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The pace of 'Looking' is slow and predictable, the comedy falls flat, and there is no encouragement to keep watching. Honestly the only thing going for this show is that there are gay characters. But that's a novelty and will wear out quickly.

Despite the fact that “After” will likely not be a universal favorite, it was exactly the episode needed to bridge the gap between the destruction of “Too Far Gone” and the individual on-the-run storylines that will likely dominate much of the second half of the season.

This is pretty crazy. When a reporter confuses Samuel Jackson for Laurence Fishburne, Nick Fury gives him a drilling he'll never forget.

Overall, I give Season 3 of Sherlock five stars. With some minor faults in the episodes, the overall arc of the season showed something amazing: Sherlock Holmes’ heart. The season was about emotion over intellect. Sherlock Holmes may be a “high-functioning sociopath” but clearly he has learned to love.

Read all the how-to books you want, but the best way to learn fiction writing is by studying the masters. Whether you’re writing novels or screenplays, there’s a lot to learn from the modern masters of TV writing. Here are eighteen of the best TV shows to study, listed with the characteristic that stands out the strongest in their writing.

The Sign Of Three takes a risk by being the most comedic episode of Sherlock. The episode has laughs all over the place mixed liberally with sentimental feelings and a small pinch of a dramatic moment.

In this episode of Marvel's Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., Hulk thinks Galactus is coming to Earth to consume it. but Galactus is really in search of a new herald and guess who he thinks it should be?

So a couple writers on Vice.com are proposing that the sitcom Friends "created a generation of neurotic, self obsessed idiots." I'm not sure Friends could be singled out as the catalyst for millennial self obsession, but I'm inclined to agree that it managed to throw its hat in the ring.

Sherlock, the popular BBC series, comes back in a bold way after a two-year hiatus, and it's truly brilliant to have the show back.

The duty of an artist, if there even is one, is to be honest and true to her own story, not to be true to *your* story. If the story she creates doesn't contain much of you, that's because there *isn't* much of you in her actual life, like it or not. To fault 'Girls' for that is to confuse the work of art with the social reality it is depicting.

Girls does something many shows have done before: present a set of characters whose personality and choices are rarely admirable or at times even forgivable, and still craft a world where we care about what happens to them and agree to follow their comical/tragic misteps.

HitRECord stands out as fresh, original and clever, and Gordon-Levitt proves to be one hell of a host. More than anything, it is his presence as host that makes the show so promising.

If you're a fan of FX series Archer, one of the funniest animated series on TV right now, Splitsider does a great interview with creator Adam Reed. If you haven't seen the series as of yet, here's a great video highlighting some of the funnier bits so far.

HBO took the first big night in television of the new year (football, Golden Globes) to drop an extended trailer for Season 4 of Game of Thrones. And everyone from the Wall to Slaver's Bay is getting hot in their chain mail.

Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a brilliant idea. The recipe practically screamed success. But as the show progressed, it turned out to be a disappointment. One of the biggest reasons is the way the character of Skye is such an annoying Mary Sue.