Anthology series fall victim to the costs involved in introducing entirely new locations every week. You can't spread the expense out over a huge swath of episodes airing over the course of a few years.

I'd be thrilled if that existed just as a podcast, with all parts played by Werner.

@avclub-501c54d131c3b93043a744af0c259c58:disqus I keep forgetting that! It gives it a strange uncanny valley rustbelt vibe. It looks familiar, but something is off about it.

I figured it's really well known, while "No One Was Like Vermeer" is basically concentrated post-Modern Lovers Jonathan.

Jonathan Richman's tribute to Vermeer is about as endearing, esoteric and conversational as you might imagine.

Maybe the linked track is just not doing it for me, it really does sound like something I'd find on a stock music website.

@avclub-b0dae075785888267fc19871f3e7dab7:disqus Watch How to Survive a Plague on Netflix, if you haven't already. It deals with a lot of the issues surrounding unapproved drugs back when there was literally nothing to give someone with HIV / AIDS.

Easily one of the most underrated movies of the last decade.

I'm never sure how to react when a comedian (man or woman) is suddenly anointed as being The Next Big Thing in Humor.

Haha, what a story!

Case in point, around midnight every Sunday, Breaking Bad season pass holders receive an email from iTunes letting them know the latest episode is available to download.

Bit of an Overload.

I'm pretty sure it's a thing Joe did in his own life for a bit when he got into a really reflective mood.

I can't find a reference, so this may be my faulty memory at work here, but I'm pretty sure the only reason it's in the show is because JMS used to go on long walks around the city while he tried to figure things out in his head.

Um, yeah. Every awesome birthday with wall-to-wall friends makes me remember the ones from junior high where I would've loved to have even Kirk Cameron show up.

Did you see The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou?

I've always hated it and "The Jean Genie" with a passion and can't bear to listen to either track.

The top photo has convinced me that Ed Robertson is just another one of Jeffery Combs' many characters.

Hazardous amounts of sunscreen?

I think the reveal near the end of How to Survive a Plague would be far less impactful if you knew what was coming.