Dear Colbert Report:

This is basically the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.

Dear Studio 60:

Thanks for making an episode that wasn’t actually about how great you are. The show works a lot better when it’s about the interesting characters played by talented actors and their foibles than when it’s about how smart everyone on your show is compared to everyone else in the entire world. Also, it’s smart to not show any more than tiny snippets of the show-within-a-show, because honestly, I think the entire world is unanimous that the show works better when can imagine that Matt’s writing the actual best comedy show ever, rather than showing concrete evidence that he’s not in fact a genius. Things like “Meet the Press with Juliette Lewis” are much funnier as titles than as actual sketches that we have to watch parts of. I hope this is the direction you’re going to continue taking, because even if you aren’t the greatest show to grace television, you can be pretty good if you get your head out of your own ass.

Dear Battlestar Galactica:

Thanks for being totally awesome. I like that the whole Cylon occupation plot where we’re cheering for the insurgency obviously echoes Iraq, but that the show doesn’t have a really facile political point to make. Also, the whole Starbuck-trapped-in-a-domestic-prison storyline is, like all the other stories, great as allegory because it’s actually about the character and not about being allegory, if you know what I mean.

Dear Gilmore Girls:

A lot of people have talked about the drop in quality in the past season or so, and I have to agree with them. I’ve kept watching out of loyalty, and also because I would watch Lauren Graham read the phone book every Tuesday. The Luke’s daughter storyline seemed below the show from the get-go and honestly, Luke’s speech about how insecure he was about Lorelai being in his daughter’s life was too little too late in terms of explaining what had happened between them. After waiting so long to get them together, you really owed your viewers something more. Also, I hate Logan so, so much. But I’ve really enjoyed the way the new showrunner’s handled the whole thing: that scene from last week’s episode where they run into each other at the grocery store and Luke is all: “You go back to being Lorelai Gilmore, and I’ll go back to being the guy that serves you coffee”? Actually broke my heart. So sad. Keep it up, Gilmores, even though I kind of still don’t like Christopher.

Dear Veronica Mars:

Oh man, you are so awesome. You are handling the college transition so much better than Buffy. Also, Piz already has 100X more personality than Riley. And he wasn’t even on the show this week. (Seriously, psyched. But if it turns out that the bitter feminist who was driving the “safe ride home” car is somehow involved in the rape, I am going to be really mad at Rob Thomas.) Also, Rider Strong? How did you get him? And did you style him to look exactly like he did on Boy Meets World on purpose? Because if you did, awesome: I think the fact that it was Shawn Hunter the Nazi security guard made the whole thing that much more effective (not that his acting was great or anything); you’ve always been good about using your actors.

Dear Heroes:

I didn’t think I was going to like you, because I thought you looked pretentious in the bad way, not in the way that I like, but I watched you when you were on before Studio 60 and you are strangely compelling despite your pacing problems and the fact that one of your stars is Jess. Seriously though, the autopsy table — I was not prepared for that.