I think there was a scene in the pilot where he was talking to Bird in WifeWorld, who had been reassigned?

Nor any mention of Jesse Thorn/Maximum Fun, unless that's some conflict of interest thing? I mean, the MaxFun Drive is ongoing as I write this, and I think I remember hearing him say it brings in six figures.

As Southland Tales taught us, pimps don't commit suicide. So I can't see the Samuel L. Jackson Nick Fury sitting in front of any giant gun contraptions.

Her without glasses thinking the bag of ice was Hope and then dropping it was what got me. Especially how willing they were to play her absolute horror without cutting away. I'm glad they veered away from the actual baby endangerment "humor" of early season one, but evidently I'm all in favor of fake baby endangerment.

It turns out I am a sucker for anything in which The Guardian is cast as the hero.

I was totally unprepared to enjoy this as much as I did, and now I find myself in the unenviable position of hoping it gets a second season even though it's probably the longest-imaginable-shot. Todd, your review works really well just as an essay in defense of entertaining but not super laugh-y sitcoms, which is a…

Sorry, didn't mean to put you on blast like that. I'd even spot you, say, Treme, Fringe, and Parenthood to get your 15. Personally I would replace Spartacus with Switched at Birth, too. That's right, I think ABC Family's Switched at Birth is better than The Walking Dead. At any rate, your's is a solid list and I'm…

Though I agree with you, 15 non-comedies sounds like a lot. Is that only currently-airing shows, or just shows that exist in 2011/2012?

I'm sympathetic to the Fringe comparison because I remember how rewarding it felt when that started to get good, but my take on it is that even when Fringe was mediocre, it was a mediocre in a zany Fox sci-fi show way (ala The X-Files et al). To me, Persons of Interest is mediocre, but mediocre in a CBS procedural…

I dislike in things like this when you see someone being really creepy, and you can't tell if the movie knows they're being creepy and it's foreshadowing, or if they just botched the tone. The uncle perving on her early in the movie is an example of that, although combined with the quickly-shoved-into-pockets…

Is Alcatraz two hours because it was supposed to be on last week and got scotched for that automobile race?

The Shadow Line is really good. "Gatehouse", etc.

The comparison I had in mind was this being the sitcom version of the Alias episode "Phase One".

Every time I think the "bleeped profanity" thing is played-out, there will be something like Ava's "or should I go ahead and fuck myself?" that destroys me.

Luz aka Rick "Endless Mike" Gomez has shown up as the Assistant U.S. Attorney in the past.

Not to mention how early they were on the trend of using "douchebag" during prime time.

This was an excellent piece. I always feel bad that I tend to read only the VSE entries about shows I liked or watched, because when I read them I'm always so impressed and every time I feel like I realize anew that they would be worth looking at even if I don't know the show, but by the time a new one rolls around I…

Features like For Our Consideration seem to have pretty much become what the blog used to be, so I don't really miss it. And I don't blame them for wanting to actually highlight the things they've written on the real site instead of a presumably less-read blog.

Oh man, I don't know if this is the first thing Mr. Kenny has written here, or just the first one I've noticed, but between him contributing and the Jesse Thorn alliance, I am a big fan of this branching out.

I'm not much of a commenter here, and I know that's a large part of how TV Club coverage is awarded, but I would be really excited if this got the weekly treatment.