(Actually, that was an unnecessary slam at Buzzfeed, which employs the amazing Alison Willmore. I'm sorry, Buzzfeed!)

Almost all of our TV coverage is written by me. I just went through my last 10 pages of pieces and saw maybe five pieces that fit your description. The vast majority are either newspieces, business reporting (which I did a lot of at AVC, too), or (this is most of them) pieces about filmmaking technique. And quite a…

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The level of surprise I get from people when I tell them this is actually really great (and that people like Soderbergh, Matt Weiner, etc., are really into it) is like I've killed their dog or something.

The "myopic rhyming" (aka incorrect) pronunciation is apparently thanks to the Brits. God, what haven't they ruined?

THANK you.

Accurate.

Flip-flop how the mystery and character back-story was revealed, and you have a much more satisfying season. Spending literally the whole premiere on back-story for characters we didn't yet care about killed momentum in all directions.

The problem is that the person who would know the answers to that question (Woody Allen) wasn't there. And since they're not even in production yet, he probably doesn't know just yet either.

If this show only had the courage to follow fan fiction rules and split both couples off into same-sex partnerships, it could truly go down in the annals of television history.

I think it's incredibly overrated.

My guess is that Ani's new friend isn't the best source of this particular information, i.e., I think the gigantic conspiracy that encompasses all of California may have told her what she wanted to hear.

The overall directorial aesthetic is lovely. I'm not talking about the animation. I'm trying to compare apples to apples, as Mad Men isn't (obviously) animated.

Theory based on personal experience: as each episode becomes more structurally well-constructed and precise, the overall hollowness of the show's characters reveals itself more and more. That season premiere was, I think, deadly. It caused a lot of us to disengage from the characters, and a lot of us just never got…

Big Love uses polygamy as a metaphor for modern fundamentalist religion, so the idea that they can live openly is essentially that everybody will get on board with them. Their exposure each season doesn't stick because, ultimately, nobody really cares, similarly to how people don't really care when they find out about…

The dialogue would play better if it were delivered by actors who understood its rhythms.

Not really. They keep a really close watch on screener access, and you have to have specialized links to get where you need to go. They also require a more complicated password than "password."

I think that's the most likely conclusion. But it doesn't mean they think the episodes are bad. It could just mean they think the bad reviews have become a self-perpetuating cycle at this point, and there's no real reason to keep providing episodes.

HBO spent most of its life sending out episodes on DVDs that were incredibly easy to rip if you wanted to do so, without even the faintest hint of copy protection. It now has an online screening room that's watermarked all over the place and not exactly easy to hack into, especially for the small handful of trusted…

HBO spent most of its life sending out episodes on DVDs that were incredibly easy to rip if you wanted to do so, without even the faintest hint of copy protection. It now has an online screening room that's watermarked all over the place and not exactly easy to hack into, especially for the small handful of trusted…