A couple years ago I saw her do a joint show with Jill Sobule, and they were awesome together. (I mostly went to see Jill—I was a little young for when Julia Sweeney was on SNL for it to make too much impression on me, but she was great.)

It's as if every actor was posed in the most obnoxious way possible for that shot, except possibly the woman with her back to the camera.

I agree—I felt increasingly Lily didn't get significant growth, and even stories within the coupling didn't always get weighted enough to her (like anything related to her massive and secret credit card debts.) I also felt in general even within relationship plots after the first couple of seasons and the big San…

the fact that Lifetime must have blown the budget on the soundtrack and
therefore could only afford to hire a blind casting director

This is one of my all-time favorite episodes. I sometimes repeat "It's not your fault, it's just a bird thing, you don't control the birds, you will someday, but not now," as a soothing mantra.

I don't have a huge amount of time more to spend on this, but I will attempt to do a brief flyover:

Please feel free to stop condescendingly offering me good luck or speculating on my lack of intuition. If you think "only" rapists say those kinds of things, you must live on another planet (and I skipped entirely being too fat/ugly to be raped.) A fucking POLICE DETECTIVE my friends she should think hard about if…

Which is when it's too late. And when everyone and his brother will feel entitled to go over every aspect of your personal life, wardrobe, sexual history, psychological state, use of alcohol, and so on, and debate whether you sent "mixed messages," or if you flirted with him/dated him/slept with him before so why not…

Wow, I'm totally heartbroken someone who thinks forcing unwanted kisses on someone is merely "awkward" disapproves of me. I'm missing such a catch!

Oh good, I'm so glad a man is here to tell me what I shouldn't be insulted by! Of course, it's just "awkward" when a guy disregards you saying you aren't interested because he obviously knows what you want better than you do, and pushes into your physical space while you repeatedly say no, wince, and cringe away.

She did say she wasn't interested in him, and he said he didn't believe her. Repeatedly. The idea that doing that is "asserting" himself is gross. It also violates one of the basic truths—if a guy disregards the first time you say no, even if it's about something "little" why the fuck should you expect that he'll…

That's the POINT. Todd is asserting that we "know" Louis is a lovable doof, therefore he cannot be a rapist (or commit sexual assault, or use the implied threat of violence to coerce a kiss) because lovable doofs don't do that, and Louis is a lovable doof, so therefore he didn't do that, despite what we saw on…

Biting off more than you can chew, I think—having ambitions greater than your ability to execute. Metaphorically going crazy at the buffet and not being able to eat all you took.

I'm rereading Todd's part of the review, and there are two sentences that leap out at me:

Ugh (to the story, despite my inherent aversion to all things Gawker.)

If the show really is going to interrogate what happened with Pamela, it seems weird to me to have already used that center stand-up monologue about women and God almost word for word on SNL. Then again, I'm still REALLY bugged by a line in one of his stand-up bits a few episodes back (I think it was So Did the Fat…

I'm committed,against my natural inclinations both historic and aesthetic, to watching this because I'm acquainted with the gentleman playing young Roosevelt. (I hope he got paid well.)

It's like the end of Hamlet up in here.

At first I just saw that big table and thought they had stuck the Hecks in a conference room to camp out!

Yeah, I found it actually more stressful to watch than enjoyable. That may speak highly of how well-executed it was, but it's the kind of episode I would probably skip in syndication because it was more uncomfortable than funny to me.