True, all amazing comedies, but (unfortunately) not well-represented in other countries. Here in the UK, we get Brooklyn Nine Nine on a digital/cable channel, and to my knowledge none of the others you mentioned ever made it over here. Whereas BBT, Friends and Seinfeld all did. The latter two were on our terrestrial…

Haha, that's because you have to be from here to be able to do it! :) To paraphrase Community, "We earn the right to pick on the UK by living here every day. This country may be a toilet, but it's our toilet. Nobody craps in it but us."

Wow, 20 years. I used to hide in my cupboard pretending to be Harriet and writing stuff about all my classmates in my very own spy notebook when I was little… Wow, 20 years!

Well, the show was meant to end after Season 5, so I don't blame them. She was meant to be the series-ending arc, then suddenly they were on a new station and had to create new arcs for Buffy and the gang, and somehow include this random teenager.

I love various US sitcoms and UK sitcoms (mostly those from the UK, as I am English), and there is an element of optimism vs. pessimism, but it goes deeper than that.

So true. When I was about 12 (so around 2001/2002) and living in Saudi Arabia, I got so into The Nanny, Family Ties and Married With Children. I knew they were old and out of date, but they were the only shows on TV in English.

Did you miss when she wrote a letter, but we didn't see what she wrote or who it was to? I think it was in Episode 7? It was definitely after she told Littlefinger to bugger off in Molestown.

I totally agree with this. They gamed him, for sure. That brief "we've got to trust each other" bit from next week's preview is probably part of the fall out from this.

Three, if Varys returns. Dany really is accumulating the castrated males, isn't she? I wonder if the writers are trying to make some kind of comment there…

Whoooaaaa. Anyone ever see that terrible Renee Zellweger/Harry Connick Jr vehicle New in Town? Compare JK Simmons seven or eight years ago to JK now. WOW.

I always wondered that about Hagrid in Harry Potter - his dad was human and his mum a giantess. She must have been thoroughly underwhelmed. And considering the temperament of the giants in the Harry Potter books, how she ever remained still long enough for a human to seduce and have sex with her is beyond me.

Wait, ew, really? I didn't see Spectre, but I seem to remember reading around the time that Bond romances Monica Bellucci, and that all the journos were very happy and/or outraged about the fact that he gets together with a woman of a similar age to him. Does that not happen? He actually ends up with the woman nearly…

They're still linking AoS and the MCU movies? That Easter egg is referenced in Civil War… Anyway, the real tragedy is that we'll never solve the mystery of her husband (although I suppose we're meant to assume it was Sousa), nor see any of Howard's transformation from womanising Dominic Cooper to settled John Slattery.

Haha that's an easy one - the writers don't believe that there are women out there who have geeky interests. So why would they write realistic girlfriends for these characters, who share their interests, when they don't understand that such women exist?

Agreed. I was rooting for Sheldon the whole time. The worst time is when people queue-jump (as we call it here in the UK) at a theme park. You spend two hours queueing for a ride, then someone comes barging past saying, "Excuse me, my friends are just up ahead." Not acceptable - if you wanted to ride with your…

My opinions about New Girl are always so wildly different to this reviewer's that it baffles me. I thought 'Dress' was hilarious, while 'Return to Sender' disappointed me at every turn. I thought it was going to be the cue for Sam's exit at last, but we're stuck with him, it seems. Goodness knows why. He and Jess are…

Apologies, I didn't explain myself well. I'm not denying that there are female characters called Bill, just saying that it isn't short for Belinda. As I recall, Bill in 2point4 children was short for Wilhemina.

Agreed. The Twilight films did nothing for anybody, not just her. Stewart is marvellous in the likes of Still Alice, Adventureland and On the Road. She doesn't seem to like being the focus of attention, such as in massive blockbusters, but in smaller indie films where she's working with an ensemble cast, she's fab.
But…

I've never heard that, in real life or on TV. All the Belindas I know are either known by their full name, or it's shortened to Bel, Linda, or in one memorable case, "Belly". (I'm from the UK, by the way!) I reckon she's Wilhemina but hates it, so goes by Bill.

Well, like I say, I'm assuming undercover until proven wrong, but two counterpoints to yours:
1) Kevin was not on a year's sabbatical - he was offered a six month fellowship at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne). He left in December, so six months is June. We don't know that the B99's timeline is 'real world' time,…