Good call, I've found a lot of graphic novelists come closest to striking that same note, an existentialism that's not afraid to be tender. I'm not even a big comics guy, but the few authors I check out again all have that same tone. Ever read Paul Hornschemeier? Absolutely brilliant.

I think the actual difference between Roger and Pete is that Roger has, to no end, liked and respected himself.

I also think, to great credit of her humility, she held back on her vocal chops to realistically portray a politician passably trying to sing.

I liked her immediately switching to speaker when Dan first started relaying information about the European thing. She knew that was going to be an obnoxious game of telephone by telephone and wanted nothing to do with it.

As for that big agency dick sniping at them, you'd think at this point anyone in the business would know better than to go quip for quip with Roger Sterling.
"When did they call you in?"
"Right after they saw your work."

The second Ted walked into that bar I shouted out, "Oh fuck, merger!" All the pieces were set up for that moment. Small criticism: I wish it could've been teased a bit better. There was some deus ex cancer to get Ted's agency to a point of financial desperation, if they set it up a few episodes earlier I think I'd…

That sounded like a Tom Tom Club song with (more) childish chanting.

@avclub-53f25b25e4d664b183168e41dc14c9f4:disqus I think you're right on both counts, in that it's a choice motivated by the latter and justified by the former.

@avclub-6ca57d2774f04ac8acf3d2b10f0338f4:disqus Well put. So much knee jerk anti-conspiracism is conflating any and all accusations of state wrong doing with the idiocy of looney shadow government paranoia. Of course something like the Iraq War was a conspiracy, even a conservative national security suit like Richard…

@avclub-fe858281188f10005605ea7b1dd0bf7f:disqus I'd say half Curb Your Enthusiasm, half Larry Sanders. It has none of the cinematic ambitions that define Louie. And watching next week's episode, it looks like he's doing the inter-spliced improv interviews like Larry Sanders.

And we know how uncomfortable she is with missing limbs.

There is a somewhat irritating trend of every single character on this show having an impossibly in depth and broad field of knowledge and insight about every conceivable topic. I thought Scott Thompson's character was doing an autopsy last week, how does he know about tracking cell phone patterns? This may be my…

Who's "conspiring" in my argument? If anything I'm arguing they did not conspire enough and just reacted on pure emotion. Think about what words mean when you use them.

Unless they're literally projecting people under a bus in the course of their drunk driving.

Big time. Fuck tha po-lice Witherspoon has me all hot and bothered.

Well done, my earliest takes were similar to yours, only swap out Christ for more of a humanist altruism. But you get older and it becomes harder to ignore or downplay the one-sidedness of the relationship, probably having something to do with expanding relationships beyond the similar one children have with their…

I love The Giving Tree. I'm depressing, bleak, and sentimental.

@avclub-33beffd09a1b020d1187c6b4b264014a:disqus "Anyway, we don't have the money or resources to become a 'police state.' We're far too large and disjointed."
Non-sequitur, but I think Boston demonstrated that any region of the country can be effectively turned into a police state at the drop of a hat. Honestly, when…

@avclub-33beffd09a1b020d1187c6b4b264014a:disqus "Well, the Bush administration came up with the concept of not having to read Miranda if there was a imminent danger to public safety."

@avclub-152cc7bd380aa7ddee2fb624d87228b1:disqus 1. "effectively put under Martial Law" reading comprehension skills are thataway homes —————>
2. No, that's not justification at all, not for protocol, it's excusing a mindset, which I get, but it's separate from the point I made. There's no knowing he wasn't armed, I…