Sia really should stop trying so hard to look like she's not trying. I've liked you since Zero 7, sweetheart. Stop shouting at me.

Gee. I don't know now: Is everybody gay? Taylor, Kevin, Eric, Coach Dan, Nate, Andre 3000, the Principal? They all can't be gay. Or can they?

My sympathy for Anne has diminished, as she tears through her son's life, like a bull in a china shop. I agree with her pushing Taylor to report the crime. But a lot of her actions since then have pushed him into a corner. And I think they're more about her and her guilt, than him.

I think Kevin either witnessed, or is culpable of some act here. He just looks too guilty.

I get possessive ex vibes from him.

The poetry slam carried some necessary material, as you said, articulating some of Taylor's feelings. But I thought the whole set-up, with the finger-snapping young people, was a little jarring. Does this still happen anywhere?

Ah, yes. Welcome to Network TV, "skeet."

Emily Bett Rickards appeared to be auditioning for the role of Death in the forever-gestating Sandman movie project. Solid work there, but I'm glad they didn't let this pain-med hallucination business hang around longer than one episode.

I also liked Patty's mentor/protégé relationship with Joe. It got mostly ignored when she took up with Barry, but there was some cute stuff there.

Let that be enough. I'm tired of Barry doing dumb things for dumb reasons. Patty, you're better off.

Stewart started out pretty weak in the interview segments, to the point where I would drift away from the show when they came on.

I don't want to judge Noah too harshly. He's in as untenable a position as there is in show business. But I have to say that I don't seek out the Daily Show like I used to. It doesn't seem as essential anymore.

I had some problems with the episode, but it got the ball rolling again, which is something it needed to do. I thought, like other people, that Mulder tossed aside the belief of years too easily. As for Mulder's interaction with Sveta, I know he engaged in some dicey behavior in the show's first run, but I don't…

Definitely Earth Wind & Fire. Reasons was the prototypical R&B falsetto slow jam of the mid-70's. Listen to the live version on their 1975 album, Gratitude. Not cheesy at all.

I appreciate your defense of the nearly indefensible.

Aubrey Plaza, why? Zac Efron's excreable. DeNiro is inexcusable. But I had hope for you.

Since the entire super-team experience may be new to viewers who aren't comic fans, the key to it is this: You're not gonna like everybody. And everybody is not gonna get developed at the same pace.

Diesel owes Jaa big time, after he pretended to get his ass kicked by the late Paul Walker in Furious 7.

Why has no one said Rick Grimes from the Walking Dead? He's a megalomaniac, a self-righteous jerk, a bad influence on his more level-headed friends, and refuses to take a nuanced view of nearly everything. The show constantly sets up straw men to oppose Rick, but he's nearly always found to be right.

The Carmichael Show is "the most socially conscious sitcom on the air?"