Personally I prefer Andrew/Steve/Eric. I always feel like so many of the show's funniest tangents originate from Eric's various strange ideas.

But even here you prove my point; the show is a lot like parts of The Wire, thematically- which I always saw as, in part, a meditation on the corrupting influence of masculinity on the level of institutions. Your description also makes it sound reminiscent of the most recent season of Mad Men. Cohle is the most…

It's well acted and has atmosphere, but thematically there is nothing new there. How many damn 'meditations on masculinity' do we need???

The Shield didn't hide from the fact that the beating up of suspects was frequently unjustified and criminal, and was aware that the racial undertones were unsettling.

I adored Midnight's Children, but then gave up on The Satanic Verses. I'm not sure if I was missing something, but I just remember it being a complete mess that didn't look like it was going to bring itself together. Maybe I was missing a bunch of religious knowledge, but I'd got through MC pretty easily and…

I'm 10 years younger than them, and honestly, I don't even like the original Ghostbusters very much. It's okay, I guess, moderately amusing at times but…whatever. Yeah, I follow the Koski interpretation.

Steve Buscemi's character in The Big Lebowski, constantly insulted by John Goodman's Walter

But…but…The Body is so good =[

Chris really would have been a much better character if he had just been treated like Donny

Hell's Bells isn't that bad. The final decision is stupid, and unearned, but before that it's reasonably entertaining.

Why can't it be The Body? And if it wasn't that, it'd have to be Becoming consarnit

They'll make sure to try to constantly make the executioner be a poetic, tragic figure who isn't bad really- all the people he kills are way worse, and when someone innocent does die, well there's no way that was his fault! It will descend into pointless misery very quickly.

If they wanted to be the thinking-person's 24, they should have gone the opposite route; slow everything down, take more time to consider every movement and interrogate the characters. I think the first season was great as it was; I think in the second season, they should have kept Brody in play as a Congressman.…

What? I thought this was a pretty well-written defence of the show. I don't agree, but I understand Phil's viewpoint.

I want them to explain the rules of Eschaton, and do at least 10 episodes, in real time, of Steeply and Marathe standing/sitting on that mountain.

Yeah, I just thought it was an amusing little part of an episode. Two consenting adults had some fun in a one-off situation. I didn't need it to become an ongoing thing.

Hell, I've been reading these reviews all season for that! That D+ was some great catharsis after all the slow-building frustration that has been evident this year.

The way the show presents itself plays this up as well- even during the first half of S3, I'd argue, it presented itself as grounded. In fact, that seems to be a pattern; the writers think that if they pretend to be a serious drama during the first half of each season, they can get away with going bananas in the…

I believe the final episode is a Mardi Gras ep. Wouldn't be the same show without one! Always a season highlight.

I would NOT want to watch this show during winter. It's so oppressive and disturbing that after I watch it, I want to see sunlight and hear birds to remind myself there are happy things in the world.