Totally with you on the teeth thing. Most violence and gore in TV and movies doesn't bother me, but any trauma to the teeth sets me on edge like no other. Just the thought of a non-dentist taking a set of pliers to your teeth in a basement with nothing but some scotch to dull the pain gives me anxiety… I could barely…

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Casting my vote for final guest being Letterman in disguise.

As someone that watched and really disliked There Will Be Blood and The Master, am I likely to get much out of any of PTA's other stuff? I always hear so much praise for him but I found both those films a total slog.

Yeah, I felt something like that coming on as well, what with all the pseudo-mentoring Dawn was giving to Beth, it seemed like passing the torch. I was half convinced during the prisoner swap that she was going to choose to stay, and then that she would stay so Noah could go instead.

Well, that was one of the best-shot episodes this show has ever done, but otherwise, that was a pretty lackluster way to end the half season. Nothing in the plot happened for legitimate character reasons, except maybe Rick's kill in the cold open and I suppose Dawn's asking for Noah back.

I have to disagree. While season 1 is great (and I'm not entirely sure the show has ever done an episode as good as the pilot), seasons 2 and 4 were stronger overall and I would hate to lose them. Even season 3 had the Dewey Crowe kidney-rampage episode.

Is it taboo to question the logistics of these characters moving around a little? I mean, sure, the timeline is pretty flexible as Beth has been gone for a while, but weren't Daryl and Carol pretty damn far from Atlanta last we saw them? I know it's the Walking Dead and it's unclear how far they really are from D.C.…

Don't really get the hype over this episode.

For some reason John Goodman sprung to mind immediately for that role. FUND IT.

Chet Baker is/was so fucking amazing based purely on the fact that he managed a significant comeback after getting his front teeth punched out. If you know anything at all about brass playing, you know that's just insane, especially at the pro/all-time great level.

The best part is the blond reporter chick and cameraman backing away what looks like at least a good four feet as he yells.

In "the grand scheme of things" pretty much everything is trivial. One could make the argument that environmental issues are the one thing (or one of a tiny handful) that actually aren't, because they affect more than just human civilization.

"Mythologize her life" made me remember the scene in The Sopranos where Christopher's screenwriter friend is teaching a class talking about how "we mythologize our inner narrative". Made me chuckle.

Two for two on the single-character episodes. They feel distinct and offer up new concepts for the show, as opposed to the others which are starting to feel a bit repetitive and stalling. Granted, they do feel a lot like some of the better LOST flashbacks, what with the little glimpses of connection between seemingly…

This show is so great, it's a shame more people aren't watching it. I'd put it in my top 3 shows still running, easily. It might even be the best, but I have a hard time making a comparison to Mad Men, which has been around so much longer that it's not really a fair question.

I use Daisy religiously in the Gamecube Mario Tennis and in Strikers, but not in anything else. Is that weird?

Oh boy, this a fun topic.

I normally don't mind Sonia's writing, but this review seemed to have very little to do with the show itself and so much to do with its - at risk of using a loaded term - political correctness. Maybe some other people feel differently, but I find that a petty and useless lens through which to criticize things. This…

Oh man, I meant that in the "foreign, reserved/mysterious guy with a bigass axe" way. Oops.