Yeah the discussion becomes a meta-discussion and it gets tiring I agree. It’s mostly because Zack writes three paragraphs about that before starting the recap

To each his own but I strongly disagree there have been four outright bad episodes in a row. There were two bad: the sperm one and the turkey one and two flawed but decent ones: this one and the Jerry in hell one. To make it seem worse you could go back to the Captain Planet episode before this run, which was divisive…

I havent seen it but I assumed the voiceover was a “neon genesis evangelion” reference?

I agree. I’ve watched this happen with the recappers for so many shows here, particularly comedies. To date myself the first time I really noticed was Nathan Rabin’s run on 30 Rock, before they finally replaced him. He was somehow hung up on this idea that that show used to have serious emotional stakes and be about…

I’ve been reading Zack’s recaps for just as long and I’m puzzled by why you say this? He has experience reviewing similar shows like The Venture Bros I give you that but I’ve always found him to be a wet blanket. He occasionally makes some good points but his reviews are generally too negative and he comes off as…

Me too. Not to get to into the internet weeds but the incest space baby is exactly the type of thing that reviewers (like Zack!) complained about because they figured it was just a random one off absurd/gross gag that would get no pay off. So I love the move of having it pay off big time so quickly

I’ve thought about this as well. Earth and event the Smith Family house have become the open site of all sorts of insane happenings from Nimbus coming over to countless alien invasions as well as attacks by the US military a naked US President etc. This happened in past seasons as well but not to this extent. It…

You are correct. It’s not as good as it was for the first three seasons. The only argument is how much it’s declined

This is a good thesis!

I usually don’t agree with Zack Handlen and am a lot easier on the show than he is but I think he’s basically right. The show seems to have crossed a threshold where it’s still funny for the most part but it’s a lot more straightforward and obvious with its humor and its references etc. than it used to be. I don’t…

I was 14 when Space Balls came out and you’re right it seemed like it was coming out way too late after the original STar WArs trilogy but in reality it was only four years after Jedi

I agree that season 3 was the high point. Just a great combination of funny, surprising, great world-building and character development and some actual poignant moments. Season 1 and 2 were great as well but a little less complex and “mind-blowing” with the concepts. There have been some episodes I’ve liked in Season…

The idea in theory is that their role is to try to elevate everybody’s performance so the final product as a whole is better. I realize that’s laughable considering how bad the final product was but that’s the idea. 

I’ve been saying this for a long time. Rusicals etc just seem to be getting longer and longer and it’s getting hard to take

I agree. It seems like Pandora is getting a lot of praise from people who like the characters she played. As I’m in the small subset of people who watch Drag Race but has never seen any iteration of American Horror Story I had no idea who she was supposed to be and removed of that context her performance made no…

I thought it was one of the most fun and well executed runways of the season, if it wasn’t always “goth” by more purist definitions, venturing into glam, 90s club wear, industrial type of stuff etc.

The writing was unbelievably bad, even by Ru Paul challenge standards. It was really hard to watch the whole thing. I don’t agree with the seeming consensus that Ross and Michelle’s direction had much to do with it, at least from what we saw. I thought they were in a bad position with really bad material and some…

I found this confusing the entire season and especially during the finale

The whole council of elders was one of the weirdest aspects of the show and was so underwritten/under-thought out. Remember that time they got in a food fight at the diner over prize money or something? It might have been interesting to see more of the politics and structure of the whole ballroom world but they barely…

I mostly agree with your critique but in fact ACT UP was a fairly big part of the narrative of the show before this season