TBH, so am I. The whole sequence is shot so that you can never tell what's happening to whom where. In my notes, I wrote, "I guess we're in London now?"

I think it is. Alex might have given zero Vs to Fantastic Four. (I think that's unfair. I would have given it 1.5 Vs.)

For as much as people always got mad about TV seemingly pulling off a coup, my budget was actually tightened after the Dissolve folks left. The shift was always toward shorter, more potentially viral content. And it worked! Traffic boomed. *shruggie guy*

They changed their headline strategy about a year ago, and I would bet anything that tanked their traffic. (I haven't seen it obviously.)

The TV recap market for things other than Game of Thrones has basically been shot all to hell in the past couple of years, because time-shifting killed the big audience you could get from it. Now, the readership is a trickle, and that's much harder to monetize.

When I left, I left several memos instructing people what to do on specific dates. Wait until you hear the memo for January 5, 2018!

*twiddles thumbs*

I think there'd be more talk about Humans if it had also won director. But, yeah, I was impressed it won four out of its six.

We try! We don't always get there, but our aim is for stuff that's deeply reported, or really thoughtful, or interesting, or some combination of all those.

Toobin's book suggests that essentially everybody thought such a short deliberation meant conviction. So Ito getting ready for the worst case scenario makes sense.

The Shamrock Shake, like the McRib, has a cult following. America loves its gimmick food.

Pasquale was at Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 the night I saw it. He brought Taye Diggs. They both cried their eyes out.

Look at the pub date: before that movie was released. I mean, most of the people credited on this article work other places now!

Look at the pub date: before that movie was released. I mean, most of the people credited on this article work other places now!

I know for a fact he used to read these reviews/comments.

Yes. I would think it was a much lesser show if I think it thought Hannibal was in any way an awesome human being.

All of which is to say, Hannibal is a better show with a higher ceiling, on aggregate, than Homeland. But Homeland, at its best, has quiet consistency, which I'm not sure you can say for Hannibal in the slightest this season.

I probably would say this, too, but for season three, which had a lot of problems, while increasing the weird cinematic ambitions that made this one of the best shows on TV.

I think FOTB is on a 30 Rock-esque tear in season two. The only thing keeping it from my top 10 is that it had some shaky eps in season one, which is to be expected but still holds it back a bit.

This was the best Homeland season since season one! I've just been remiss in writing about it.