Sure, and I can respect the show, but that's not the same as finding it funny. I just feel like I'm missing out, since plenty of people saw it well after the fact and love it.

Hmm, perhaps I'll have to watch it again, but it always felt like an awkward implication and somewhat needless. As I said, I like the musical so much it wasn't a dealbreaker, just thought it could've done without it.

The thing about the later seasons is they often started off well… season 8 and 9 both had great episodes in their first halves (thinking of TOW Rachel's Other Sister and TOW the Videotape), but then towards the end of the season they got really dull. Season 10 I never really revisit aside from the finale.

I really have tried with Seinfeld but even with skipping forward to ones like the 'good episodes' mentioned here, all it ever gets is the odd chuckle from me. Do people really find Kramer funny? I don't know. It's the 'classic' show I want to like so much but just can't see what's so funny about it. The 'observations'…

Am I the only one who thought the first [Rec] was incredibly overrated and not that scary? Maybe it's just you see one found footage movie you've seen em all, and Blair Witch was a lot more effective.

Fair enough. I can see how TD also contained were also pretty stock characters, but I felt the dialogue and development of them was more compelling. Harrelson is cliched, but I liked the way the show shone a light on his hypocrisies and thought the show was an interesting - and fairly conscious - study of masculinity…

Definitely wasn't as good as True Detective. For one thing, whilst the characters seemed reasonably well-drawn, they were no where near as compelling as the leads in TD. Particularly Tony, who just repeatedly gives crazy eyes whilst almost beating up a suspect as Baptiste holds him back, telling him to calm down. I'm…

I saw All that Jazz recently and didn't hold much of a candle to Cabaret, though it does have some great scenes, such as that rehearsal sequence half way through, which was glorious. Loved the Jessica Lange-framed bits as well, but other parts of the drama did drag on a little.

The dream/fantasy thing seemed more in-built to Nine, than Chicago, where it made no sense, but the songs were so terrible it didn't make a difference either way.

I feel like beyond the first few songs the whole musical-numbers-as-dreams thing doesn't work in Chicago (the film) at all, since it's how characters interact with each other and tell their stories in some instances, rather than just how they see themselves, or how Roxy sees them. I mean, whose head(s) are they…

I have to agree, I've kept somewhat up to date with the storylines but gave up on the show in season 2. I thought the season 1 finale demonstrated flaws with the show's timeline as well (such as characters not acting like there had been months between events of consecutive episodes), even though I really enjoyed the…

I'd say of the non-2014 films I've seen this year two have really stuck with me, Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days, definitely my favourite film of hers I've seen, and Costa-Gavras' Missing.

People always throw the 'irrelevant' thing at Madonna but I always wonder, what makes an artist relevant/irrelevant?

Hard to tell what's older these days, Madonna, or Madonna-is-old jokes.

Agreed with your rankings and episodes, though I have to in spite of being in the middle of a weak season, 'Beginnings, Parts 1-2' will always be one of my favourite episodes of the franchise, so I'd add that in there.

I'm quite generous (and tbf should watch ATLA again) but…

I actually stopped watching the show this year (I didn't think season 4 was that great either). It had a really funny opening episode but then episodes would go by when I didn't laugh once. The country singing thing and Pam on coke - in particular - stopped being funny after one scene and then kept going on and on and…

Really? I just didn't buy his character transformation in the second season at all. Then it was kind of all an act in some respects, and I just didn't care. I don't think the writing did much for him once he got out of the institution, to be honest.

I'm not sure Varrick counts as 'good' just because he doesn't want to help create a WMD.

I love Hannibal but I still think this season was flawed, particularly during the second half once Will was released, where it all seemed to get a bit too ridiculous for its own good (I know the show never was one for realism and being a detailed procedural, but I just didn't buy Will's going-bad-but-not-quite…