Except for Gillian Anderson.

"The problem is that I don't think you can just hand wave away the Syndicate/Consortium as being conned by an even greater conspiracy."

Yes, Carter is a bad writer in the way that David Lynch is a bad writer. He sucks a natural dialogue and sometimes his narratives are wonky, but you know that going in. If that stuff bothered us, we wouldn't have made it past season 4-5 of the X-Files, let alone season 10, let alone a single episode of Millennium!

"explains that she left Mulder because he suffers from a form of clinical depression. WTH?"

First up: I love that the YouTube surrogate in the X-Files universe is now officially called Mind Quad. And it's weird to think that YouTube was not even really a Thing when season 9 aired.

The hypocrisy they're referring to is that, for all her moralising about personal responsibility, her show basically creates a pretend-version of the legal system where court cases are quick and fun, no one really loses out, free money just sort of happens… and so on.

I would guess that the majority of people who watch Judge Judy don't live on the poverty line. And even people who do still like to see America represented as being full of attractive people with nice teeth on TV.

It's kind of ironic that people like Jerry Springer get the bad reputation that the likes of Judy Sheindlin deserve.

The danger with these things is that people think this is how courts and litigation are. Americans already have a completely incorrect notion of what the justice system is like because of TV.

Has AV Club ever done a "finales where everyone dies" listicle?

Ha, nah, you're thinking of the movie. Cluedo was a British TV gameshow which was actually somehow weirder than the US movie.

Early 1990s TV was great. Someday I will live-tweet one of my binge-watches of all four seasons of Cluedo.

Robbie was part of my sexual awakening and I don't even care who knows this anymore.

"When his family comes home, it would be really easy for him to lie his way out of it and say he was raped, victimized the entire time, and never voluntarily took part in anything."

…yeah, because no other language does that, of course.

The thing is, it does also suggest that they WANT to do the right thing, even if it is difficult. S(&)P have always walked the line well, and that's because they don't want to be offensive to everyone - and they've never courted the Family Guy-loving "offensive stuff is good, u mad bro?" crowd. There have been so…

"Then again, not a single gun gets fired in the episode (not even by Officer Barbrady!), and they’re instead used as tools that inspire thoughtful, if tense and heated, conversation among all of the characters. Does this mean that Parker and Stone—despite having always stood up for gun rights—believe that all debates…

The Eyebogeymen.

Episodes where a character has to do something boring for insane amounts of time because of Reasons are pretty much de rigeur for Moffat as well.

Always nitpick. Never don't nitpick.