I kind of feel like I'm getting "over" Ron Swanson, which is depressing because I had him picked out as The One To Watch ever since the pilot episode, but he's just been too cartoony for me the past couple of weeks. Hopefully they can still turn it around, but the complaint letter stuff last week and the…

The costumes were great, and assured me that somewhere there is some document detailing all the finer points of each caste and how they all work together.

I thought tonight’s episode was a little bit overstuffed, plot wise. I would’ve liked to see maybe one more step before total class division dystopia, and I could’ve probably spent a whole episode on revolutionary dictator Britta (even if the mustard runner never quite landed for me). Mitch Hurwitz was absolutely…

Kathy Bates, Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth were a pretty good try, in a different way, though.

Can I cover the Tim Rice beat on your new ALW site, Todd?

With The Neighbors, the Fox comedies and Hannibal I have a nearly full viewing night on Friday across 3 different networks. I'm not sure I'm ENTIRELY thrilled by this development.

I'm not sure how seriously to take Sports Illustrated's entertainment reporting for many reasons, but they say it's not happening: http://tracking.si.com/2014…

Those "pranks" are so terrible and are designed to be talked about on internet news digests and morning "news" shows. "That Jimmy Kimmel's done it again!"

Well, Fallon isn't necessarily going for HARD comedy with all his stuff, more joyful "Look at this silly stuff we can do! Let's crack eggs on our heads and play charades!" Which is a style I can usually enjoy and seems like a good fit for Tonight.

Yeah, that thing where Fallon said Leno told him to make his monologue longer was frustrating to see as an example of good advice. Ferguson's the only one who really has a regularly worthwhile monologue, I think, though I'll be interested to see what Seth Meyers ends up with.

I like Fallon fine, and wish him well, and I'm glad that there's something I don't mind watching on at 11:30 right now. Letterman's show has SO much padding these days, with endless set-ups for one joke videos and an audience that applauds for 20 seconds after Every. Single. Monologue joke.

I kind of want to find out that it shares continuity with The West Wing universe and something has gone horribly wrong in the intervening years.

I hope this entire series is just Frank accumulating more and more power.
Season 7:
"Sir, you're already in control of all of North America, AND you're the Pope! Why take on Africa?"
Frank: "I WILL DESTROY YOU!"

I did notice, and I don't know if this was intentional or not, that with the exception of Bosch, if you had to pick a character who was "The Lead" in pretty much all of these, it would be a woman, which is nice to see.

Huh I guess I was counting by opening numbers, and forgot he wasn't in it when he did his first one. I am shamed.

He'll actually overtake NPH, who has hosted 3 times, with a brief gap between years 1 and 2 when Sean Hayes was available.

With this and the Ray evaluation of Marnie last week, they're doing like one of these an episode and I don't know how I feel about it.

Marnie and Ray are going to stay forever together and eventually turn into The Lockhorns and I love it.

If I want to get technical I could quibble with your "first time not being 4 comedies into a drama" by talking about Outsourced and the Paul Reiser show or Rock Center, but I'm not sure those things all actually existed.

According to his Twitter he just wrote the first 5 and the rest were added by kids, so he's just a different kind of lazy, I guess? https://twitter.com/sirtimr…