You guys should really coordinate your Festivus posts and your 'Top TV News Stories' posts. This is at least the second double-up on topic. Merry Christmas!

So say we all.

Six years a fan and I never said it. Happy Festivus.

Basic terminology fail. Blogging forever.

I think TVSquad bloggers now let Joel fight their battles for them. Look around other Weblogs, Inc. sites and see if they get such abuse. When you've noticed that they don't, perhaps it's not the people visiting the site that have the problem.

Having Rena Sofer join the cast of a television show that relies largely on the brilliant chemistry between the characters?

Did wonders for Just Shoot Me, so bring it on! Sofer Curse be damned!

I can't believe nobody else has noticed that for the first episode of this, Monk's final season, they got Rena Sofer to guest star. It's widely suggested that Rena Sofer is the harbinger of death for television shows, so they probably sought her out for this episode. I thought that was the funniest part of this hilarious premiere. You'll be missed, Mr. Monk.

I think Hung will always refrain from showing Jane's penis, as it's just funnier to use your imagination to think of how ridiculously large it is, depending on the situation and reaction.

Monika,

I fail to see how any of this is exclusively 'female-oriented'. For instance, it's not as though Streep's part has been pushed to the sidelines for a mediocre male performance or an uninteresting storyline with a male protagonist. Everything you've said is universally applicable to movies in general. Fantastic male performances are often as supporting roles, or 'scene-stealers', but you haven't cried foul of these films. Once again, I feel that your article fails to life up to its original premise and is instead just taking a limited view on a greater fact of cinema to imply some degree of sexism.

If you were to write an article on 'scene-stealers' in general, you'd be quickly informed in the responses that the reason this happens is often because the story being told is such that the supporting character is NOT the focus. And we'd all comment on our favourite scene stealing actors and performances. By limiting your view to just women, you're simply reinforcing any inequalities.

This is really gripping TV that's firing on all cylinders. Not a moment's downtime in this show!

This is the HBO I could become accustomed to.

'née' only means 'AKA' in the context of changed names, not job titles. It gives the real name of the person in question. There are subtly different uses for all of them that should be preserved instead of 'Modern blah blah' cop-out face saving gestures.