The problem with this is that they don't seem to want to go to any new locations. Aren't they going back to Fiji next year for both seasons? Going to a place they already know probably means a lower budget because they know what to expect and what to prepare for. Fewer surprises.

The ads for this show in the NYC subway feature some of the absolute worst graphic design I've ever seen in my life. The tagline is something like "possession is just the beginning" but the image conveys nothing about that whatsoever. If anything is about to possess Patrick Fugit in the image on the posters, it's… a…

It's a game show. Who doesn't like game shows? What are you, some kind of monster?

Ugh, when they showed the (terrible) trailer for this during last night's (terrible) Survivor finale reunion, I retched a little. I hate how they push these stupid themes for each season. But after the first couple of episodes, there will probably be a random tribe shuffle and they'll forget all about this bullshit…

I suspect they were hiding it but still felt it. Why hide it? Because it's deeply uncool these days in the world of Survivor players, and looks bad on TV. Anti-nerd bias and pro-prom-queen bias probably played the biggest role here though, more so than bitterness.

Most recent juries have stopped being bitter and have rewarded the player who played the hardest and most ruthlessly. Often this is the person who voted them out. All of the reasons you gave (except Julia) make sense for an early-season jury but not for a more recent strategy-oriented jury. This was an ugly bitter…

Thinking about it further, I suspect not just anti-nerd bias but also flat-out attractiveness bias. Aubry is not a conventionally attractive woman. Michele is. Nick, Scot, and Jason don't understand or like nerds and voted for the pretty girl. We won't ever hear this explanation from them though, because it's not…

Anti-nerd bias was my best guess too. Aubry was compared directly to Cochran, who was treated like garbage in his first season by the other players for no particular reason I could see.

I thought about that when I was typing that comment, but Criminal Minds is dark in a way that I can't imagine a MacGyver reboot being. CM is not a critically-acclaimed darkness (e.g. Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Person of Interest, or even You're the Worst), it's a sleazy darkness. I can see them fucking up a MacGyver…

The original was so goody-goody that it could make your teeth hurt from the sweetness. Will this remake be "dark" and "gritty"? Oh no wait, this is CBS. Of course not.

Total viewer numbers are irrelevant to advertisers. They only care about adults 18-49. And if you're going to distinguish between superhero shows and non-superhero shows, then one could just argue that Agent Carter failed because it didn't have any superheroes. Wait, does that even help my argument? I'm getting…

Now I better understand the point you're trying to make, but I disagree with that point. Comic book shows aren't destined to perform any worse than anything else; the difference in ratings between The Flash and Agent Carter is very large, and Flash gets numbers that would be respectable on a major network, far above…

That doesn't make any sense. Again, this is like saying that… well, maybe not Rihanna, but say, the New Pornographers or Kurt Vile or even Tim Hecker should be happy selling the same number of records and MP3s as a Japanese noise band.

Really? You prefer procedurals? The show has just gotten better and better as it has progressed (except for some lulls in S4), if you're into sci-fi shows that intertwine story arcs with cases of the week, but it lost some standard CBS viewers who thought it would just be another regular-ish crime/action show and got…

I liked Agent Carter better than Arrow (except maybe S2 of Arrow) but its ratings were miserable by ABC standards whereas Arrow does very well by CW standards. You can't compare them against each other, that's like saying that new Japanese noise album you just heard about on WFMU should be selling as well as Rihanna's…

Oops, yeah, I completely forgot about the CW, where there is a whole roster of surprisingly good shows, though I can't help but feel that both Arrow and The Flash are a little overrated and, at best, very uneven. I barely think of it as a broadcast network anymore since its deal with Netflix means that all of its…

Well, let's see, Person of Interest is surprisingly good for a show on CBS and does interesting story arcs about artificial super-intelligences threatening humanity… no wait, they're cancelling that. Also, Agent Carter… nope, also cancelled. The Good Wife is supposed to be great… wait, no, that's over. Hmm. Yeah,…

Ah, but she didn't say it was a favorable outcome. Just an outcome.

If you like that sort of thing, MBV's best is probably "Loveless". If you want an often-exceptionally weird radio station run by odd and interesting human volunteers, try WFMU (wfmu.org). For a more standard but very good indie rock/indie pop type station with actual humans, google Altrok Radio. Another like that is…

Wait, there's another person here who still listens to real radio run by actual live humans?! Get out!