Wait, is that for real? I thought he was joking. I skipped most of Enterprise because I wanted to avoid the theme song at all costs. Also, it wasn't very good.

But this is infinitely better because it does not have shamefully shitty child actors stinking up the joint.

I have to agree that the kiss was random, weird, and out of nowhere. Reese and Carter's chemistry was all wrong for that.

Yeah, I don't get the impression these reviews get a lot of pageviews. Most people like us don't realize how awesome this show is, writing it off because it's on CBS, which, y'know, can't really blame them that much. If it were on FX, I imagine it would skew a LOT younger and get more AV Club types watching it. People…

Liked for giving me some ammunition against all the crazed, frothing EW commenters who believe (for no reason) that the producers threw TPH off the show without her consent.

Actually that *would* be pretty expensive, wouldn't it? And I'm being nitpicky, but isn't Daredevil going to be on his own Marvel Netflix show? So they can't use him. The real problem is just that the scripts are bland and unadventurous, and lack "spice" as Alien Jesus put it. Adding superheroes and well-known Marvel…

Normally I would agree but I read that Fox is treating this as a "limited series." That seems to be coming into style these days (The Following at 15 episodes is one example, although Kevin Bacon forced that, and Sleepy Hollow is only 13). But now I can't find a reference to the specific number. There's a NY Daily…

I don't believe Wikipedia is correct on that one. They are more like 46-50 min. long. And yes, BBC America cut several scenes including the one where Hardy smashes up a bunch of stuff in his office (or something like that — I can only surmise what happened based on what I've read in comments here, since I never got to…

I don't think Fox has that mindset at all. They were openly trying to pull in a big lead-in audience from the (apparently hugely important) Sunday afternoon NFL playoff game. (That was a playoff right? I'm a nerd and hate sports.) They were probably hoping that the NBC game would turn out to suck or something.

If this was episode 5, and if it's all stand-alone episodes, then I can sort of understand why Fox did it. Especially if episodes 2-4 turn out to be kind of lackluster, or clumsy and awkward. As evidenced by the reactions to SHIELD, when a show is taking time to gel, a lot of viewers, even if they're not just casual…

What about Justified? Are you pointing that out because it's a counter-example? A show that is sadly filmed in L.A. but has an excellent cast nonetheless? I love the show, but the locations never look right to me. I recognize a lot of the locations from all the other TV shows filmed around southern CA that I've…

I'm possibly descending into a crazy tangent, but Italian-Americans weren't always considered white. They are today, though.
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Ha ha, indeed. See also Ice King.

I think Insect Overlord definitely has the right idea. The grades are NOT for angsty commenters who already hold definitive opinions about the episodes. The grades are for people who have not seen the episodes before and want to know which episodes they can skip if they're in a hurry to get caught up. Never mind the…

Yes, I agree. Unless he contributed in some fashion to this redesign or encouraged it of his own free will. In which case, TAR AND FEATHER HIM!

I liked this better than VerDerWerff did. True, Karl Urban's character is incredibly bland so far, but it's only the pilot. Also, I really liked the reasonably complex plot. TV writers often aren't very strong on plot anymore. This one had some twists. (OTOH, I often miss gigantic plot holes and such, so maybe I'm not…

"There was once a SF TV writer who insisted his show would have no child leads, and when he had children as guest stars he liked killing then off."

I eventually became a fan of Fringe, especially in S2 and S3, but I *despised* the pilot and early episodes because they seemed to be aping the X-Files style of introducing a bunch of stuff that never gets resolved, just stringing people along conspiracy-theory-style with no answers. "The Pattern" and all the villains…

Oh, you mean this?

There are not enough likes in the universe for this comment. Arsenio, I anoint you a commenting God among men. I'll be over in a corner building a nice shrine for you. It might be made of old hot dogs and dust bunnies though.