<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Breaking Better]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png"><img data-attachment-id="227756" data-permalink="https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/03/25/breaking-better/graphtv-breaking-bad/" data-orig-file="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png?w=580&#038;h=363" data-orig-size="1910,1198" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="GraphTV &#8211; Breaking Bad" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png?w=580&#038;h=363?w=300" data-large-file="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png?w=580&#038;h=363?w=1024" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-227756" src="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png?w=580&#038;h=363" alt="GraphTV - Breaking Bad" width="580" height="363" srcset="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png?w=580&amp;h=363 580w, https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png?w=1157&amp;h=726 1157w, https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png?w=150&amp;h=94 150w, https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png?w=300&amp;h=188 300w, https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png?w=768&amp;h=482 768w, https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/graphtv-breaking-bad.png?w=1024&amp;h=642 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" /></a></p>
<p>Dan Selcke <a href="http://www.avclub.com/article/website-turns-any-tv-show-chart-revolutionizes-arg-202409">introduces</a> a new graphing tool:</p>
<blockquote><p>Arguing the merits and demerits of a favorite TV show is an exercise plagued with uncertainty. What some viewers see as a well-developed, three-dimensional character, others may see as a grating waste of space, and one person’s daring plot twist is another person’s nonsensical cop-out.</p>
<p>With <a href="http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/" target="_blank">Graph TV</a>, this is no longer a problem. The website, created by software engineer <a href="http://kevinformatics.com/" target="_blank">Kevin Wu</a>, looks up the IMDB user ratings for every episode of a given TV show and turns them into points on simple graphs that show the ebb and flow of public opinion over the course of a series. Each season of the show is coded with a different color, so users can see, for example, which seasons of <i>Dexter</i> <a href="http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0773262">received</a> more praise as they went on and which ones tumbled down the Y-axis faster than an Olympic bobsled team with nothing left to lose.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Walking-Dead-Season-Blu-ray/dp/B0049P1ZZQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00IHMWZU6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thdi09-20"><em>The Walking Dead</em></a>&#8216;s inconsistency is charted below:</p>
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