Vanessa Becknell, 03/13/12

TV and Film Department Editor, The Donnybrook Writing Academy

We saw a perfect mix of compelling dialogue and intense action last night, and more screen time for characters we've wanted to see.

Derek Hough, 03/12/12

Dancer and choreographer

It's going to be tough. Your muscles will ache, you will get plenty of bumps and bruises, and you may even cry (this actually sounds really awful). But I can't tell you how excited I am to see your face when the music stops and we have completed our first official dance together.

John Polly, 03/13/12

Editor-at-large, Logo's NewNowNext.com; co-host, 'Drag Ya Later with Jon & John'

Morgan Glennon, 03/13/12

Journalist, freelance writer

Instead of ignoring a character's irritating attributes, sometimes shows just turn right into the skid. When the narrative acknowledges flaws, those same flaws can become endearing parts of what make a character great.

Trey Ellis, 03/13/12

Novelist, Screenwriter, and Associate Professor at Columbia University

We've always been attacked by the closed-minded on both sides who refuse to understand that although the world itself is not yet "post-racial," popular culture has been so for years.

Lisa Belkin, 03/12/12

Senior Columnist on Life/Work/Family, Huffington Post

Huggies says it set out to "celebrate" dad. Instead it insulted them. Do "real men" change diapers?

Quora, 03/12/12

Connecting you to everything you want to know about

Hunger Games stands out from the pack because it has evocative themes that touch upon our deepest concerns about humanity. I'd go as far to say that Hunger Games is a darkly mature series with teenager characters.

Greg Perreault, 03/13/12

Doctoral Student, University of Missouri

As game technology has increased and censorship decreased, so has its ability to tell a story. Now, game developers are tapping into the great conversations of Western civilization. The role of religion in games can't be ignored.

Felix Sanchez, 03/12/12

Chairman and Co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts

¡Q'Viva! The Chosen is a historic media moment in time: the first seamlessly bilingual show that presents entertainment and information to a general audience, not simply to a target audience.

Youyoung Lee, 03/12/12

Editor, Huffington Post Celebrity

Much of what angers the women on The Bachelor about Courtney is a sense of brutal injustice. But what these girls fail to realize is that the rules that govern them on The Bachelor are as arbitrary as Ben's middle-part haircut.

Geoffrey Dunn, 03/11/12

Author, 'The Lies of Sarah Palin'

Few made-for-television movies have arrived with the amount of fanfare, anticipation and attendant hyperbole as has HBO's political docudrama Game Change. Almost as soon as the HBO production was announced, critics began taking potshots at it.

Nick Sagan, 03/12/12

Author, "Idlewild Trilogy"

With so many places for life to exist, we may be closer to finding E.T. than ever before. Imagine what we'd glean from that encounter. How much more we'll come to know -- not only about life in the cosmos but also about ourselves.

Mark Joseph, 03/11/12

Producer, author, talk show host, and publisher of Bullypulpit.com

Conservatives may be upset with various details that they believe HBO got wrong in the Sarah Palin portrayal in Game Change, but one detail that the network got right was its portrayal of McCain as a cynical man devoid of common sense and sincerity.

Patrick Morrison, 03/09/12

Slavic Studies student, Wayne State University

One of the questions I get most about my Jeopardy experience is, "What's Alex Trebek like, and why doesn't he have a mustache anymore?" I confess that I struggle to answer both questions with any degree of certainty.

Shira Lazar, 03/12/12

Co-Founder, WhatsTrending.com

Walt Hawkins, 03/08/12

Writer

I would wholeheartedly encourage Kirk Cameron and his ilk to, as publicly as possible, keep lying, judging, proselytizing, and misrepresenting. I want them to continue flaunting and exposing the sheer ugliness of conservative Christianity. And we, in turn, will continue to respond.

Lauren Ashburn, 03/09/12

Founder and Editor-in-Chief www.daily-download.com

The politics of celebrity -- the sexy candidate phenomenon -- leapt from the big screen to the campaign trail. Many seem to presume that a charismatic candidate is automatically capable of being a great leader. That's a formula for success in Hollywood, but is it right for American politics?

Katie Stroh, 03/09/12

Life & Arts editor of the University of Texas at Austin's The Daily Texan

Women's friendships can be some the most abiding and intimate relationships they will ever forge. So where are all the nuanced, honest depictions of female friendships on TV?

Christopher Lamb, 03/08/12

Professor of communications, College of Charleston; author, 'The Sound and Fury of Sarah Palin'

There is no other contemporary politician in the United States who reveals more about the sound and fury of the far right than Sarah Palin. Palin is nearly as important to our time as U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy was to the 1950s.