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I also see what they mean by "back to basics." The second episode would have been a concept episode in previous seasons, but the "concept" is shoved way off to the side, in favor of character shenanigans.

I know for a fact Libby has been to Modesto! Multiple times!

If we are ranking California cities, Modesto is at or near the bottom. Runner-up for Miss Fresno? That's a title worth aspiring to.

"Calling it now: Doug Stamper will be found in time to save his life, and the search for Rachel will dominate far too much of season three."

I think we were all agreeing that it fell off sometime after S3. Sonia and Sims just think it was already falling off in S3, and I think that was the best season.

This was my favorite Modern Family in quite a while! It was dumb, but fun.

Well, The Slap is a dramatic miniseries, so not really comparable.

Ehrlich is seriously one of the best film writers working today, and he's just 30. Take him seriously!

My feeling on this is that it's important to have stories out there about how relationships don't have to be forever to have worth. Robin and Barney's marriage can be important and meaningful to both of them but can still end. Ted moving on after his wife's death doesn't invalidate his love for her.

The bar set for Happy Endings, at least, is a standing set on the Paramount lot that just gets redecorated for a lot of different things.

Yeah, her lack of resume would have been the biggest thing standing against her. But early TV was full of weird experimentation. In fact, if they had just said she was starting out at a local station (entirely possible), I wouldn't have batted an eye.

This is actually probably MORE possible in the '50s, when the early pioneers of TV were willing to take a chance on just about anybody who had an interesting idea for a TV show. Granted, we don't know what Elsa's idea WAS, but in terms of verisimilitude, this is something AHS got mostly right.

We probably need a better way to talk about these sorts of things in the media. They're the new version of Dish Network fighting with Fox News.

Interestingly, just five years ago, making a movie about the Iraq War was considered a huge financial risk. American Sniper is pretty close to Hurt Locker, structurally speaking, but Hurt Locker struggled, where Sniper could clear $200 million.

Less competitive timeslot. Agent Carter was up against a bunch of solidly performing shows. Galavant was… largely by itself.

Just look at all the good Wings did!

I have no idea!

I think we've had these conversations before!

I also still have AVTVClub Twitter privileges, if you've ever had dark thoughts you wanted to broadcast to a surprisingly large audience.