It's hard to appreciate the nuance when those cliche cringeworthy jokes have been a staple of comedy for most of my life—-upsetting and boring at the same time. If they want to satirize slimy comics, wish they'd get brave & pick a current "equal opportunity offender"/offensive comic —-even one with actual power &…

Genuinely curious how Eli's daughter is "pretty Jewish." She is brash and self-confident("boss", but so are Alicia and Grace and Diane and so were the female assistant DAs past seasons. Lots of bold women on TGW. A few opposing female attorneys & Elspeth the quirky are less direct & more apt to use…

Which is mainly brought up in association with an undeveloped phrase about Israel , or in this episode, his nemesis' use of a yiddish word to describe his father's business.

Again, yes, she's wonderful, but she didn't write that line. Let's give some credit to the writers contributions to building a character as well as the actors.

Yes, one of the brilliant if subtler victories is showing how people who speak English as a second language can add to it and/or highlight its quirks & "rules" of usage. Jessica uses English with speed and facility, but sometimes in new ways.Similar to how Louis with his keen eye for American culture has the skills to…

Cute but so generic—could be in any sitcom.

If mall party was Saturday, it was Sunday morning.

Not overthinking if you were trained as a kid to do automatic math(figuring out change, etc. in your head). But if his mall party was indeed on Saturday, and for sure the sleepover at Dave's was that same night, it would have been Sunday morning.

She does a great deadpan, but she didn't write that line, so please give the writers credit for shouting out to a iconic film classic much older & much less currently hyped to then Star Wars: The Red Balloon!
And The Red Balloon is not even being currently hypermarketed by the parent company of the network! Did…

If he was orating, it would be an oration, so berating could certainly be a beration.

Better than scenester carpentry, where you just build sets to look cool.

I loved this episode because it built on & developed the plot instead of wheelspinning like most sitcoms and because it's so representative, down to the last extra of 21st century SoCal. If I didn't live here it would make me homesick for the faces, the foothills, and food. Also love that there is zero slutshaming,…

It seems like by "Begin at the beginning" you mean "Cut to the chase."

Yes, the opposition campaign attack ad's tag line is "He chose prostitutes over patriots."

Yes, they really missed the opportunity to show that Cary had learned and grown from all his tribulation, imprisonment, close relationships at work with strong woman & woman of color, and close interpersonal relationships with women of color. After starting a firm with Alicia they brought him back to the callow…

Howard Lyman represents a stereotype, and he is the only labelled Jewish person among the characters. He considers himself a victim and is at best condescending/patronizing to most everyone he doesn't consider his equal because they don't have his pedigree of ancestral oppression, his seniority and/or his masculine…

And the rapt auditorium of cowed students admiring the Great Man, who'd just been officially declared a feminist icon!! I had hoped at least they'd have had the wife be the true author of his acclaimed novels.

Great direction, earned ominousness. characters who sounded different from one another, well-edited dialogue instead of monologues, effective acting from all—-and that shot of Olivia at the center of the Oval office, running the country……so right!!! That's the show I want to see!!

Tho haven't companions tried to tone him down/apologize for him/teach him "social skills," ala clara with that less blunt phrase cheat sheet earlier in this season?

I pick Koreans, Salvadoreans , Ethiopians, Vietnamese, Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese and Nigerians all of whom have made good progress "assimilating" into as well as contributing to the local culture here in Cali. The Russians, Iranians and Armenians not so much.