Monk was a great show at its best.

These are his best roles, too, with the addition of Edward scissor hands…

The band, up on cripple creek and bill Monroe, ten brooks and Molly. So there.

Tim armstrongs fender signature acoustic is a lovely sounding guitar. Just sayin'

I was expecting a biopic on Australian ex-cricketer and now tv host, mike Whitney. Boy was I disappointed.

That's more like it

Trips over Barry trying to run with tears in eyes

click go the shears, boys, click click click…

This has been a disappointing AVClub experience… wheres' the snark? Where are the experts who know nothing but will contribute. Instead we've had an intelligent, empathetic discussion in which I've learned things.

St Anger or GTFO!

I don't speak to my pa. I tell my secretary to tell her what I want.

One note sorkin Everyone speaks in the same rhythms. The same inflections - actually it's all rapid fire monologue. Even tarantino knows not to do that.

It was designed to be more 'street' than it ended up being as well. Hints drop through (in one of the earliest episodes, the sweat hogs visit the kotters and steal the TV which is promptly returned by horshack).

Well, no. He won't.

As a child growing up in Australia, I wanted to live in Brooklyn, or the Bronx: that credits sequence of Kotter in which the guy is on the bike seemed the most romantic and exceiting thing to me. Barney Miller, Sesame street, all those shows that showed New York as (really) a broke dump seemed to me to be much more…

I got a note…

Everyone but Kevin corner is making a goodtim farce, with some adventure thrown in. Costner seems to be making a serious meditation on banditry? Dances with crusades?

start here…

Made in Heaven, and A kind of magic need to be higher. Miracle was their worst (though it had great songs), and Innuendo improved things…

Listen to the albums: here's an article which gets away from the singles - it's not bad either… http://www.toppermost.co.uk…