Hmm, just random. I believe our fellow commenters and/or a different AV Club article made me aware of it, so it's been on my list of shows to check out for a while, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Hulu is also a little wonky for me and will freeze up after a commercial break sometimes, so that's not encouraging. Even…

Yup, I've seen about two full episodes and scattered bits and pieces of CM and that's all I could stomach. Enlighten me, then. How are the comments around here wildly inaccurate? Are there not still long, lingering, unnecessary shots of women getting tortured by serial killers on a regular basis? Was this more of a…

Yeah, I admit I botched that. Low blow, too, I know, but torture porn makes me really upset. A lot of viewers are probably just watching the show to see women get victimized in the most appalling ways that CBS can get away with showing. I could almost forgive that if the writing were better, but it's not, unless…

Wow, I've never even heard of Real Humans (Äkta människor). Sounds good, but I presume there's no legal way to get it here in the U.S.

Yeah, the show is definitely overhyped, its sense of psychology is pathetic, and its plots are usually too thin and sketchy. I still enjoyed some of it for the acting and direction and cinematography, and it gets much, much more interesting towards the end of the season. I barely stuck around that long because the…

This cheap little show had some promise in season one, but I thought they bungled a lot of season two, and it got worse in season three. The incompetence of the writers is pretty mind-boggling. Also they need some lessons on how to stretch a small budget. Maybe some indie filmmakers or somebody who worked on Doctor…

Better than… most? Of? The? Shows? On? This? List? Criminal Minds? Ha ha! You got me there. I… wait, are you serious?

@avclub-fe858281188f10005605ea7b1dd0bf7f:disqus Fox?!?!? What?!??!???!?!!???????

That's strange, Verizon FiOS is also failing to move FXX out of the sports section of its channel lineup and into the general entertainment section. And they built in such INSANE amounts of empty space in the lineup for new channels that they move it near FX really easily.

Probably they mostly make Nutley jokes because Nutley is a funny town name. I often go to the ShopRite in Nutley and I've never seen any run-down prostitutes there. Heh. There are definitely some funny characters there, though. I get the impression that Nutley is a little bit white-trashy compared to other places…

Yes, yes, I'm aware of that. I'm one of those rare Americans that HAS heard of ITV. BUT, ITV has far fewer commercials than American channels like BBC America. My understanding is that ITV does about 8 or 9 minutes of commercials per hour. No? The standard here is 18 minutes. (UGH! You CANNOT LIVE without a DVR here.)

Wait, what crime scene reenactment are we talking about here? Did I miss something, or was this something that BBC America cut for time so they could fit the episode into an hour slot with 18 minutes of commercials? (The BASTARDS. No reason they can't just air it in a 75-minute slot. Wankers.)

As a long-time Doctor Who fan, I am surprised to say I like David Tennant a lot better in Broadchurch than as the tenth Doctor. (Not a lot of people are going to agree with me on that one, I suspect, particularly not the Tennant Whovian fangirls and fanboys.) He is just much better at "surly and brooding" than at…

From what little I can remember, @persia2:disqus has it right. This show was pretty good (by the standards of the time) in its first season, or its first few seasons. (Disclaimer: I was around 12 when it premiered, so what did I know? Maybe it sucked even then; I haven't seen it in years. But if so, then it sucked…

You're thinking of TV as it was 10 or 20 years ago. Surprisingly, they don't film that many new dramas in L.A. anymore.

Farscape was normally so good at subverting tropes. So this one, the unkillable supervillain who's left in a deadly jam at the end of many of his episodes and always gets out of them without any explanation, kind of stands out and bugs me a bit.

The production code numbers are on Wikipedia and suggest that they didn't shuffle anything beyond the first four episodes of 2013 (e.g. moving "40% Leadbelly" back from first to fourth, which is understandable because it sucked). However, we don't know if they got all the scripts at the same time and maybe shuffled…

@avclub-4ce23e30a635b783fc8bb5d7844a07ee:disqus To be clear, your stray observation is what inspired me to comment on this in the first place — otherwise I would have just figured it was my memory. So thanks for that.

Yeah, I've noticed that. Maybe because this is an ITV show, BBCA is showing it less deference or something?

Hmm, I don't remember that scene either. OTOH, I have a terrible memory.