Stanley Fish’s blog for the New York Times unfurls the most idiotic piece of TV criticism so far in 2009:

“Big Love” is the new “Waltons.” It gives more scope to the travails than to the lesson, but the lesson is there, and it is the same one: loyalty, solidarity, love. Indeed, it would be entirely appropriate for the newer series to pay tribute to the older one and end each episode with a round-robin of “good nights.”

Poor Earl Hamner must reply! I don’t recall the season in which John-Boy shacks up with three wives.