Sorry for the delay. ( Writing is boring. )

couldn't sleep last night, so here are my top 10 TV series of all time:

1. The Simpsons
2. The Office (UK)
3. Community
4. Arrested Development
5. The Thick of It
6. The Sopranos
7. The Wire
8. Deadwood
9. Cheers
10. Clone High

Happy 2014, everyone. My music list is taking longer than usual, and will be up in a couple of months I assume. In the meantime, here are my ( favourite podcasts of 2013. )

I want to say this Breaking Bad shot is a crucial one when it comes to the show's endgame, but that might just be wishful thinking.


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I'm unemployed, so here are brief thoughts on ten (!) series I've watched recently, ordered by how much I liked them. I'm also in progress on Barney Miller and How I Met Your Mother, and at the end of their first seasons, feeling better about them both than I did when I started them.

not so good
Family Tree: I generally like Christopher Guest's ( Read more... )

Appropriately for a project of its bizarre ambition and scope, it's taken me a while to really formulate my thoughts about Arrested Development's fourth season. It's been a month since the episodes were released all at once via Netflix, and I feel like I'm far enough removed from the experience of watching them that I can talk about the season as a ( Read more... )

Writing about TV has felt like pulling teeth for me recently. In light of that, here are my favourite shows of the June 2012 - May 2013 TV season, but with their usual filibuster-length writeups condensed down to hopefully pithy blurbs. Enjoy.

( shit yeah )

I've occasionally said here that I don't watch too many movies. I made the decision long ago to mostly ignore the medium, not out of any personal vendetta, but because the form is so vast, with so many successes and innovations, that I would never be able to fully understand everything it's achieved. Knowing my voracious appetite for media, I'm ( Read more... )

Not for any real reason, but writing has seemed like a distant pipe dream for me the past few weeks, so here are some Twitter-type posts on things I've been meaning to talk about. Also, hey, I'm tweeting again, this time about music and TV and podcasts and all the things I care about more than I should!

Shows I finally finished/caught up with:

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"I can't be surrounded by your negativity while I'm trying to grow into a fully formed human."

About halfway through "Together," Girls turns itself over to a series of the best scenes it's done yet. It's a far cry from it, but it reminded me at the time of the Sopranos' first season finale, "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano," which similarly wrapped up ( Read more... )