Great news! I watched through Orange is the New Black's first season again the other week and it reminded me how much more I love not waiting between episodes and having to run into all the terrible discussion that goes on in those six days.

"Backlash"

To be fair, he's certainly far less "struggling" than Hannah is, which is probably part of what threw you off. The show I meant, though, is Louie.

Girls season 2 was my season of the year and remains it and will continue to remain it. What I continue to find it's largest strength in my book is most exemplified by It's A Shame About Ray, the best episode of television this year for my money, and especially in Shoshanna and Ray's interactions in that episode. In…

I'm really really glad to see Man of Steel and A Good Day to Die Hard so high on here but it's desperately missing Movie 43, in my opinion. I detest those two movies with all my being, but M43 is among the very very worst I've ever seen.

The song Bird Balloons by Lady Lamb the Beekeeper. It's so raw and affecting, brutal and beautiful. It's a great example of how Aly Spaltro is an enormously gifted songwriter as a lyricist, as a writer of melodies, and as someone who can structure a song in a novel, interesting way. It's also a great example of…

I'll only do a top 10, even though I could fill a list of 23 myself, or even 30. I don't even know that I could fill a list of 30 albums with any two other years. 2013 fucking blew me away in terms of music, far and away my favorite year of all time. Actually, I rethought it, and I can do the 30, I have done the…

I'm sad that My Brother, My Brother and Me didn't get any votes. Ah well. Comedy Bang! Bang! is certainly a worthy number 1.

I got about three minutes into this episode before it became intimately clear that this review entirely misrepresented how the characters are approaching the possibility of a telekinetic person and I'm sorta just done with these. They haven't represented a single thought I've had about the show yet, they aren't…

This is one of my very favorite movies actually, really glad to see it spotlighted on here. There may be no more emotionally lucid film I know.

The text of the review rags on Stuart "being an idiot" when he lets Kimberly have the room with that fellow in a way that seems, to me, to be criticizing the writing. I thought that was a really honest moment, probably one of the more powerful ones in the series. Maybe it's just the sort of thing you have to…

I'm a few days late but I just wanted to say that the scene in front of the fireplace with Bill and Libby where he seduces her into a romantic evening was the most disgusted I've been with a character in a long time. Bill seducing Libby in order to point to those events like facts on a facts sheet so he can have sex…

I've thought the show has been consistently terrific for a couple weeks now but I just wanted to give a special shoutout to Caitlin Fitzgerald this week. She had a really showy role last week and she was moving of course but this week there was something so alive about Libby. Definitely the standout of this episode,…

To put together a smattering of different mediums:

1. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Ripely Pine
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
3. Nataly Dawn - How I Knew Her
4. Lady Lazarus - All My Love in Half Light
5. Buke and Gase - General Dome
6. She & Him - Volume 3
7. Adam Green & Binki Shapiro - Adam Green & Binki Shapiro
8. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
9.…

Glad to see How I Knew Her mentioned! I picked it up here when it was listed in an article at some point and it was my favorite album of the year for a hot minute.

Au contraire, there is a lot of denying that Patricia Heaton is a gifted comedienne.

This is probably my favorite episode since Goodbye Michael, to be honest.  I cried like a baby, cheat be damned.  I don't even know what I'm going to do with myself next week.

This episode has absolutely nothing on the convention episode, as well as a handful of others this season, in terms of badness, in my opinion.

Ellie Kemper as Erin is the sort of performance that would keep me watching this show indefinitely, either until it ended or until she left.  She's been the best character on the show pretty much since the moment she was introduced, imo, and I don't follow the Office talk typically so I'm glad to hear she is well…