Much of what you write reminds me of the old critical consensus on the movies of the Coen Brothers, i.e. they were "cold" and their stories were "pointless," albeit well-presented, well-written, well-acted, well-photographed. I do think with time and rewatching, this consensus has eroded in re: the Coens. As for the…

This was an iffy season and the episode had much about it that was improbable. However, it was still compelling, and its vision of how online propaganda is done should become part of the pop culture vocabulary. Quinn was mostly great this year playing a damaged warrior, and I thought Saul & Dar both had fine seasons.…

Maybe he Ubered it.

Ugh. "Lost."

No, in those days the theme songs were often the best thing about TV series. Cheers was unusual in being genuinely good.

Yup. In the prior episode, William made it clear his conscience couldn't take it if the biological substance ever got out. He was Jesus for a day.

In the third-season episode "Born Again," this happens (according to Entertainment Weekly):

From the 2016 perspective, the kids' plot makes so much more sense. The moment when Paige does what she does to get them away from the creeper — what does that tell us about her fitness for… (SPOILER).

I am loving the actress who plays Paige. Remember how dreadful the "Homeland" young actress was? Paige is the opposite. She is great at this. She is as good as Don's daughter in Mad Men, maybe better.

Yup. Paige's evolution into joining her parents' trade is well underway. She is a good spy. The pivot will arrive at the moment when she tells her parents it's okay if they want to kill Pastor Tim and Alice so she doesn't have to move to Russia.

Not a very reliable way to get that thing done. But it would make sense, character-wise. Gaad must have known something about what the Russians were going to be able to use on him — that he was already compromised. We'll find out.

It was explicitly stated last night.

As with "The Sopranos," it's good to keep in mind that the protagonists understand what they are doing as a form of war. In which all's fair. That, to me, is the central mystery of this plotline. Is Philip acting the way he is acting because he disagrees that he is at war, and believes his relationship with Martha is…

Exactly. The role of "Girls" in today's pop culture, the persona of Lena Dunham, sets people like me up to absolutely hate this show. So it is further testament to Dunham's brilliance and the brilliance of her team that the show is so good, it overcomes all those bothersome associations and delivers incredibly fresh…

What a cheap shot. Hope this isn't how you spend your days.

Without cultural appropriation, there is no culture. Culture dies. It's perhaps the stupidest new idea out there — that humans should, out of some faux notions of "respect," suppress the natural instinct to imitate and to synthesize new (to them) ideas or new cultural content like music or design. This idea is heading…

No, it's just of a piece with the general awfulness of this article, which is entirely comprised of this piss-poor writer substituting the kind of song and video they would have preferred to what was actually produced, and then, as is typical of the shame-and-blame mindset, claiming that the artists' failure to follow…

Sad that your snark button is broken in the "on" position. This is a great show, and you're missing it.

Catch up on "The Americans." Good as all those other FX shows are, "The Americans" is even better.

According to Vulture, she had four wigs. So there are at least two more hairstyles ahead.