In the future, Frank Sinatra is more famous for killing JFK (mystery solved at last), so Vic Fontaine is actually more popular

I liked it OK. There's a very dark pay off to running into Gert's parents, and the Punisher gets punched in the gut, so there's good things in there.

I could have done without the Freudian psychology baloney.

If you watch enough UK shows, you start see just how well constructed a six or eight episode season can be. That includes even sitcoms, because there's less need to reset everything to "normal" at the end of every episode.

Network shows may be midyear replacements or Fall shows that start with half season orders, but that's not what I mean. FX, Netflix, Comedy Central, AMC etc. all order shows in seasons that are 8-13 episodes per season, and stay that way. IMHO, it makes the quality of the average episode higher, it's good, but it…

Which is still a carefully chosen metric. Given that many shows have only 8, 10 or 13 episodes in a season these days.

Incest wasn't gritty enough for you?

Incest wasn't gritty enough for you?

If Franco is playing Mitchell analogs, and they are central to the whole project, it seems weird to me to move it to NYC, but whatever.

So, is this inspired in part by the Mitchell Brothers (not twins, and in SF, not NYC, but very significant in '70s porn)?

He is a Cro-Magnon, who are considered to be the same species as us.

They prefer the term speleo-human now.

In fairness, "Fuck that shit, why do I have to figure out an ending to this fucking mess?!?" was in the latest batch of notes from GRRM.

They used to have a very good rep, but that was when they were cooking them in beef fat, and since then, the competition has gotten much better.

I thought Dirk was a bit too dickish in the series. I'm not sure how to solve that problem though, because the books could convey more of his interior life than a TV show can, and I think that's the principle reason he was more sympathetic in the books.

Nuclear man was fusion powered (the sun) Reactron is presumably fission powered. Totally different. :-)

Saget liked to make mildly inappropriate jokes,

In a weird way, this seems like Ghost Hunters meets Biggest Loser, Lot's of fake investigation that finds nothing interspersed with yelling at troubled people to make themselves better.

I hear that for the sequel, Guttenberg is going to actually tell some of his great stories in the associated AVClub interview.

Most practitioners of weed based library science agree the the Library of Bongress System is preferable.