It takes place in a deliberately stylized non-specific era that has elements of different time periods within it. Similar to a Wes Anderson movie. Why is this concept so confusing for people?

WHY DO YOU CARE!!!!????

Gaga's best friend in the world seems to be 90 year old Tony Bennett so ..

Forest is a full blown masochist and has been through so much shit and HAS been hospitalized by this point I think the portrayal was perfectly appropriate for the tone of the show.

That they had Kroll Show run for like just the perfect length of time was the greatest thing Comedy Central ever did.

Yeah I think this is yet another episode where Perkins was unduly harsh with both his grade and his review. This was definitely a B/B+ for me, as was last week's. Johansson wasn't amazing in any particular sketch but was strong and consistent throughout. Olive Garden sketch was silly but really funny. The dog who…

Well for one thing these are the characters the audience knows. That's not too satisfactory an answer I know so my other justification is that these are the only mutants who have any ability to use their powers with any skill or predictability. Everyone else at Summerland isn't far enough along yet to go on dangerous…

This is the future liberals want

Read a real book!

Because the thing is obviously incredibly fucking evil and malevolent and can't be reasoned with like that.

To some extent I agree with your argument. I wasn't able to articulate it to the extent you did but I did feel that there was something "off" in both Syd's and Melanie's reactions to the newly confident, swaggering David. With Syd I think the explanation that she simply wanted to be intimate with "her man" on some…

It is a mind fuck to watch it with no grounding in the comic books and that's fun and that's the point. I'm really enjoying watching it with no feel for the source material. I like seeing it as its own thing without waiting for certain beats to hit or characters to be introduced or whatever. It is much more…

Yeah it was really impressive because he was not only singing the song pretty well but conveying that he was terrified while singing it.

Yeah I think this was one of those cases where a lot of people commenting that this was "the worst SNL ever" etc. have no idea what the baseline is for an SNL ep. They all have ups and downs. I don't think there's ever been one that was great from beginning to end. And it was always thus. People remember previous…

I disagree that the entire joke was just making the "Show me the Money" reference. I thought of it as a sort of meta-joke about the way catchphrases take hold, often for no discernible reason. Why did "Show me the money" initially become a catchphrase? Something about the way Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. said it I…

I had really mixed feelings about this Pilot ep but I liked it enough to try out a few more. I love Adam Pally and it's great seeing him as a lead (or maybe more like a co-lead) of a series. There were some really funny jokes. I'm a sucker for the use something from the present to impress people in the past thing and…

I agree that he has been traumatized and maybe has something like PTSD due to all the things he's experienced. And maybe all I'm saying is that I agree with you that he's not schizophrenic (i.e. he's not seeing things and hearing voices that aren't there) but when I say that the character isn't mentally ill in the…

David's not mentally ill though. I hate it when people say the show is ambiguous on this point when it's not.

MR. ROBOT did pretty much the exact same thing for about a third of an episode and it was really controversial.

He's not mentally ill. He merely was diagnosed as such because he couldn't believe and no one else could believe that the things he was seeing and experiencing were real. I know people will say that this is supposed to be ambiguous but they're wrong. The show is fairly straightforward on this point in my opinion.