To be fair, The Good Wife has been getting quite low numbers by CBS standards and I believe its renewals surprised a significant number of observers. Going simply by ratings, there is no reason for CBS to have kept it going as its demo viewership is very low. Clearly there are other factors at work there.

Originally it was all about the way out-of-proportion solid 18-34 demo numbers, but even that can't be that great for Glee anymore. But they let Fringe play out, and I wonder if they are still getting good ancillaries (read: music sales) from Glee, so they will probably let it play out instead of Farscaping it a la…

Yeah, I'm not sure why I spend so much time reading those idiotic comments for the occasional nugget of wisdom hidden within. The A.V. Club has much funnier and more interesting comments. TVBtN seems to be plagued by irate 12-year-olds, or people who act like 12-year-olds, claiming that a show that is obviously doing…

Yep, still a more appealing brand than ExxonMobil.

You're wrong. You're thinking in terms of a few years ago. Ratings are down across the board and viewership is even more fractured than ever. A 3.1 is now considered absolutely magical for anybody. Even CBS would be pleased. The 34% drop is pretty scary and grim, though, I'll give you that. The real crucial numbers…

This episode flowed better than the season premiere (better direction?) and the case of the week was much more interesting. I guess if the writers were going to do an episode where the protagonists lose, they pulled the punch a little by making the "victim" such a scumbag, but it was still interesting and compelling.…

It's a bit of a mystery how the Machine went missing while it continues to operate. I presume it has uploaded itself into the cloud, or has moved and hid its servers somewhere else.

Only the pilot has aired so far, so who the hell knows? I thought the pilot was way more entertaining than it had any right to be because it was so batshit-insane, much more so than even, say, American Horror Story. I was really surprised, because I don't usually like anything verging on camp or so-called "so bad it's…

OK, sure, there are the voluntary swapping possibilities — if Probst offers, in every episode, for family members to switch places with the ones on Redemption Island, then that IS interesting. It also means the people on RI have a realistic shot at getting back in the game — through a swap, since coming back in…

As soon as Probst said, "Redemption Island is in play this season," my reaction was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

LIKE.

Loads of people here will tell you that DS9 is brilliant. But beware, season 1 is mostly pretty lousy (as is the case with many other shows), as is most of the first half of S2. Not as lousy as season 1 of Star Trek: TNG, but arguably not as good as season 1 of Buffy, although IMO season 1 of Buffy is underrated and…

You can skip most of season 1 and big chunks of season 2, making it less daunting. I'd say just watch "Emissary," "Past Prologue," "Battle Lines," "Duet," and "In the Hands of the Prophets" from S1 and "Necessary Evil," "Whispers," and the last six or seven episodes of S2. And that's just if you want the highlights in…

@avclub-0d4efaa2c9d1041eb9b8b5319eec8531:disqus Re: "…yet another witch-burning narrative in which the burnee was guilty and thus 'deserved' it, which always strikes me as fucked up" — yeah, I know what you mean, but at least this time the witch was not evil. So they're not suggesting she deserved it in this case,…

Discovery Fitness & Health still exists?! Seriously?!

@Scrawler2:disqus I don't think it varies from company to company. "On Demand" is a company (thus the capitalization) and manages the episodes the same way for all cable and satellite services that it's available on. But I could be wrong. I'll check the On Demand version of this episode on Verizon FiOS and see if I…

I watched on BBC America and didn't see Hardy smashing up anything either. I'm guessing BBC America cut this so they could fit in more commercials.

They'd better give Patton Oswalt some royalties for using the name "Uncle Touchy!"

That's what I thought too, but I wasn't sure. They never spelled that out. I was expecting them to reveal that Gemma had something on the attorney. I definitely agree that she seemed pained when she called Jax. To my eyes, the show implied she was being forced to do that. But this show usually spells things out…

Not long ago they had Alphas, which grew into something excellent and deserved a lot of critical acclaim. Unlike BSG, it just didn't get noticed, and was canned.