I had the exact opposite reaction to the aesthetics of the episode. I liked that it called attention to itself. The color palette and the aesthetic side of it save the episode for me. The color palette gives it a vivid, multi-color (red, orange, green, blue, brown, white) look that instantly reminds you of Chinese art…

I have a few observations, but I'm not very good at coherence, so my comment will be a wall of text with ideas bouncing off eachother. Hopefully, at least some of what I'm about to say makes sense. I apologize in advance for the length of this comment. I realize probably no one will read it, but I may as well get it…

First, let me clarify that prior to listening to "mbv" I listened to The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Darklands" 3 times. That album is my standard for musical greatness, so any album I listened to after that was bound to suffer in comparison.

Yeah, I wrote a rambling comment about Anderson's subtlety as an actress. This is exactly what I mean. She plays emotion small. Think the scene in "Pusher" where she only lets one tear fall down her cheek. Or the scene in "Requiem" where she tells Skinner that she's pregnant. Or the scene in "DeadAlive" where she…

Speaking of how much this show has changed since the pilot, I re-watched the series when "I Want to Believe" came out in 2007, and I remember thinking about how subtle Anderson's acting got over the course of the series. Or at least that was my impression. In the earlier seasons up until the cancer arc in season 4,…

That's interesting because my impression after getting through the album ("getting through" it because it required effort and patience so as not to smash anything in the process) is that it's unfair to compare Free Energy with these pop-punk bands because, while "pop-punk" is the closest thing to describing Free…

My sentiments exactly.

My sentiments exactly.

I was just about to say this. I agree. I liked it when it was centered on Britta and Jeff. The first two seasons with Jeff and Britta were kind of like the Sam and
Diane years of "Cheers", which I also prefer over the workplace comedy
years when Rebecca replaced Diane. On "Community", I guess they replaced Britta with…

The things is, it both sounds like and is better than most of the crap they play on the radio these days. Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watc… .

What have you heard about Fey in the writers' room versus Fey on the set?

I'd just like to acknowledge Jane Krakowski's work on the show because she was terrific and consistently hilarious as Jenna. She was committed to every joke and was committed to selling every joke, whether it be physical comedy (eg. the gag with the sleeping pill Jenna took that was supposed to knock her out, but had…

You think so? I guess I assumed everyone thought season 5 was as bad as I thought it was. I liked season 4 up until the episode with the two janitors. On the other hand, for me, season 5 reached a level of horribleness so bad I stopped watching the show altogether.

Will watch it as soon as I'm done with the live show. Thanks! Looks like Criss is Liz's "Disney prince" with "beefy forearms." I only have a vague memory of Criss from that first season 6 episode I saw, but I'm excited to see how this storyline turns out. I didn't want to spoil myself so I haven't read any reviews of…

Thanks!

They're already reviewing "The X-Files" and "Millennium." They're at season 7 ("all things" is next), so you should get your season 9 reviews pretty soon.

So I survived this show's 5th season (it really was as terrible as people make it out to be) and I eventually abandoned it in season 6 because I couldn't stand the blandness this once great show devolved into. "Dance Like Nobody's Watching" was the last episode I watched, but after reading pretty much everywhere that…

I have no idea what episode it comes from, but I love the skit "20 Depressing Hits by Connie Franklin." You don't need to know the lady it's spoofing's music (Connie Francis). You just need to know that it's spoofing a sappy, sentimental singer in a LifeTime Music Collection-like commercial. If you must, just check…