Yeah, I think Barry’s dream of a “happily ever after” is definitely a fantasy that will never truly be possible, and I respect the showrunners for recognizing this. The only way to truly have Barry come back will be for him to take responsibility for his actions and pay the price for them. By trying to just “walk…

If we hadn’t already had a Pontiac Bandit appearance this year, I would have sworn that Doug Judy would show up with a Slim Jim to rescue the gift bags. I’m half surprised that Jake didn’t at least consider giving Doug a call.

Also, last week’s cold open saw Guilfoyle say after Monica’s departure: “Well, the only one of us that we don’t spend 20 hours a day with just left so...” If nothing else, he enjoys conversation with her.

Is Barry a bad person? Yeah, I think so. However, his guilt and capacity for remorse mean that he has the possibility to be a better person. Compare this to say, NoHo Hank or Taylor or Fuches, who do similar things to Barry but feel no sense of remorse or guilt, and you get the sense that Barry could change for the…

Wait, are we sure it was Paxton and not Pullman?

And look at the job the bullpen did to lose that one, too!

I feel like Jake would have enjoyed it more if Boyle could have been with him while he solved it.

I will sometimes ask “What is your favorite item on the menu?” I then will order their answer, mostly because the worst case scenario is that I had something that wasn’t to my taste, but I’ve had an adventure. The best case scenario is that I have discovered something that maybe I wouldn’t have picked out for myself,…

Regarding the Jeopardy scene, “Leonard” was one of my English professors in college. He taught Ron Shelton film as literature, which is why he was in that scene. Even though he’s retired, he’s still a fixture on campus, and he curates a film festival in town.

I think that examples like Ex Machina and the current Westworld argue primarily that a true AI would deserve moral consideration that we generally do not give to machines. After all, if we develop a truly conscious AI, and then immediately use it to do our labor, it is only a matter of time before it justifiably…

Oh, I don’t know. There’s some darkness to Winnie the Bish. After all, his first response to Nick’s news about the editor’s feedback was “I’ll kill ‘em!” Furthermore, this is a man who thinks setting a wild badger loose in the air vents above a wedding is a classic prank. His heart beats to the rhythm of murder.

That was my question, too! Either that or it’s a weird doppelgänger situation.

Yeah, I felt a little uncomfortable about that, as well. As a lapsed Christian, I’ve always been bugged by the persecution complex one finds in many church-goers. It’s worse when a show that brings me a lot of laughter gives them further ammunition.

He’d clearly exposed a crucial design flaw.

Well that’ll teach me to misread a comment! D’oh! My bad!

The article also never says which major news conglomerates condemn baby-eating, so by that logic, we have to assume that all of them condone it.

Warburton? SIGN ME UP!

I mean, yeah, I’m not arguing that any hack with a word processor will one day be regarded as high art. Mostly what I’m getting at is that it is difficult to predict what scholars of the future will determine is high art, so the best course of action for a creator is just to not worry about whether or not it will be…

I mean, in his day, Shakespeare was regarded as a potboiler hack who made popular entertainment for the masses. Today, though, we use “Shakespearean” to describe narrative rife with drama, tragedy, and gravitas. I think part of it is that over time, these pieces of culture get further analyzed and understood, and new…

True story. Anti-depressants are not some sort of mental health easy-mode. You still have to do the work to take care of your mental health. They just make it so that your brain will let you.