Good call on "The Kingmaker"! I loved that one.

Actually the tone of it quite reminds me of things like Season 17's "Nightmare of Eden" or Season 24's "Paradise Towers."

I have to say Philip Sandifer's analysis of "Gridlock" is spot-on. I'd love to know some AV Clubbers' opinions on what he has to say.

Odd that both of Harmon's joints this week had Zardoz references. I guess somebody's been on Netflix.

I will agree, Meat should have hung up his guitar years ago & concentrated on his stage & screen careers.

It's SUPPOSED to be false nostalgia, duh. That's the whole point of it, to deflate the nostalgia. It's like, if Grease had an unhappy ending instead. It's like he's never heard of irony.

It's worth noting that actress Nicola Bryant specifically requested that Peri be written out of the series with a dramatic death scene, so you might be taking Saward, JNT and Philip Martin to task a bit severely for supposedly abusing her character this way.

This show has turned into World War Zzzzzzz.

It's so amazing to see Rod Steiger in that "The Loved One" clip. Just the night before last I was watching him in "In The Heat of the Night." What a versatile guy.

While we're on the subject of evangelist / shyster movies, anybody remember the Tim Curry vehicle "Pass The Ammo," where he plays an oily televangelist who gets taken hostage on-air by some rednecks he'd fleeced? It was a pretty enjoyable movie as I recall.

This movie also had a very enjoyable soundtrack album (sadly out of print). Highlights were an absolutely smokin' Patti LaBelle gospel rave-up called "Ready for a Miracle," a Don Henley cover of "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" and Meat Loaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" which got a new video and charted…

Neat!

"When Somebody Loved Me" … I cried and cried.

Before I noticed the scissors, I thought he was grabbing desperately for the lint roller.

I wonder if RTD was thinking of that when he wrote Davros' speech in "Journey's End"? LOL

Yeah they've been driving for 3 hours, so in TV time it'll take them about half an episode to get back there. At which point Glenn will see that none of the corpses are Maggie, and everyone will be SO relieved they went to all that trouble and peril for his peace of mind. THEN, of course, they'll end up at Terminus.…

Great, more woods to tromp through.

I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not.

But it SO is. You know the L&N is so hot with the kids now. And I hear Kanye namechecks CSX on his new single.

But if they are smart they might know better than to randomly shoot machine guns they don't know how to handle. AT THEIR TRUCKS.