I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.

I love commercials. I love to hate commercials, too. I talk back to them.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

Whenever people ask me if it's okay to stop watching "The Leftovers," I always say OF COURSE IT IS.

I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze.

I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic.

There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all big-talker shows that bring their heavy cargo in for a rough and breathlessly observed landing, 'Breaking Bad' didn’t quite leave itself enough runway to satisfactorily end some of its better story lines, especially once the chronology gap closed up between the flash-forwards from last year’s episodes and Sunday night’s conclusion. One could easily argue that there was just too much left to do in this one episode.