That was the funniest Lasso of Truth gag I ever saw.

I agree. I know past seasons have had some great season long arcs and character development and were even somewhat poignant at times but the core of the show is still the pop culture riffs, takes on the superhero/supervillain theme and just seeing these crazy characters in this crazy world bounce off of each other…

For me the episode was highly problematic, definitely Islamaphobic and borderline racist. The reality for me wasn't the nuances of how they handled the existing middle eastern terrorist characters (or lack thereof). It was how ridiculously cliche and propagandistic the imagery and portrayal was of the Muslim…

I really disagree with the recapper's take on the final scene. I think it was pretty strongly implied that they were going to get back together "I'm taking you home". They both had come to the bad parts of not having each other at the same time. Now he shows up as her Lyft driver and it's time for "the universe wants…

I thought it was right at the same level. If anything I thought this episode had a funnier climax. It wasn't as good as say the amazing Kelly Ripa/Alia Shawkat episode however.

You guys are nuts. Mr. Robot had you questioning the reality of everything from the very first minute and it was the best TV drama of 2015. It's not that any of these tropes/story structures/whatever are innately good or bad. It's just what you do with them.

Actually it's more accurately translated as Lunar New Year and is celebrated throughout Asia so anyone with an Asian background should be familiar with it. (Small possibility she was annoyed that you called it "Chinese" New Year when it's not a Chinese only thing.)

I say it more like "PRAH-TI-TUTE?"

Wait. You were at a theater?

You're missing the point. Of course "comparisons are going to be drawn." I just think that the discussion of these comparisons shouldn't dominate the comments to such an extent that it overrides actually discussing this TV show as a TV show. Also, most of the book readers seem to be operating under the assumption that…

Wow. Going forward I hope these recaps get more comments that aren't simply comparisons between the TV show and the books. (With most of those being complaints about things that were changed because the most faithful adaptation is always the best apparently.) We get it guys! You read these books! Bully for you.

I agree with what you're saying about the political/symbolic dimensions of it and I'm certainly glad that Obama was president while it happened and not Bush. I'm just talking specifically about literally doing a non-ironic "U! S! A!" chant when it happened like we just won our first World Cup or like it was VE day or…

I was 28 and living in NYC when 9/11 happened, working in lower Manhattan and I had a pretty intense experience of it. It was something I experienced first hand not from television. Later when Obama announced Bin Laden had been killed and all these young kids in DC were at the White House chanting "USA" because we'd…

How is shooting an unarmed guy who lived a couple miles from a US military base achieving something?

Sportsball

I'm with Gary. My take may be a bit skewed because I missed the last 20 minutes due to the football thing but what I saw was a pretty solid episode, a B or B+ by recent standards. The cold open Republican debate was godawful but it had nowhere to go but from there. Decent monologue. I thought the America's funniest…

Thanks Alisdair Wilkins for bringing great insight and knowledge to recapping what I think must be an extraordinarily difficult series to recap. This is a real case where the series is matched perfectly to the reviewer. The passion and depth of knowledge Alisdair has for the series are amazing. If I could offer one…

I'm going to post my second attempt at a list here. My main gimmick here is that these are IN ORDER but not separated by genre:

Totally agreed. "Debra's Time" was A-MAH-zing! Such a great riff on bad contemporary musical theater. Cecily just killed it. Hemsworth was good too even if he did mess up the mimed piano playing. The Bush Will Ferrell cold open alone should've brought the episode up to at least B+ standards. The monologue was funny…

If we're talking about recent SNL, or to be more appropriate a relative scale, this season's SNL, it was SNL at its best.