He wrote a nice, intelligent, and eloquent essay for The Criterion Collection's "Trouble in Paradise" too. It made me realize that he can actually be a good and even likable writer when writing about an old movie. Unfortunately, he seems to enjoy spending most of his time being a jerk about new movies. After I read…

Terry Farrell said on the DVDs that if they had to kill her off, she wishes it would have been in this episode. I agree. It would have been a much more resonant and respectable death. Her actual death was, to me, another Tasha Yar situation. It felt like something forced because the actress was leaving - unnatural,…

Well, at least one good thing came out of this show's existence. T.C.M. shilled for it by having Edward Burns on as a guest and (more importantly) spending 12 hours of a day showing classic and obscure gangster pictures.