Didn't it appear on another AV Club list like, yesterday?

That episode alone fully justified the additional half-season.

Carrie & Lowell, Belle & Sebastian's new album, Agent Carter, Kimmy Schmidt, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

You guys are totally forgetting about Jon Snow and his time-turner.

So basically, The Magicians?

I went back and watched the Season 6 finale a few nights ago, and was struck again by what a great series finale it would've been.

Leslie & Ron was far better than the finale.

as long as your sadness is not anthropomorphized as a blue fat person.

My favorite was when they described the last Harry Potter movie as a "Gotterdammerung for eight-year-olds."

Just watched the last episode of the series, and it actually improves on the book.

Noel Gallagher, Sufjan, Father John and the Decemberists all made strong albums (What a Beautiful World demonstrated a new maturity in Colin Meloy's songwriting that I hope the band will stick with). Belle & Sebastian's album was also a welcome return to form, and gave us one of their best songs in nearly a decade.

This was the first episode that really gave me confidence in the way Harness and Haynes are adapting my favorite novel. The last 15 minutes are emotionally and visually stunning, with the double blow of Stephen's vision and Lady Pole's desperate assassination attempt counterpoised to powerful effect.

"Pierre Menard, director of Psycho."

This is how I imagined it when I read it, and it made the subsequent film almost unwatchable.

It's funny because it could happen.

BBC television adaptations of the Middle Earth books. And eventually maybe Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell with a jovial, funny Gentleman.

I'll give you that. The decision to center an entire blockbuster movie around mundanity and characters not being heroic was a brave one.

When Disney acquired the rights to Narnia in the 90s, they envisioned a film where the kids live in LA, enter Narnia through a swimming pool, and eat hot dogs instead of Turkish Delight.

Lord Asriel betrays Lyra and murders her friend Roger to build a bridge to our world, and it is every bit as awesome as it sounds.

I have to agree that Yates is somewhat overrated as a director of Harry Potter films. The fifth movie is one of the worst in the series, second only to the first one (and it was my favorite book). The series really peaked with movies 3 and 4.