I remember being really wowed by this episode when it first aired, but feeling that it didn't hold up to repeated viewings.  I watched it again last week, knowing this review was coming up, and it faired a bit better, although, much like the dance scene in PMP, I felt like the ending tilted a bit too shippery for a…

Hell yes.  Factory was OK, but felt to me like a handful of good songs surrounded by songs by a band that was trying to sound like Guided by Voices.  Class Clown is a real album, though - not just a throwback or a pastiche, or Alien Lanes Part 2.  (Or Isolation Drills Part 2, for that matter.)  This is the sound of a…

Hell yes.  Factory was OK, but felt to me like a handful of good songs surrounded by songs by a band that was trying to sound like Guided by Voices.  Class Clown is a real album, though - not just a throwback or a pastiche, or Alien Lanes Part 2.  (Or Isolation Drills Part 2, for that matter.)  This is the sound of a…

I remember really not liking "Drive" when it first came out, simply because I was really not digging the new, sunny, LA look of the show.  Watching it again last year, shed of my atmospheric prejudice, I realized it's one of their best stand-alones.

I remember really not liking "Drive" when it first came out, simply because I was really not digging the new, sunny, LA look of the show.  Watching it again last year, shed of my atmospheric prejudice, I realized it's one of their best stand-alones.

And, not to be an a-hole, but it's "Kersh," not "Kresh."

And, not to be an a-hole, but it's "Kersh," not "Kresh."

Sad fact: it's June 2012 and I still haven't given up hope that somehow there's a top-secret shoot going on somewhere and we're going to get a whiz-bang final conspiracy arc just in time for the holidays.

Sad fact: it's June 2012 and I still haven't given up hope that somehow there's a top-secret shoot going on somewhere and we're going to get a whiz-bang final conspiracy arc just in time for the holidays.

(Ahem…I should mention that back when I thought I would literally die without The X-Files on TV and so forth, I was, like, 19.  A not particularly socially developed 19, at that.)

(Ahem…I should mention that back when I thought I would literally die without The X-Files on TV and so forth, I was, like, 19.  A not particularly socially developed 19, at that.)

Stray observation:  Back in the day, when there were rumors floating around that, due to contract disputes and what-not, season 5 of X-Files might actually be the last season, and the movie would be the first of several in an ongoing franchise, I thought I might actually, literally, physically die if I could not have…

Stray observation:  Back in the day, when there were rumors floating around that, due to contract disputes and what-not, season 5 of X-Files might actually be the last season, and the movie would be the first of several in an ongoing franchise, I thought I might actually, literally, physically die if I could not have…

Yeah, this is pretty great, especially the Bob/Toby vocals.  Sounds like something off of Under the Bushes….  I found Let's Go Eat the Factory kind of hit and miss, but I'm still excited to hear the next one. 

Nice write-up, Phil.  Agreed on Fusco's character arc, and on how this show is perhaps moving towards a subtle indictment of the very vigilantism that is its stock in trade.  And, yeah, it was a good thing they reined in that Odd Couple business before it got too squishy.  All in all, this was much better than I…

Agreed, intangible…I only started watching this show to see what Michael Emerson would get up to post-Lost, and found that it was a sort of halfassed procedural, with shades of Quantum Leap minus the humor and crossdressing.  It took it a while to click, but it's a lot less dour now and they're setting up some…

Getting the Blowholes back together in lieu of Polaris was the best thing you guys did.  Like some of the other (non-ironic!) commenters on this thread, I also found myself so overcome with emotion as to be moved to tears when they began to play.  I feel a little silly admitting to that, and maybe it was just that it…

Hey, is there going to be some kind of writeup of the reunion show(s) on Friday night?  And, if not, could someone please just tell me why Bus Driver Stu Benedict was in the audience but not on stage?

Andre Braugher as whatever color Keitel was. 

I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I'm one of those people.  And even more embarrassed to admit that I got all excited to see Bus Driver Stu Benedict as a crooked senator.  It's still kind of lame, but it's been improving over the past few episodes. This week's was a pretty decent mythology-builder.  Truthfully,…