I understand the complaints about Joe. I started watching this show when it aired its pilot, same summer that another show premiered, The Leftovers, and had a similarly inconsistent first season. Similarly as well, they both improved dramatically in their second seasons. Part of that to me was experimenting with Joe,…

I liked Phil's reviews better, he really got this show. But this was good too, and I'm glad you could see the brilliance between some of the issues you had with it. Can't wait for next week.

This show is going out on such a wonderful high note, when it could have succumbed to the late season blues that Networks shows so often do. But they kept one step above and never stopped innovating; sacrificing lambs; creating new enemies; and building the various myths which inform our comrades.

I assure you, John McCain is very real…

Yeah, that wasn't a matter of soliciting and illegality like the Bus thing (which absolutely was soliciting), it seemed more like it was because they had cultivated a certain image and didn't feel that Jimmy's more emotionally poignant ad fit their brand, which is apparently very boring and has a bad taste in…

Right, I mean its most likely a combination of factors, as with most things in life I'm sure there are several answers, and this show knows how to be true to life, brutally so.

Totally, I was going off the reviewer's somewhat decisive interpretation, but you're right, I shouldn't get ahead of myself, or this show's amazing ability to adjust and reformat itself.

The observation that Mike's daughter, too, is conning and manipulating and is actually kind of a terrible person, at least in the way she uses Mike's fatherly guilt, was really on point. I was framing her behavior in my mind before reading this more as a mental instability thing, like she was becoming paranoid and…

"…the money that Jimmy took was money his dad had already given away. He wouldn't have missed it because he didn't know it was supposed to even be in the register"

Your reviews are marvelous; this show is one of a handful that, in the wrong critical hands, could be completely misinterpreted in the course of a season-long arc of reviews. It's such a careful and subtle show, much more so than Breaking Bad, at least in my opinion (no offense to BB, just a much different approach to…

I had to rewind twice to confirm. That was the best thing about the episode. Good ep.

Book em on one count of bein' a Bear…

Is it a product of "Peak TV" or have the Networks always cranked out this many new and terrible sounding shows every Fall and Midseason?

I mean, sure, I guess my point was a bit silly, but I just thought those shows were both much better than the AV Club decided, especially The Brink, which I really liked.

YES! (as in yes i agree)

He was indeed, never really gave the show a chance.

HA ya know, I've been too afraid to mention anything bad about Master of None, fearing the enthusiasm of EVERYONE EVERYWHERE. I wouldn't include it here, but I really didn't think it was better than other Cable/streaming dramedies of that sort (Married, You're The Worst, Casual).

People give Broadcast Sitcoms too much leeway. The Comedians wasn't amazing, but I consistently laughed throughout watching it and really enjoyed the performances.

There were so many terrible Network shows this year, and they go after The Brink and The Comedians? I enjoyed every moment of The Brink, and I don't think it ever was trying to be anything other than a pretty goofy show driven by the manic pace of the events and dialogue. It moved like the wind, so I have no idea what…

It did look like AIDS, but then I was like "oh right, that devastating nightmare of a condition is not among the plethora that haunted us around 1900, that somehow is only 30 years old". In any case, ruling out AIDS means those marks were definitely cancer. Appropriate ending for the always-already doomed Mr. Barrow.