I watched a lot of season 2 late at night while really tired and couldn't follow what was going on half the time. I've enjoyed season 3 a lot more because I try to always watch the episodes while fully awake, and sometimes I save them up and binge-watch them (hence the very late reply). I agree the spy stuff is less…

AHHHH! "…neither person could make the first move" — I'm worried this issue is going to derail the possibility of a relationship with someone I just started seeing (just posted upthread about it). We're both too chicken, I suspect, to just go ahead and start making out or anything. I'm glad you went far afield from…

I feel stupid. I've gone out on a couple of dates with a really cute intellectual girl and things seemed to be going pretty well, but I was too nervous and shy to kiss her. Actually are men supposed to ask first these days, or do we still just dive right in and go for it? I think she's too shy to go for it too, but…

iZombie is doing pretty well by current CW standards. I mean, if you can consistent score an 0.6 or more in adults 18-49 on the CW these days, that's a hit by their low bar, about the same as basic cable. (People wonder how the CW can operate with such low numbers, but keep in mind that the CW has a lucrative Netflix…

I know you're probably joking, but when other countries do their own versions of Survivor, they always film them somewhere hot and bathing-suit-worthy. There was a confusingly-titled Israeli version called… uh… "Celebrity Survivor Israel: Thailand" (?) or something like that. But to answer the original question by…

The first 3 seasons are coming to Netflix this fall, if I understand correctly. I missed most of season 1 so that'll be cool. (I saw the pilot, liked it but didn't keep up with it, and then was startled to find that the next-to-last episode and season finale of season 1 hinted towards much more interesting directions…

Because Comedy Central, that's why.

Hmm, that's concerning. I'm only up to the eighth episode, and I feel like seven and eight are not as good as the first six.

Thanks, but eh, I've seen that ridiculous vague "definition" before. That's not useful for broadcasters. I'd say their definition of "obscene" as "(1) an average person, applying contemporary community standards, must find that the material, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest (i.e., material having a…

That made me laugh too. Most of us Americans have a very warped concept of British TV based on what little gets imported. Our sickly, anemic version of the BBC, PBS, is so starved by Congress for funding that it probably gets about half a cent per head in the U.S. per year. So it can't produce much original…

Actually, "safe harbor" isn't really a solid thing. It's all very, very blurry. The FCC merely says that you can air things that are "indecent" but not things that are "obscene" after 10 p.m.

Liked for "Tier Tyler." Yes. That.

I can only assume that Ciara (sp?) knows something about Survivor and knows that she doesn't want to go in front of a jury against a bunch of likeable people like Hali and/or Jenn and/or Joe at the end of the game. If she knows what's good for her, she wants idiots like Rodney and/or Dan and/or goofballs like Shirin…

NOT ENOUGH LIKES IN THE UNIVERSE FOR THIS

I thought S7 was mostly rushed, manic, sloppy, and poorly-written and edited, but S8 fixed most of these problems, and it mostly rocked. So you should look forward to that. If Moffat can keep that up, he can stay.

Fascinating. The way Alan Watts explains it, if you're the Absolute and you have all possible personality traits (and thus none), then you're going to get pretty bored and lonely, so you have to split yourself up into different pieces and forget who you are so that you can have friends and adventures and a…

I'm not sure I'm any closer to giving a shit about these characters, most of whom are awful human beings or otherwise just not very sympathetic, but I'll keep watching. And wow, the Keys are *beautiful.* And that's coming from someone who *hates* Florida.

On a different note: For more excellent muckraking, see the recent New Yorker article on the Albuquerque PD:
http://www.newyorker.com/ma…

Clearly you haven't been watching The Fall or Hannibal. Anderson has cut
some kind of deal with some kind of elder gods or something — that's
the only way I can figure that she has been aging in reverse. She's way
hotter than she was on The X-Files.

Happy Valley is excellent. It's not especially original or anything, but it's extremely suspenseful and well-made.