@We've Got the Makins, Sports Night was actually not set in the WTC, though they used it for establishing shots quite often. If I remember correctly from the episode where Dan and Casey are really hungry, they mention on-air that they are in mid-town Manhattan, not downtown.

Darren, while a generally insufferable character, is the catalyst for one of my favorite moments of the series: When Geoffrey busts into a cast party with the intention of dueling with Darren, there is a pause in the action as Geoffrey tells Darren, "I'm going to kill you." But the genius of the moment is that rather…

When the first person to post a comment on any given article makes any type of allusion to the concept of singularity in their post, no matter how incidental or tenuous, as you did when you posted the number "1," they are typically told that the rest of the commenters hope they get "cancerAIDS" and "die in a fire."

I dunno. Schrutee Bucks have devalued incredibly since Creed flooded the market with that crate full of counterfeits.

Nice Reference
Sean,

Finn
Weren't Finn and Puck seniors last season? Why are they still in high school?

Michael, I agree that last season was very strong. I found some of the developments to feel a bit stretched, but definitely surprising (I'm thinking of the reporter girl, who I still think of as "That Girl On Whom Ted Tried 'The Naked Man' On HIMYM"). But Lithgow and Hall knocked it out of the park, as did Carpenter…

@I am known by many names, can you please explain to me why people kept tuning into HEROES? I tuned in to the first episode, and it seemed pretty awful. I caught a spattering of episodes in season 1 and season 2, and it never got any better. It seemed obvious, inconsistent, and—worst of all—boring. I'm as much of…

@Joe Kickass, I did see it, and your estimation is right on the money. Kind of stupid, with some distracting decisions made in the writing and the direction, and entirely the type of movie you're meant to forget about an hour after seeing, but ultimately not irredeemably awful.

It's Docked for Being Tied to M. Night
Honestly, I think the exact same movie made without any ties to M. Night Shyamalan (and minus the self-aggrandizing NIGHT CHRONICLES 1 title card) probably would have gotten a slightly higher grade. maybe a C- or so.

Yeah. Maybe it's just because it strikes a chord with me given recent events in my own family, but "The Body" is one of the most devastating 45 minutes of anything I've seen.

Ben
I'll be vague, so as to stay spoiler-free, but as the Ben story plays out and we learn more about his relationship to Glory, it all feels a little sloppy. My going thought was that they had just introduced him as a familiar face in the hospital and potential rival for Riley and that they then decided it would be…

Under-used
Saw her at the UCB a couple years ago—she was riotous. I'm glad that they're finally giving her more to do, because she's been dispiritingly under-used on the show so far.

Bear in mind, I'm not complaining at all about "not getting 'answers'"—I loved the episode, and was as invested in the story by the end of the ep as I was during the last act of "The Constant," "The Man Behind the Curtain" and "Dr. Linus." It was freakin' good.

Yeah, I have to say that I was surprised by how invested I was tonight in a character who I never expected to work as anything other than a quiet enigma. I mean, we all knew Carbonell could act, and that he had range (truth be told, I still kinda wish they had found some excuse to reference Batmanuel), but by the end…

Wasn't all of that made explicitly clear by the opening and closing of last season's finale? We didn't get a single new "answer" this episode—mythologically, all we got was a bunch of clarification of things we either already knew or things that were hinted at strongly enough for people on internet comment boards to…

Remember that song, baby?
I could only get about thirty seconds in—I ended up bailing when they felt the need to auto-tune Josh Groban.

NF, I understand the fact that you're not a "genre snob," but Vonnegut won't help you make that case. He crossed over from genre into literary—even in circles where sci-fi is dismissed, Vonnegut, like Borges, is okay.

It's funny—I had the exact opposite reaction to "Notes to my Biographer." Granted it's been quite a while since I read it, so I'm fuzzy on the details, but I remember thinking that the voice felt forced, and came away from it feeling as though the writer was treating the character as a grotesque rather than a person,…

When did David Sedaris release a collection of short stories? His essay collections are great, but this list isn't about essays, it's about short fiction.