I agree to a degree. Obviously an escalation that took 400 pages isn't going to work 1:1 on TV, but I think they could've employed some subtlety.

I have to disagree about 11.22.63. It's far too over the top. Part of what made the book so goddamned good was how subtle The Obdurate Past was in asserting itself. It steadily ramped up as the titular day drew closer. The show completely ignores this gradual escalation and starts at about 8 and only goes up from…

My pick is Metalachi, which is, as the name implies, a mariachi metal cover band.

I'm still holding out hope that someone at FX will stumble upon the Gentlemen Bastards series by Scott Lynch and realize how great it'd be as a TV show.

I liked Rogan more when he was drawing a parallel between Nazi propaganda and our fetishization of war.

House of Cards seems, to my viewing, to be in desperate need of a redeeming quality for Frank. In shows like The Shield, the viewer can get behind a blatantly corrupt figure like Mackey because not only does he have genuinely good intentions, but he's also got characters who are actually good around him. Frank is…

As far as I can tell, that was sort of the point. He was playing from behind for most of the season. As for Russo's girlfriend, she got fired, the reporter took the plea and went to prison (though given how Rachel ended the season, I doubt we've seen the last of him), and wasn't it said at some point that the General…

If one were to be cynical, one would look to the year plus turnaround date from when something culturally significant happens to when Family Guy gives its take on it. One could, possibly, use that to infer that Bryan was never going to stay away.

If I'm not mistaken, it's changed throughout the series. Originally, only the Griffins could hear him, and eventually, either because they forgot or because they ran out of ideas (I'll let you choose), they expanded it to the rest of the world.

As long as you're still watching them.

I will be interested to see the eventual supercut that rearranges all of the various pieces of the season into something resembling the proper order.

I misread Rick as Jim and it was way better.