THANK YOU. Almost as frustrating as watching The Americans this season has been reading the fawning comments in the AV Club every week. Last year, I was grabbing anyone who would listen to me to tell them to watch the show. This year, I have fallen asleep while watching multiple episodes. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys…

I started high school in 1985; Esprit was one of the most popular brands at my school. I remember looking at their print ad campaigns in Seventeen with my girlfriends. I was close to Paige's age in the 80s and she's worn many things that I remember wearing back then. This show doesn't go full period like Mad Men but…

I live in DC and this show looks nothing like DC. It was weird to hear the dialogue about Columbia Pike because it reminded me how much this show doesn't look like where it's supposed to be set. The only show that is worse at faking the city is Homeland. House of Cards looks most like the real DC, ironic since it's…

Ugh. The final episode contained everything that made the show so terrible in the last two seasons: embarrassingly lazy writing that assumed the audience had much more of an emotional investment in the characters than they actually did. For two seasons, Alicia got progressively more unlikable, yet the writers…

No. Seasons 3 and 4 in particular regularly went full-on gore. And c'mon…this is the show that did "Home."

A B? This episode was terrible. I spent all of last season watching Alicia become more and more unlikable and waiting for her late-season sweeps month realization of how awful she had become. Not only did it not happen, she's continued on the same path in the season premiere, leading me to the conclusion that we're…

Are you sure you've been watching Justified? It has been KILLING it this season. The dialogue alone is enough to put it in first place for me.

Matthew Rhys is indeed great, but I think Keri Russell has also done phenomenal work this season. Philip has always been somewhat conflicted about his spy duties, but season 3 is the first time that Elizabeth has had her previously unshakeable belief in "the cause" be challenged. i think Keri Russell has done a great…

I think this review was spot on. I recently started watching this show and binge watched the first five seasons last fall. I couldn't believe that a network TV show could be so good. But this run of episodes after the long break has me questioning myself (my toddler wasn't sleeping much then - maybe my good opinion…

Yes, I have felt all along that the show has been making Alicia less and less likable in order to build to the big moment where she has to face up to what kind of person she has become. The problem is the slow, meandering path the show is taking to get there. As others have noted, the election and Bishop plotlines…

Yeah, I live in DC and this show does not look like the area at all. Homeland is similarly awful in that respect. One of the things I like about House of Cards is that it actually looks "realistic" because they shoot in the area.

C'mon, Waitlist Wes is a much worse actor than Laurel. His "I'm worried" face while the kids where waiting to hear the outcome of Annalise's interview re: the ring was literally laughable.

An episode of Scandal without Bellamy Young cannot be called essential.

Victor Garber and Lena Olin in the second season are what made she show great. And Jennifer Garner's wigs.

I know this thread is three years old and no one will read this, BUT, when my husband and I bought our house, the basement had markings of kids' heights from the family that lived here in the 50s. Not only did we not paint over it, we painted everything else in the basement except the area with the markings because we…

"At its heart, Scandal is an undeniably feminist show." Except for when it's not a feminist show, which is every time Fitz and Olivia have a scene together and he grabs her, threatens her, kidnaps her, tells her he's going to make her beg or otherwise uses his status as the most powerful man in the world to act out…

Anita was released in theaters earlier this year.

Yes! And in the yoga studio episode of Homeland when Carrie tells Virgil that she has to get to Bethesda and back in 15 minutes. And I was thinking, sweetheart, even if you were already IN Bethesda you wouldn't be able to get there and back in 15 minutes.

No, the most unrealistic part was when Carrie said she had 15 min to get to and from Bethesda. Impossible in the DC area unless she was literally one foot outside the Bethesda city limits. The way characters get all the way across VA, DC and MD in this show cracks me up.

The House office buildings are not able to have as tight of security because the offices are open to the public (meaning that you are free to drop by and visit your congressperson whenever). But there are metal detectors and the idea of someone getting past them with a bomb is fairly ludicrous. But hey, it's TV.