For reasons he can't begin to justify or explain (and yet somehow does), Reihan Salam at The American Scene stayed up incredibly late Tuesday night to write a column -- and he wound up watching all 20 installments of the WB's new web series, Rockville, CA.

"Wow," he writes. "That's really embarrassing."

And how. I haven't seen the show, but Reihan's post -- which is really quite long -- delves into the particulars of what sounds like a uniquely irritating program. On the upside, it has Veronica Mars and Freaks and Geeks-ties, so I'm sure it will make Nathan happy.