1. Kurtis Blow's Ballers  45.53  (+0.48)

2. Peoria Opies  44.91  (-0.09)

3. Big D's Monsters  44.18  (-1.19)

4. Vandelay Industries  44.10  (-0.88)

5. Mineral Wells Steam  42.20  (-0.48)

6. Noodle Arm Choirboys  40.53  (+0.18)

7. Chalkdust Torturers  39.68  (+0.25)

8. Arnie's Army  39.65  (+0.40)

9. The Catamounts  37.82  (+0.51)

10. LA Kobes  37.71  (-0.23) 

1. Big D's Monsters  45.37  (-0.81)

2. Kurtis Blow's Ballers  45.05  (+0.06)

3. Peoria Opies  45.00  (+0.74)

4. Vandelay Industries  44.98  (+0.76)

5. Mineral Wells Steam  42.68  (+1.03)

6. Noodle Arm Choirboys  40.35  (-1.09)

7. Chalkdust Torturers  39.43  (+0.47)

8. Arnie's Army  39.25  (-0.25)

9. LA Kobes  37.94  (-0.50)

10. The Catamounts  37.31  (-0.39) 

It's been growing and growing for over a year now, and I've just had enough.

I hate EW.com.

For one reason, I hate EW.com because it now has everything that is in the magazine, plus more, for free. Why the hell do I bother subscribing to the magazine? I don't know when our subscription runs out, but I'm already trying to convince my wife to cancel the next time it comes around for renewal.

The other reason is all the dolts who write the TV Watch entries for gobs of shows. They write them for reality shows, which I don't watch, so I don't read. And they write them for certain scripted shows, many of them just pop culture fodder. But then there's the precious few shows they write TV Watches for that I actually watch. And all these writers do is bitch and moan about how terrible the show is. They appear to want every show to cater to their every desire, all the time, with all the characters, and all the nuances and plot twists to please them. And if this doesn't happen, the writers bemoan the awful characters, unsatisfying plot lines, unanswered questions, decor, costumes, time slots, and on and on and on.....

You know what? If these idiots think they're some special critic, I'm here to tell them they aren't. Critics are good when they can see the picture as a whole, and then deconstruct it to point out strong points and flaws. This is more and more apparent because the dolt who has been hammering a show for weeks on end will turn around after one episode and proclaim what a great show this is, that all the plotlines that they've accused of being pointless and meandering now make sense.

A great example of this, especially concerning EW, was the HBO comedy "The Comeback." From the get-go, the official TV critic didn't think much of the show. Then it didn't get any attention from the magazine. Then, at the end of the show, they started writing about what a great show it was. And you know what? All that bad-mouthing and lack of coverage resulted in the show being cancelled. And then the EW morons started lamenting the loss of the greatest show ever to be on television.

So shut up already. TV shows that stretch out over the course of a season, or have continuing plotlines, aren't designed to give the viewer complete and total gratification at the end of each and every episode. If you don't understand that, you're a moron. And you need to shut up.