Yes, it's pretty easy for us ordinary folk. But imagine how difficult it might be for someone whose entire profession is based around pretending.

Can't speak for everyone, but it had never occurred to me before that this sort of thing would ever happen, at least not on a major production, and it seems extremely peculiar. And exponentially more peculiar the longer it went on. That's why it's interesting.

Good point. Every time any hint has been dropped (policy priorities, demographic targeting, real names), it's been in the Dem direction.

Wow, this was a big miss. Remarkable for a show that, for me, usually just varies between A- and A+.

Core Concept's piquant point proves his perspicacity.

I spend a fair amount of time each day reading national news, and did not know (or remember) about this. Perhaps it was overshadowed by all the other recent police abuse cases?

Because I haven't always been a very attentive watcher, I never knew until several episodes ago about the whole "haven't shared a scene in 3 years" thing. But I think even if this hadn't been at the forefront of my mind when watching tonight's scene I still would have been totally distracted by the oddness of the…

Just re-watched this, and coming at it fresh, it feels positively brilliant. It's wonderful how in such a short span of time it tackles absurd beauty and the beautifully absurd. And beautiful beauty and absurd absurdity. Plus orgasms. And so lovingly shot, paced and edited! I want to call it painterly.

"Brain! Brain make people dumb!"
"No, Leela. Brain make people smart."

Yeah, I love when Frakes & Stewart get all cuddly. Kinda muffles my inner cynic voice who assumes all cast members on a show probably grow to loathe each other by episode 3.

…Internet, eh?

Nature abhors a vacuum. People wanted a sane (and entertaining) outsider's insight on the absurdity of the systems of power, and we sure weren't getting it anywhere else on TV. Our appetite turned the post-puppet show into a trusted institution.

Jealous.

Incorrect. The force being applied by the elf's legs propels both sides in opposite directions with equal momentum. F=ma, Force = Mass x Acceleration, aka Acceleration = Force / Mass (for a given force, less mass means more acceleration). The stone has lots of mass so it doesn't accelerate much. The amount of the…

Well put. This is my least favorite episode in memory. Nothing coming out of anyone's mouth felt natural, authentic or spontaneous to me. If that was the artistic intent, then no thank you.

Was this really only 96 minutes? It felt like double that. I think it would be an effective take as a short. As is, the punishingly slack pace saps the film of any comedic drive. I watched it at a festival showing with a very forgiving, mostly German-speaking audience, and the mood shuffling out of the theater was…

Can't watch the trailer until after work, but curious… is the trailer a spoiler? Is this post a spoiler? If HL is possibly the new Veep, that makes it sound like the election's over, which it very much was not at the end of last season.

I think the fact that Ichabod clearly planned (or at least considered) going for the knife to stop Katrina helps dissipate the "oops I accidentally fatally stabbed you" trope.

The moment when Ichabod tries to follow the "slide to unlock" instructions was genius. I daresay it merited mention in the Stray Observations.

I was mostly just impressed that the brand new librarian character who Ichabod was suddenly friends with at the start of the episode wasn't killed off before the opening credits.