About Shapiro, exactly.

The narrator was on fire tonight.

Oh, definitely (I've run through several, too); I think that's part of why it bugs me seeing it played for comedy or as no big deal/silly bureaucratic rules it's fine (and sexy) to ignore.

I'm pretty sure in the first episode they had a line about him being in prison for fifteen years which a) is complete nonsense in terms of the timeline/case and b) does kind of come off as retaliation for the actor leaving, since it would have been incredibly easy from a plausibility perspective to just have him be…

Probably not, but it's also not appropriate for Chuck not to have recused himself long ago, so whatever. (Also, therapists on TV are almost universally incompetent/unethical—at best they have horrible boundaries and projection issues; at worst they're outright destructive or abusive.)

The consequence isn't supposed to be for him. Professors are the ones who have an obligation/duty not to sleep with their students. It might be bad judgment, but it's not per se unethical on his part.

The combination of his brief moment of empathy with Carl and then picking lice out of Fiona's hair was about five times more interesting than anything else he's done, IMO. (Of course, 5 x 0.01 is still pretty dull.)

That was what I thought in the previews last week, and this week did nothing to prove me wrong. It's beyond idiotic for the school to do this, from a PR standpoint. Especially if we accept the story was big enough to make it to Gawker in the first place, it would be ridiculously easy for them to make the school look…

Everything about this sounds awful, but somehow that all-white suit and vague sneer is the most attractive I've ever found him.

Honestly, I'm surprised when I see a therapist on a TV show who ISN'T a horrible failure of basic ethics and boundaries.

I did kind of feel like there was a thrilling mug-off going on between Nathan Lane's whole face and John Travolta's eyebrows. (I say this with total affection for Lane.)

I've always kind of wanted to see him on stage, because of his involvement with the Lookingglass Theater in Chicago—I feel like he might be really suited for theater and the Ross-ness/lack of close-ups would help. I sometimes find him a little too—sad puppy?—in close-up but I feel like it would be more naturalistic…

It makes me sad in the sense that they were one of my favorite couples (and I would watch a show about Mickey, Ian and Svetlana living together and raising Yvegeny forever), but the break-up—and most of what Ian did before and afterwards—seemed completely realistic to me in my anecdotal experience in the category…

Thus resulting in a word where "American Pie" doesn't get stuck in my head at random?

And really he just wanted to read. :(

Yeah, Erica adopting the baby would be ridiculously copping out, I think. It would be way too much of a magical solution for Debbie, which is pretty much the opposite of her whole freaking character arc. (Plus, it's not like remission means instantly feeling awesome, and she has 3 fairly young kids, 2 of whom at…

It's funny you bring up the question of "truth" in this show, because pretty much every week I read the recaps and I think you must see it much more literally than I do. I've been saying all season that Ethan Cutkosky has been playing up quiet moments that underline the arrested development beneath his swagger—his…

And there's a story she told on a live episode of This American Life about going to an emergency room where there were just unwrapped muffins lying around all over which kills me.

He likes when they chop the heads off.

I'd forgotten that, but honestly, it's both perfectly in character and also totally off the wall and presumptuous for Rogelio to just decide Xo's age isn't a real issue. I don't think he can just #fertility #rovulation (and most of the options are going to be a LOT harder on the female partner, so again, nice for…