I know. I was just hoping that this would be an anthology series of his short stories or something. I swear it was originally sold/marketed as an anthology (heck, this article even lists it so in the info box). Thatdidn’t set expectations for a Lost/Westworld-style series influenced by Stephen King stories, but not…

Small-town puzzle-box drama? I thought this was an anthology series? I guess it still can be. How standalone are the individual episodes? I’m getting a little tired of everything being serialized.

Sell Bendelacreme and Jinkx on taking over. They’d make a good team. Ben is earnest enough about the art to try to genuinely improve the show, if they’d let him. Jinkx would balance out that earnestness.

This show is amazing. I hope people are watching it.

I think Ninja Theory may have been in a position where they either needed to get bought or start to tighten their belts. I know Hellblade did well, but they went to a lot of trouble to make that as cost-effectively as possible.

Eww, the podcast that predated it is still ongoing, too. I’ll try to even out my guilt for supporting title plagiarism by subscribing to both podcasts. My appetite for podcasts covering trash pop culture is insatiable anyway.

Next week:

I wrote out a lengthy reply to this, but Lord Kinja decided to toss it.

And then there was the time Volkswagen used Psychic TV’s Roman P in a commercial.

Something beautiful died today.

Testing to see if I’m a dreaded gray by responding to a post by beloved Dikachu.

I agree, PunkRockOldLady. I feel bad for the staff—I have a feeling this is going to hurt the whole place and they can't do anything about it.

Ever since this news has been made known, I've been training myself to go to reddit for chatter on TV shows that I care about. I'd say on the whole, the TV communities I care about are well moderated. Some shows have fewer thoughtful commenters and some are about as good as here. The nonsense posts are about the same…

Re: Kinjapocalypse. I've been easing myself into Reddit. It hasn't been so bad. The TP and RuPaul groups there are pretty decent. For mobile, just find a decent app to make Reddit manageable. I use Narwhal on iOS.

I can confirm this. I just read it a few weeks ago. Laura says something about noticing a few pages have been torn out.

Ugh. It hurts to lose this column—probably my favorite in the site's history. Between this, the atrophying of TV Club, and the rise of stuff like Dinner Club, it feels like the AV Club is less and less for me every year.

Pretty nice idea for a book. If it ends up on Kindle, I'm in.

Is it really her fault that someone was rooting around in her garbage can?

I refuse to believe that Dads is worse than both The Following AND Hemlock Grove.

Well, I'm sure they built a gazebo over their barbecue pit before anyone could notice.