Anna seems to be the ringleader over there in the beauty tribe. Did she admit she was a poker player to the other players? I wonder if she tried to pass herself off as something more innocuous so she wouldn't seem like a schemer. (She's definitely holding a pair! Ha ha… sorry.)

There are also those of us who, unlike Mr. Coogin, enjoy intercourse very much and like thinking about it too, but don't usually enjoy watching it. There are many reasons why we may not be into looking at it, and just one of them is that so many porn actors seem so bored with what they're doing. Their eyes often glaze…

Upvoted for obscure Doctor Who reference!

I was never very fond of Samantha Bee when she was a Daily Show correspondent, but this is the second good review I've read of this premiere, and the "sentient caps lock" line is really good. Maybe I'll consider watching this. But as far as female TDS correspondents go, couldn't Beth Littleford have had her own show…

I'm pretty sure most of us A.V. Club weirdos stopped saying "YOU MAD?" back in 2006. Do you also call people "brah" and ask your co-workers "working hard or hardly working?"

February dumping ground, meaningless? That's not true at all. What makes you think that? What are you, on crack?

I also hated The Man Who Wasn't There. More like The Movie That Wasn't There, amirite?!? There's hardly anything to it, just a protagonist who does what it says on the tin — nothing at all — and a bunch of people railroading him. "Arch and chilly" doesn't even begin to cover it. If it has a point, it's belaboring it…

Stop listening to evil robot radio, Joshua Alston! Try some radio curated by actual living breathing human beings. There's WFMU. That can be pretty weird sometimes so there's Altrok Radio if you tastes run a little more conservative and you want to hear a lot of new indie rock and such. There's SomaFM's Bagel Radio if…

Isn't he the exec producer? And sometimes "producer" just means "that powerful figure who can get things a greenlight". He's somehow got Fox/FX eating out of his hand these days. A producer doesn't have to write, though Murphy often does (unfortunately for anyone who happens to suffer through the results). But I guess…

Loyalty to your family and the fucking government? Jesus, I knew the Chinese government was bad, but that's really nuts. I've read a lot about China but wrapping my head around the idea that millions of people are conformist enough to buy into this shit is still really difficult.

I watched the first four episodes via illicit means. The first episode was really intriguing, the production values are nice, and the show looks great. But as the episodes progressed, it lost urgency, which is probably why I never got around to watching beyond the fourth one, though I keep saying I'm going to do it.…

Episode one, at least, reportedly did extremely well for Sky 1 in the UK, but it's hard to figure out what may have happened to the ratings beyond that episode. And even the article I found about episode one's ratings is mostly behind a paywall:
http://www.broadcastnow.co….

Make me.

Ugh, this again. Hey buddy, I like well-made lemon meringue pie. Most of the time it's terrible. It's hard to make it right. 39 out of 40 of the lemon meringue pies I've tried have been terrible. The texture is wrong, or the lemon tastes like Lemon Pledge, or the crust is mushy. But guess what? I'm going to keep…

No, no, Jordo is targeting me and my ilk. Not that I ever actually said that every episode Chris Carter wrote was terrible. Just most of them. And especially the mythology episodes. "Triangle" is fun, if a bit overrated and light on actual incident. It LOOKS amazing.

"Other’s People’s Money"?! Damn it, GET A COPYEDITOR!

Um, so that Anderson and Duchovny could mostly have the week off? What other reason did that episode need to exist? Oh, and also parts of it were pretty funny.

Hurrah!!!!

I like the MOTWs. And as you can probably tell, I enjoy criticizing shows with failing mythology and a total lack of preparation or a series bible of any kind. The X-Files was an iconic precursor to other shows with flopping, nonsensical mythology, mainly Lost and BSG, though neither is as terrible.

For some reason I was always willing to overlook that bit. I always figured "the government" is, in reality, just a collection of competing factions with different agendas, and I presume some parts of THE GOVERNMENT can hire some people that other parts would hate and want to kill. But now that you mention it, the…