

Milana Vayntrub off translator was a hoot. I love how the limits of the English words and phrases she knew impacted her personality.

Thank you. This is quite charming. I have never been so pleased to see my spelling corrected!

Yeah, I get that. It just would have felt more in the timbre of his original run if it was a cliffhanger about wheat subsidies. I don't dislike this ark, there's just some dissonance cognitively.

This arc was a little bit outside of my expectations for the West Wing, but it was totally worth it for President Goodman.

I'm from just down the river in Oregon, IL. We lived in the valley, so we couldn't get any over the air stations with rabbit ears. Everyone had big roof or yard antennas.
And yes, FOX 39 was the station of choice because it had Simpsons and Married… With Children on Sunday nights.

"She is acting like a real 'first wife.'" was a really killer line for me. I think it's the amount of entitlement in the room

"Scooby Doo can doo doo, but Jimmy Carter… is smarter"

I think he is using the connotative meaning of "unsubtle" and not the denotative meaning of "precisely correct."

Straight from Todd's review of "Competitive Wine Tasting:"

I firmly believe that the Nicholas Cage story-line was an excuse for Harmon to clarify the "Who's the Boss" story-line. Many reviews (AV Club included) said that the joke was that the professor quit because he believed that Tony "was the boss." Harmon wanted to state clearly that the joke was that if a question has a…

So wait…. am I supposed to believe that these Pennsylvania farmers are big Decembrists fans, or is it that in the universe of "The Farm" "Sons and Daughters" is a traditional folk song? Was this something they planned? Were they going to end the sophomore episode with a Mumford and Sons song played by their little…