Louie. One hundred percent Louie. I get that it was really short and a step down from what he accomplished in season four, but not even top forty? C'mon.

"Routine" by Steven Wilson here. Or "Ancestral" off the same album. But I think the incredible music video gives "Routine" the edge here. The album had a few misses but those two are brilliant tracks.

I thought the premise and title song were very funny, but after that I was pretty much bored out of my mind through three episodes and then stopped.

That Chiklis win was like 14 years ago and a complete oddity for that show, in the first and arguably weakest season. After that it got fuck-all for nominations, outside of one for Close. Chiklis's consistently outstanding work throughout the series was never recognized again, and Walton Goggins never getting even a…

Amazon Prime's got a deal with FX for it. Justified, too.

I'd say it's between them and The Leftovers for number one, just judging by reaction. I do like to think that the overlooked nature of The Americans increases its shot of getting a number one, though there's a few different shows you can't go wrong with this year.

Exactly. It's the whole scene, in its gut-wrenching silence, and at the end where it normally cuts to commercial, the "Executive Producer Shawn Ryan" comes up. Yeah, as somebody who only watched the show a year and a half ago and know how many others haven't, I try and keep from spoiling it when possible because…

I've watched the split version out of curiosity, and outside of the episode's crux making for one hell of a chilling cliffhanger/cut to credits, yeah, it all feels wrong.

I'm inclined to agree with this. It reminds me of The Shield's finale, which was an extended run-time episode in the States but got butchered into a two-episode finale in other markets and on streaming today. The peak of the episode's tragedy came over midway through the episode, and then there was another half-hour…

Dorothy said Edgar is always saying his and Jimmy's friendship needs to change, and Edgar sarcastically quips back something along the lines of "Well I'm also always saying I didn't know it was a school".

I'd actually say I'm kinda in the same boat. After the preceding seasons of Fargo, The Americans, Louie, and Archer, I was very high on FX and in the mood to give their new series a shot even if the ads were awful (for Married, and especially for Worst). There was something about that ad that grabbed me visually, and…

Yeah, The Americans this year was so damn great that I'd feel dirty putting anything above it on my hour drama list this year—though Fargo is making it very, very difficult. It's always a bummer to see people discussing all the great TV this year and it getting left out of the discussion.

I don't have any experience with clinical depression (though I do have a bit with other mental illnesses), but it's number one on my half-hour list as well, beating out Silicon Valley. The show revealed a hell of a heart in the second half of season one and I'm glad they went so far down that rabbit hole this time…

I'm not a cryer. I can be a complete baby in a lot of ways, but it almost never manifests itself as tears. As sweet and sad as the season has been at times, as many incredible gut-punches as they've thrown, I don't think it's ever gotten me there. But man, oh man, when Gretchen said "It's okay, I love you too"? It all…

Give me FX and I'll never need anything else.

I haven't listened to enough music this year to argue about it, but I'm going to leave a comment here to represent the tragically absent-from-the-entire-thread Faith No More. Also really dug Steven Wilson and Death Grips' records, and Queen Kwong had a pretty great little debut. In the realm of poppier stuff, I…

Well that's fair. And that was to wrap up a minor plot midway through the season and this is in the big climactic sequence.

I mean, I get it, it's fucking insane, but is it really any more far-fetched than fish falling from the sky?

I'm actually rewatching Justified as a friend goes through the first time and I still love Rappaport with a Florida hick accent. The guy sounds so much like real dumbasses I see all the time I can't help but crack up when he speaks.

I just started getting into Siouxsie and the Banshees this past month and it's amazing. I love finding older stuff that sits outside of my ever-expanding "zone" that immediately resonates without any growing pains.