I thought the Carver twins were one of The Leftovers's few saving graces, though I missed the ass shot. (I gave up on it after six episodes of drudgery.) They played their roles like they'd just walk off Wisteria Lane, which in the context of The Leftovers made them amusing and endearing. I liked them better on both De…

I'll miss the weekly reviews, though I don't disagree with the reasons why they are ceasing. I'm on board with this show and interested in seeing how it develops. It seems like it could have been a pretty awesome self-contained 13-episode series — I wonder how much of the blandness and somewhat uneven plotting stems…

I can and do. I gave up on The Leftovers after six episodes of meandering, pretentious wallowing in deliberately obtuse characterizations that seem little more than vehicles for the writers' obsessions rather than anything approaching flesh & blood human beings. Nothing in The Strain has been as cheesy as the The…

Finally, 5 episodes into Season 2, MOS is back on track! This is easily the best episode of the season and a nice recovery from the showboating, Emmy-bait contrivance that was "Fight" two episodes ago. I agree with Sonia that the one false note may have been Coral speaking so frankly and in such a pointedly…

Last season's "I can't live without you" declaration was a miscalculation, I think. To the extent that the show is trying to maintain any connection with the source material, don't expect Bill and Gini to ride off into the sunset with the promise of everlasting happiness and passion. Their marriage, by most accounts…

I don't get that from show at all. I agree that they are setting up the dissolution of Bill and Libby's marriage, but it doesn't seem to me it is blaming Libby nor turning her into a racist shrew. A racist shrew wouldn't even have attempted the botched apology to Coral's man. Libby's racism seems both casual and…

Interesting … I have not been thinking that the show is particularly concerned with marching through the biographical details, since it has taken so many liberties with the record already. At this point, it would be pretty impossible to get on track with that. I'm having a hard time imagining how the show's versions…

At the very least, Gus needs to keep showing flesh.

There haven't been any good episodes of the The Leftovers,

Exactly. I look forward to Gus … in a wifebeater … out of a wifebeater.

I make it a point to give almost every show I think I might like six episodes before making a decision whether to continue, since it often takes a while to see what's going on. (Sometimes I give up before then — most recently, with Dominion, which I could only hang in there on for three episodes.) So I'm happy to say…

I kept thinking, "this is the show's Emmy episode." It felt arch, contrived and forced, not least because of the entirely unrealistic and impossible way the narrative was stretched (the fight lasting what had to have been at least three or four hours). Some of the dialogue was so bluntly "writerly" and unnatural that…

I only made it through the first six episodes of season one before giving up out of boredom. I was at least interested enough to read this review, but even appreciating its praise, I'm pretty sure this show just isn't for me.

Fumbling Toward Ecstasy is an awesome album, but I'll admit that my opinion is colored by the fact that I think she has a beautiful, supple voice. Still, that fact isn't sufficient not to leave me disappointed with most of her output since then. There are some okay pop songs on Surfacing, but I find Angel cloying.

The Uncharted Territories would be suffering from a potentially catastrophic helium shortage were it not for Rygel farting the stuff every time he's nervous.

"Are we having fun yet?!" from Party Down. I love how after it being the bane of Henry's existence as a reminder of how low he as sunk from the very first episode, he actually resorts to using it to save his ass from Russian mobsters in "Celebrating Ricky Sargulash." They got a lot of mileage out of that gag.

The Chartreuse Seder

I am fully prepared to believe that I will like the episode better upon re-watching the whole season. In that context, it might be refreshing to take a break from the political intrigues of all the other plot lines and characters.

I always assumed running through corridors was a way to remind viewers that Moya is a very large ship.

Exactly. I only ever saw them perform at a record-store appearance in lower Manhattan (pretty sure it was Tower Records) and I was surprised at how light-hearted and jaunty they were in person. At that point I had only listened to "The Man Who," which grew on me enormously over a period of few months, but "Good…