Pet peeve alert — here is an excellent sentence:

I still remember the day a friend and I decided to flip over his Hey Jude 45 just to see what the other, surely lesser, song sounded like. My first "holy shit, listen to THAT" moment. If "least skippable" means "song that physically prevents you from skipping it", I mean…..

#1 on my list of shows that need a retro review podcast.

Disappointed that Game of Thrones is only 30 minutes tonight. But very much looking forward to the hour-long Silicon Valley episode, which I am assuming is to be Very Special!

Mountain Goats for John Darnielle's Christmas song being on the AV Club front page for three solid years.

"I'm ordinarily open-minded, of course, but facts are facts — that entire race region is clearly inferior." —GWTW reader A.V. Club commenter

Only accepting business from like kinds is a surefire way to wither away a hipster economy. Sooner or later they'll have to stop just selling to each other and accept the cash infusion that big, dumb basics like Louie represents.

Yeah, I just pretended it ended earlier. The studio note seam was so obvious, given the Groundhog Day conceit of the movie as a whole, that it lifts right out if you choose to ignore it.

You're right, of course. Still, that scene was surely edited to maximize the comedic effect…

Paige (brightly): "He's coming."

Winglebert Humptyback?

At some point I'd forgotten to only say "Miller" the way David Tennant says "Miller", so I'm glad this is back. I will note he didn't shout it in the first episode, which is a very canny approach. Always leave 'em wanting more….

Nah, it probably just crops up disproportionally in the reviews I gravitate to. Just my (slightly, I hope) asshole-ish way of saying I enjoyed reading about the episode qua the episode, instead of it veering too far into thinkpiece territory (for which the offending word is, to employ a pertinent idiom, my canary in…

The absence of the word "serialization" in this recap befuddled me. I…think I liked it!

It's definitely coming back — how does Bates "forget" a pub proprietor with whom he served in the Boer War? I'll bet pounds to crumpets they burned farms together.

Coincidentally, Wasikowska's character in this movie suffers her crimson peak at a most inopportune moment.

Is this a show that's enhanced, or even illuminated, by deconstruction?

Certainly the dialogue in Justified ranks with the very best, but there's no comparison between it and Breaking Bad in terms of depth given to secondary characters. Tim and Rachel have backstories, but neither is as indelible a character as, say, Skinny Pete. The show doesn't invest in their inner lives (other than…

I think he was just framing the issue in a way that he could say it out loud, instead of "hey, I just realized that's Edith's bastard child!"

LeBron's hairline appears to have been written out in.