It's sort of weird how NBC's tendency to give their comedies time to figure themselves out/find an audience can sometimes be wonderful (Parks & Rec! Community! The Office! 30 Rock!) and can sometimes be terrible (Outsourced, Whitney, every minute that they give to something keeping Community off the air).

It's weird that I can't handle you capslocking TV show titles, considering that I work in publishing, where standard practice is capslocking book titles. I can't figure out what my problem is.

I would agree if the actor playing Loras looked anything like how he's described in the book. (Renly Baratheon, too. Gorgeous in the book, not so much in the show.)

@avclub-df1e0236446701781694ff3350b618ec:disqus That's it EXACTLY. Well put.

I thought for a very, very long time that Ned hadn't actually died (this doesn't count as a spoiler anymore, right? If we're coming up on season 2 of the show?) because Arya, whose perspective we see that chapter through, is forced to look away.

I used to really dislike Catelyn, but in rereading I realized she's one of the most impressive characters in that world. She's a fantastic politician, a skilled negotiator, a surprisingly good general considering she's never been to war, and very very good at moving through the world as a powerful woman without ever…

Ugh, book 4 too. I remember being bored with 4 the first time I read it, but thought that was because I hated all those characters. When I reread it this year, I realized that yes, I DO hate most of those characters, but also NOTHING EVER FUCKING CHANGES. It's 1000 - well, 2000 with 5 - pages of people wandering…

I figured this was part of the "campaign poison" thing, though I suppose that wouldn't really prevent him from sitting in the crowd.

It might be because this was the first thing I ever saw Louis CK in, but I thought that Leslie and Dave were just so boring together. Sweet, sure, but I never actually cared about them and thought it was pretty obvious that he was just too dumb for her. I liked Dave, thought he was a good guy who was good to Leslie,…

But seriously, if they had to lose most of the poster, that was absolutely the part to keep. It actually looked intentional.

I got it (and a Troy & Abed in the Morning mug, which I braved Rockefeller Center on a Sunday afternoon the week before Christmas to get) for my notoriously-difficult-to-shop-for dad. For the rest of the morning, he kept flipping to stuff, laughing, and reading it aloud, while the rest of us were doing actual…

I loved how her smile was not for the dog, but for the dog being really bad at something. OF COURSE April wants the defective dog with the ironic name.

Holy crap, I don't think I ever realized that was supposed to be an upside-down exclamation mark. I mean, I didn't pay much attention to this show, so it's entirely possible that every time I've seen it was actually as "iRob!", but still.

I don't totally understand where a man named Michael Patrick King gets off making fun of the Irish.

Well, since the awards shows themselves take place during the next year of eligibility, I assume that the 5th Awards Awards Show will be nominated for the 6th Awards Awards. Etc.

Ok, valid. To be fair, despite having done a fair amount of theatre, I have no ability to recognize a director's hand in something. I'm much more likely to point to the actors or writers.

I hate that my ridiculous bitterness towards Modern Family over being nominated excessively for EVERYTHING over better candidates (seriously, NOTHING from that fucking-amazing-with-no-weak-episodes season of Parks?) means that I will never be able to enjoy an episode. I hadn't watched it before last year's Emmys…

Her father was married to his mother for a brief period shortly before the movie begins. They're not legally or blood-related siblings, nor were they raised together, but most importantly, it's a weird attempt to find a modern parallel to the relationship between Emma and Mr. Knightley in the Jane Austen novel (her…

I was talked into watching Sherlock by a British friend (who also loves Doctor Who) despite my massive reservations. I have such a clear idea of Holmes in my head that I haven't seen a movie adaptation I liked (though full disclosure: I don't know if I've seen Jeremy Brett). I love the stories and don't think anyone…

Also, while it's technically "case in point", it's not correct here anyway. Sorry to pick on you, but "case in point" DOES NOT mean "for example". It means, "Hey, I just provided an example of the thing I was talking about while I was talking about it." It's actually a pretty rare scenario. No one uses this correctly,…