"I really enjoyed the High Castle pilot"

Horrible Excrement Returns Over Extensive Shrieks

And it seems to hew closely to the " 'sitcom' means 'thirty minutes of characters insulting each other' " paradigm that Roseanne made so popular.

Is her the star of Angel From Hell? It sounds to me that her is playing a supporting role.

By star vehicles for performers who make better seasonings than main courses?

Cough if anyone dies in the pilot.

Game theory can get a bit weird: if the makers of a show can show that they have prevented everyone from making any comments, even good ones, then if there is no advance praise for the show, that's not evidence against it being a good show. So it can be in the interest of a show to have a policy against letting people…

Gentleman's 2?

I got really tired of how they kept coming up with contrived reason why Sylar still hadn't gotten caught. Having him survive the season was just the final straw.

And a film reel means that there's some external evidence other than just imagination.

Is this one of those "figurative" uses of "literal", or are the stakes on Everest or something?

That was Brendan Gleeson.

They're letting people post comments in response to articles now?

In the early days of films, serials were quite common. Now, there's been a bifurcation where TV is treated as the proper home for serial storytelling, and movie studios are expected to present stand-alone works. When they instead churn out installment after installment of a franchise, there's much handwringing about…

I, for one, welcome our new anti-Stratfordian overlords.

"Days of Future Past" sounds good only if you're not really listening.

So, you don't consider American Sniper to be "original"?

I scrolled down just to mention this scene. The 30 second delay is a masterstroke. It takes the meta-ness to a new level. When you're watching a movie, the entire story is set in stone. To quote LOST, what happened, happened. But part of the movie-watching experience, part of the suspension of disbelief, is feeling…

I'm also not clear on what "From here until her death, whenever Barrymore tries to wrest her role" is supposed to mean. Was "wrest" supposed to be "resist"? I've seen really basic mistakes on AVClub, such as "it's" for "its". And the thing about not having good copyediting is that people stop trusting that you know…

The other thing with CitW is the realization that, actually, it's best if the heroes die. The "villains", while perhaps taking a bit too much pleasure in their work, are working for the greater good. The ambivalence about who to root for blunts the horror side of the movie. There's a difference between slasher/horror…