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THANK YOU, JIBLINGS! Dan has no idea what he was talking about! But, I heard The Americans is really good so I can't wait to see it.

Rubicon can't hold Carrie Mathison's jock! I mean, seriously, the pilot opens with these guys trying to unravel some kind of secret code found on the front pages of three major newspapers? Firstly, um, get back to your f*&king job because there's terrorists out there, and secondly, huh? If this was answered later in the season, the ponderous scenes and glacial pace made sure I had already checked out.

i can't take your opinions serious, Dan. YOu don't even like Homeland. BAH! lol! jokes...but to each his own. I dig them both. But, I'd take ANYTHING over The Kiling. Yuck

I'd like to see Fincher finish the trilogy, too. I liked his Girl better than the foreign one.

Gotta agree, I'd much rather see Fincher move on.

I found the US-adaptation pretty dull but maybe that's just me.

This is politcal correctness run amok. The interview embarrassed himself with his reponse. What a wuss.

I dunno, I probably would have refused, too. That soundbyte of you saying the n-word will live on context-free for eternity, right after it's played over and over on "Talk Soup." ;-)

It will just be the plotline for an episode of The Newsroom, that's all.

I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, but I think he ruins the nice feeling of the ending by tacking on the outtakes of Melissa McCarthy raging and swearing in a not particularly funny way. He can't let go of that comedy sketch mentality.

Just watched it. Yeah, I laughed a few times. Especially at some of the stuff Rudd said. Still a pass, but I did laugh.

It had some laughs, of course, just...not enough. And too much reliance on improv. I took classes at the UCB Theater in NYC years ago, so I've watched a number of people come up and noticed the influence of improv on tv and features and it's getting out of hand, IMHO. I notice now most of the "tags" on the ends of sitcoms are just actors improv'ing and it often pulls me out because it's not natural to the character or the logic of the show. I get the sense that the sho...

Joel McHale and Patrick Warburton, too. Especially Warburton, hilarious. :-) But I'm still baffled as to why it's the #1 R-rated comedy of all time.

The Killing should have just ended last season. I really don't know what the hell they are going to do with it now. Veena Sud really F'ed up a show that had promise.

Based on AMC's track record with hiring new talent for their shows, the replacement will not be a good one. They hired the guy from Falling Skies to do Hell on Wheels season 3. Falling Skies was a mess and whoever was showrunner needed to be fired, not hired for another series. AMC has been making a lot of questionable calls (esp. in regards to the Killing) to the point where their brand is starting to erode. With Breaking Bad gone after this season and Mad Men the season after this (?),...

Mazzara's one of the best guys I have ever worked with or for before in my career and I know that no matter what, he'll land on his feet and march on. The comment above about him being hired because he was cheap and bottom of the barrel is wrong. He helped helm "The Shield" which was an amazing show and has done other incredible shows before and after that. TWD has had a HUGE pile of turnover from the very first season on...this is just par for the course. Remember the gre...

Ha, yeah I tweeted that yesterday. It's not fair, but it's funny.

My buddy showed me that on FB. I wrote back "Thanks now I hate the movie."

I love those "Honest Trailers" They crack me up.

Unreal. In the best possible way. I love seeing a show that does't bleed viewers over time but instead continues to increase.

It's also proof that most Network TV blows donkey balls

Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain on FX will hopefully bring another quality entry to the genre and could easily pick up this audience. I just finished the first book in the trilogy and if they put enough money into it, it will be the next The Walking Dead.

Does anyone have Halt & Catch Fire?

put it up

Got it, thx.

I'd venture a guess that yes, more BL scripts are from later in the year. But that's because those scripts are fresher on the minds of voters who've read hundreds of scripts over the course of a year.

Then again, I have no hard evidence to back this up. So take it with a grain of salt.

The converse is sometimes true too. You always get a couple high up that didn't necessarily make a splash as specs, because they were quietly set up but then over a period of months passed from person to person until their presence was just ubiquitous. So I'd say it tends to be a mixed bag.

I also know someone who was baffled to be on the list last year because his script was three years old. And wasn't actively submitted anywhere. But just enough voters saw it so...

So a script that comes out in Oct, Nov or maybe even Dec has a chance to place on the list?

Ugh.

I don't see that it's all that different from Fahrenheit 911.

It's made by a superpac as basically a giant commercial. You know, part of the unlimited campaign contributions of citizen corporations.

And Take the Money and Run and Bananas are on my list, too.

Love And Death is my favorite of his old comedies - holds up the best I think. Other favorites of mine that get overlooked: Radio Days and Zelig.

Broadway Danny Rose is on Netflix streaming. It's one of his most overlooked and one of my personal favorites.

Good on him. What great gesture and thing to do to go out of his way for them.

He's such a weirdo that it seems strangely more sincere than if an Anne Hathaway did it.

Or at least a class act when he's not reaming out some poor grip.