Fuck WGN, POI is also going to be on Netflix this fall! No need for WGN! It and Tribune can go die on the scrap heap of cable history soon enough! (I'm still bitter than Tribune cancelled Legend of the Seeker and had a rumored hand in the destruction of Farscape back circa 2003. TV nerds hold long grudges, ha ha.)

I feel so bad for poor old Michigan! They just can't catch a break with any of the shows filmed there. I can't remember, has ANY show filmed in MI made it to a second season?

Interesting how things have changed. Critical acclaim USED to (usually) mean little or nothing. TVBTN is just not keeping up with the times. (But then, it's right there in the name of their site: TV by the *Numbers*. The site does what it says on the tin! Ha ha.)

Given all your complaining, your examples are really strange — I would have pegged you as an incensed fan of one-season-and-done shows like Terriers or Firefly instead, not shows that lasted SEVEN SEASONS (which is like 70-80 years old in the dog years of TV show lifespans). I adored both 30 Rock and Parks & Rec, and…

The advertisers want demographic info. They live and breathe demo data. They're obsessed. They do NOT want to just know how many TV sets are tuned to which program, without being able to tell if it's an 80-year-old man or a 24-year-old woman (or a group of asexual talking rocks from Mars) watching that smart TV. Or an…

Believe it or not, yeah, Tarantino's two-hour CSI special is pretty good. This is from someone with had little interest in CSI at the time it aired. It was obviously far better than the average CSI episode, and well-directed and suspenseful.

If that were the case, I'd imagine they'd save CSI to use as a bridge show in mid-season perhaps? Maybe split POI's season ABC-style and air the final episodes of CSI as the bridge? And CSI: Cyber could be held back as a mid-season emergency show in case everything else flops. Or if everything succeeds (ha ha ha, yeah…

I also gave up on S2 part of the way through when it was on the air. I recently finished it on Amazon Prime streaming. I think it really picks up towards the end, and is worth watching, despite some missteps. It's better streaming than watching live, for sure. YMMV.

Your comparison of Buffy to Lost is invalid. Each season of Buffy has its own major villain and its own story arc. Other than S2, each season ends with the resolution of most pressing issues. You can just stop watching the show after S3 or S4 or S5 if you want, and not feel like you are really missing anything…

A lot of the stand-alone episodes are great, but it's like the proto-Lost with its nonsensical story arcs that go absolutely nowhere. Actually, the X-Files was worse with that. Much worse. Only the final season of Lost was really disappointing. With the X-Files, you can tell the mythology is a boatload of nonsensical…

I'm in the extreme minority here, but I don't think you're missing anything. Unless you really love comedies about awful, neurotic, whiny, douchey slimeballs.

We seem to have a lot of tastes in common based the hundreds of your TV-related comments I've read, so let me tell you something important: You are not missing anything. At. ALL. Of course IMHO, YMMV, but Supernatural is one of the most overrated shows in existence as far as I can determine. And if you didn't even…

I've only seen the first two episodes of Red Road and they just didn't do it for me. I wanted to like it. There are some good actors, good themes, interesting ideas, etc. there, but none of it comes together in the first two installments (which are also a bit slow) and I didn't find many of the characters likeable,…

@Josh Modell — season 1 of Buffy isn't THAT bad. Nowhere near as bad as the first season of B5 or DS9. It's often very charming. And it's only 12 episodes anyway.

OK, hmm, now that sounds a bit less far-out.

So you're assuming Kinka Usher is a pseudonym, eh? Not for Tim Burton. Tim Burton has a lot of sins to answer for, but he's a much more competent director than THIS. The direction here is a steaming pile of armadillo boogers.

I like that Louis C.K. is subtly sending up this concept that there was once a utopia here, with his quick "oh but down in Mexico they were cutting off kids' heads, but you know, whatever"-ish bit tacked onto the end. Anybody who is not seeing that really lacks the capacity to comprehend farcical subtlety.…

It's a strange world when the CW has renewed so many things that it doesn't have much room on its schedule for new shows. I can barely figure where Crazy Ex-Girlfriend would even go. It sounds so risky, I'd bet on just a six- or eight-episode order if CBS Studios will let them do that. Just off the top of my head, I…

That wasn't "pitch-perfect" IMHO, it was WAAAAAAAAAAY too on-the-nose. INSANELY on-the-nose. I'm embarrassed for them. I rolled my eyes in the middle of a crucial moment on POI and that makes me sad. :(

The procedural aspect of the show probably demands such an approach — a sort of soft reset-button push — but a more interesting idea, if CBS would let the writers get away with it, might be for Finch and Root to find some way to spy on Samaritan's operations and gain some kind of backdoor access to its surveillance,…