Academia jokes are a hard sell for me, but I cracked up at that guy so excited to meet Mickey and discuss his dissertation on transgender sex workers and the hustler/pimp dialectic. Also, that guy throwing the party was a super good host. Breakfast orders!

This episode was the first to make me lean more towards bipolar, especially from his conversation with Fiona in the kitchen and his comments about the army trying to "control him" and how he's done trying to live the way other people tell him too.

I really wonder what it must be like to work on this show. I mean, it's not like there haven't been newer! hipper! edgier! serial killer shows for years now. . .do they really think Joe Carroll is charismatic enough to inspire a puppy, let alone a cult? Do they think this twins shtick wouldn't have gotten binned by…

Hmm. . .I kind of found myself wondering if Sammi is going to get integrated into the clan as another pair of adult hands (well, comparatively speaking) when she went off to take a shower. Even if only in a DCFS ass-covering way, if they can keep the kid away from the porn for the home visit.

Me too! I have a total weakness for older brother/little sister scenes, and that was stellar.

"Utopian slut palace" was surreal. And not in a good way.

I wouldn't have gotten that if I hadn't had my closed captions on (a drummer moved in to my building.) The captions helpfully told me it as "as Borat."

Yeah, it's weird to me people think it is somehow less creepy now. I honestly felt MORE squicked than I was in his first appearance.

Yeah, I have trouble believing that city councilor in a town the size of Pawnee would ever be a full-time gig in the first place. Although if it is, that gives a little more credence to some of Ron's disgust for the whole damn thing.

My mom predicted Maggie from the beginning. That baby always had violent tendencies.

Peter Pan never exactly seemed benevolent to me, even the watered-down Disney version (let alone the actual book.) It's less a "subversion" (since the subversions on this show tend to be obvious, illogical, or just—not subversive) than something they more or less accidentally got right.
I still want to like this show,…

I'm only 20 minutes in, and I can't get my head around calling this a period piece. It's not just the invented characters or the hottie Nostradamus or the prom dresses; it's pretty much every attitude/character dynamic/line of dialogue. It's not that you can't do period drama or historical fiction about teenagers,…

He has way more charisma in those commericals for Lowe's that run once per episode!  So I would say that it's probably some credit to him that I don't transfer all his Jimmy-dickishness outside of Smash.

I've come round to the point where I'm oddly hypnotized by the lack of movement in Karen's face.  She doesn't even open her mouth very much.

Weirdly, yesterday morning I saw a rerun of the Law and Order episode about the parents who paid to have their comatose daughter impregnated.  (I think it's "Grief.")  Made for kind of a weird theme day.  And yeah, that scene felt very yucky to me—whereas I totally cracked up at silver fox Bradley Whitford sitting…

Last season it would actually make me mad; now I watch with a sort of puzzled fascination as to what new basic story-telling, continuity, and logic errors they can make each time, and in what new ways they can squander their talented cast.  Maybe the move to Saturday will at least let it take its place as a drinking…

I must be a callous Philistine, because I don't think it was all that horrible for Jerry to turn Nick in, since he seems to, you know, be an actual criminal.  Or are they suggesting Evil Ellis framed him?

And a lot of wind machines.

I thought the times Jodie called her usually particularly good.

And Buffy the Vampire Slayer!  "Ew!  He's always on the furniture.  Unsanitary."