T-MINUS ONE WEEK TO STANNISTIME

Once when I was flipping through channels, I happened to catch the beginning of an episode of the Emperor's New School, a spin-off TV series that used to air on the Disney Channel. The theme song was so ridiculously catchy that I ended up watching the rest of the episode…it was the most bizarre, meta, and clever…

Not even the promise of Kid Loki could cause me to summon much enthusiasm for the Gillen run. I still feel like I should read it and I've heard it's enjoyable, but Eli was my favorite and I was really disappointed when I learned he wouldn't be returning.

I felt the same way as you at first, but after checking the stream throughout the day and putting in some commands, I started getting hooked and was able to watch more than a minute at a time. Sure, most of the stream just involved the player character walking around in a circle and opening up the start menu, but I…

Mozart in the Jungle was truly awful, but who am I kidding? I'll put up with actors who are completely inept at pretending to play stringed instruments (the bowing…my god, the bowing) just so I can look at Gael Garcia Bernal's pretty, pretty face.

All I could think about when we were literally stuck between some rocks and a hard place (i.e. the table) with that burglar blocking the way was that it was karmic retribution for releasing Dig Rat. RIP, little buddy :( No one will ever be able to fill the hole you dug in our hearts.

I was confused at first since I thought Chow had made this movie many years ago, but then I realized I was thinking of A Chinese Odyssey. A pity that this is in Mandarin though, Cantonese is just better for his brand of offbeat, scatological humor.

It's especially funny because that guy totally made a throwaway disqus/AVC account just to attack the article/insult people who disagree with him. No doubt he's used his regular account to comment hundreds of times about new Community episodes.

Oh boy, there sure is a great deal of hostility in these comments not to mention the endless repetitions of "I don't care that you don't care that I don't care". Chill out, nerds! I mean, I'm one of you (I'm down to read Proust any day and I'm mostly just a casual football watcher) but I think the first few paragraphs…

I'm probably biased seeing as how he's one of my favorite character in ASoIaF, but Stannis is criminally underused on the show. I think D&D has explicitly stated in various interviews their dislike for him and it's one of the many factors that have turned me off the show. I think D&D were more sympathetic to Renly…

My uncle and aunt are ex-hippies and when my sisters and I were kids, they would try to cultivate our music taste by giving us various albums every year for Christmas. When we were younger, we weren't as enthusiastic about the whole endeavor (preferring our generic early-00's HFStival alt rock) but the more we…

-Romeo had Juliette…I think I had a defective version of this song where the track skips for a moment toward the end ("…something flickered for a moment/then vanished and was gone") and I liked how it reminded me of someone trying to turn on a lighter. If I listen to the track online, I always anticipate that skip and…

" Granted, calling the latest Nobel laureate for fiction a “geek obsession” is stretching it a bit. The Canadian author has been about as famous as any author of literary fiction of the past few decades, which is to say that she’s well known to a very small audience…"

The complete hardcover C&H box set is a beautiful collector's item but I'm not sure that it's entirely appropriate for young children. I treasure my set (as it was a lovely graduation gift years ago from my parents) but it mostly sits around collecting dust; it's heavy and unwieldy and not really useful for prolonged…

It sounds like your kids need to read Richard Thompson's "Cul de Sac". Even Bill Watterson is a fan (he wrote the foreword to one of the collections).

To this day, I still get a lot of mileage out of "I have a crush on every boy!" and "no, just regular type". What a difference a decade makes. I had dial-up then and while I was perfectly willing to wait ten minutes for each sbemail to load, I preferred watching new episodes at the houses of my friends who had…

Ugh, so many of those episodes were unwatchable. I will never understand how those episodes didn't get C or D ratings.

Honestly could not agree with you more. S3 was wildly inconsistent; its highs were some of the best episodes Community's ever done but it also had a lot of shitty, unfunny episodes that should not have been graded so highly. Many of the problems that people are complaining about for the post-Harmon episodes were…

Malcolm in the Middle is exactly right. I cringed every time Spacey turned to talk to the camera.

I'm so glad that TV Club is covering this show. I only learned about it a few years ago after hearing Mark McKinney on Fresh Air talking about the show. Terry played a clip (probably involving Darren Nichols —foolproof strategy to induce listeners to look up the show). To this day, my friend and I still apologize with…