Pajiba

I haven't even heard of five of the shows in the "Like" category. Top Shot? There's a show called Top Shot? That's begging for a clever joke I'm not smart enough to come up with. The Middle is pretty funny and Top Gear is hilarious.

On the other side, I have a hard time believing that more than 5 people know there is a show called TMZ. I know I try to forget there's a show like that.

Knocking that coffee out of her damn face almost makes me want to start watching Weeds again. It's too bad she still managed to have the straw annoyingly sticking out of the side of her face.

I'll bet her lips have callouses from sucking non-stop on that straw for six straight seasons.

That sounded dirtier than I meant it.

And now I know why Jay "The Chin That Walked Like A Man" Leno is still on TV.

Wait. I can see how they may not like Bridezillas, what with the abundance of trailer trash not helping Republican stereotypes, but My Fair Wedding?? WTF! That show is hilarious, sweet, beautiful, and fun. This proves it, these people have no soul.

Debra Morgan is pretty much the only reason I'm still watching Dexter because the show stopped being interesting after season 2 when they killed Doakes.

Do you think they like Top Gear because it's about cars or because Jeremy Clarkson is the most obnoxious conservative asshole currently breathing air on this planet?

YES, Deb Morgan is the only reason to watch Dexter. But John, NOBODY liked Doakes. Catapulting his flaming torso from that burning shed was the most righteous thing they've done in 6 seasons (other than Trinity whacking Rita, of course).

Pajiba should start a new political party. The "Good Television" Party. The GTP. Where the whole point is to get someone in the white house and then make sure that all the good tv gets six seasons and a movie and all the bad tv gets cancelled. And if somebody didn't want to watch the good tv they'd get tossed into a cell and forced to... Wow. That got very 1984 very quickly and it was all in my head. Yikes.

Good grief. Those Family Guy/Star Wars things were god awful. At least my husband got a solid laugh out of Peter flashing his arse when frozen in carbonite.

I think I've seen you write that "NOBODY likes Doakes" before, beet salad. I don't understand why you say that. I always hear people say they miss Doakes. The show went downhill after his character was gone. He was the only cop smart and determined enough to pose much of a threat to Dexter.

I haven't done a poll, but I'm fairly certain you're dead wrong and that the majority of people liked Doakes for all the tension he brought to the show.

Doakes wasn't written to be likeable, but I definitely missed him. In addition to the visible tension, he also provided a contrast that seemed to diminish in subsequent seasons- justice vs vigilantism. Part of the shows appeal to me was the way it inverted the cop show tropes; in particular that of the hardass, "justice first, screw the rulebook" cop who is typically elevated to hero but here as the villain.

Doakes' presence at least forced a question about whether sympathies should rest with a serial killer, however genial he may be and how guilty the perpetrators he punishes. Which side would you be on if you discovered that was happening at your local police department- the vigilante killer with apparently infallible detection skills or the cop who pursues justice aggressively, but (mostly) within the bounds of the law?

Great thank you for writing that to us.