Sweeps are not a thing on cable. For some reason that only makes sense in the heads of TV executives, CN just wanted a big event this week, I'm guessing. Maybe they thought it would get a boost from promotion during last week's game awards thing?

It's pretty weird that Donald Glover was about 10,000 times sexier as Marshall Lee than as a live person in last week's Valloween episode of Community, where he seemed oddly neutered.

I am totally in love with this show since discovering it a few week ago, but I can't agree with you that there are no bad episodes. Well, maybe I can agree with that re: S4 (from what I've seen — almost every episode), and S5 so far, because those seem to be the most delightfully crazy and far-out. But some of the…

BTW, I agree with the WFMU recommendation. The unpredictable quality of WFMU might freak you out at first, but it will grow on you in time. Or if you need something more normal-ish, try Altrok (if you can get it to stream correctly) or the Alternate Side.

BTW, I agree with the WFMU recommendation. The unpredictable quality of WFMU might freak you out at first, but it will grow on you in time. Or if you need something more normal-ish, try Altrok (if you can get it to stream correctly) or the Alternate Side.

I've always thought the acting in Farscape was much better than in B5, particularly season 1. The humor and the production values are better, too, and a lot of the prosthetics and special effects are very nice. Farscape's first season is pretty decent, despite its reputation. There are a lot of stand-alone episodes…

I've had the Nathan-Turner-produced VHS tape since the 90s, but I never finished watching the whole thing until a few weeks ago, for some reason. This review is very accurate — the VHS version is really uninspiring. I read the online script explaining what was happening during the missing bits, so that helped me…

You'd better believe it. Unico was one of the really strange things that I stumbled across in my local video rental stores when I was a kid. So emotional.

This was much funnier than last week's episode. The direction and editing seemed correct (more or less) again.

These numbers are "live plus same-day DVR," so they include DVR playbacks of these episodes until 3 a.m. that night (in the surveyed Nielsen households). You have to wait several weeks for "live plus seven-day" numbers.

The reviewers just need to give tougher grades. Sometimes they give a B to a sort-of-half-decent episode of a crappy show just due to the contrast vs. its even lousier episodes. But as far as I'm concerned, anything that's just sort-of-half-decent should never rise above a C at the highest. No curves. Some shows are…

"…it made me think of how great David Chase was ending an episode on a
singular image or moment, a talent that I don’t think anyone had quite
lived up to in the wake of Chase’s show’s success."

I watch both shows, but I find Bob's Burgers much more appealing. The characters are more pleasant and likeable. I feel like Archer is a much more misanthropic show. Its characters are all pretty awful people and I have trouble distancing myself enough to laugh at them with no engagement. (This is also why I hated…

I don't know about @avclub-c219ddd3b6c964a3c9e19b9bad10e1ff:disqus but, as for me, if Harmon were still around and we got this episode as a season premiere then I would criticize it just as much as I'm criticizing it now. I don't really know that much about Dan Harmon, nor do I want to attend his traveling…

For a show that only lasted 13 episodes, Oblongs was rerun so often on cable that it probably became a NOT-so-secret success to the people involved in making it, at least in terms of royalties, syndication profits, etc. I bet 13-episode programs rarely get that much mileage.

That's a local show in L.A. In most of the country, when you say "NPR" people think of news/talk shows like Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me, This American Life, and dreadful shit like Talk of the Nation and the Diane Rehm Show.

That's a local show in L.A. In most of the country, when you say "NPR" people think of news/talk shows like Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me, This American Life, and dreadful shit like Talk of the Nation and the Diane Rehm Show.

For the food, you dongus! Of course, DUH.

Me neither, and I'm a dude.

Wow, really? Cool. Even though Brooklyn is now all the rage in real life, most NYC-based TV characters still don't seem to know that there is life in NYC outside Manhattan, as if it's still the 80s or something. And nobody seems to give Queens any respect. In the pilot of 666 Park Ave., they acted like moving into…