Hey AVclub, here's a fun fact about me: the photo on the back of Reiser's book "Couplehood" played a fairly major role in my stunted teenage erotic self-discovery.

Marge: Sometimes, Moms and Dads get a little… accustomed to each other.
Homer: Dads especially.

I wasn't happy with this episode either, despite the usual great acting we expect from our favorites. Martindale really knows how to make you lean forward in your seat! I mostly know her from The Americans (and Bojack Horseman I guess), but I must make a point of looking up her imdb page. Anyone have any favorite…

I just assumed it was the same character returning, and had traveled to Iowa out of extreme loyalty. Seemed there was an implied joke about how this dude was still so caught up in Florrick-mania that he showed up at every stop of their laborious trek across the state despite the fact we were told that's a difficult…

As someone who moved away from Minnesota because it was too Iowa-like… no. ;)

I'm on episode 5 right now and agree almost exactly with your characterization of the show… except for the "you don't mind most of the time" part.

At the time it was still in theaters, I took a (jokingly) principled stand and proclaimed, "I will not see this movie, just so there will be at least one person on earth who hasn't seen it."

I thought Kara's emotional performance sold the idea that she needs this "normal life" to keep her sanity and soul even if the writing didn't help her much to make it convincing.

I think you're the one who dropped the ball, Jonesey. This is fairly racist nonsense.

The recent Fear the Walking Dead prequel series was solidly in the Jack-Bauer-on-24 camp on this one: apparently all it takes to get perfectly accurate and actionable information is just to be inhumanly cruel enough during interrogation. Blech.

"everything connected with CatCo is zippy and well-developed while everything connected with the DEO is bland and vaguely confusing"

Well that was bafflingly mesmerizing. Love the "wicked" part, and the conclusion with "zipper". And the appearance of the various guilds singing "lollipop"/"lullaby"/whatever lends itself to an almost Schenkerian appreciation.

If you're anything like me (congratulations), you'll be keenly interested to learn about the etymology of "outrage". Turns out that, although clearly usage has been influenced by the OUT+RAGE connotation, the word "outrage" does not share a common root with "out" or "rage", instead descending basically from "ultra"!

So there's this theory that the biological basis of autism is "hypermasculinization" of the developing nervous system. I'm not versed in the literature, but I've heard worse theories.

Probably a lot of them (sigh… us) also have even whiter & dude-ier (aka richer) friends who are getting stuff they aren't getting, leading to the natural assumption that the reason must be affirmative action.

It was all worth it for "My emotional state… really isn't the greatest" in the ROTJ one.

Watching this makes me think (with all due reverence to these four ladies whom I love without exception):
* Broad City benefits mightily from having a script that's been agonized over a lot more than this promo's script was
* The Sisters movie will probably not be great

Hm, while the list of facts and interpretations of the plot you provided looks accurate, I don't see how any of it really addresses the quality of the writing.

OK, so, I play a random track skipped to a midpoint at random to get a sense of "will I like this"…

Agree! Last season was a relative miss for me (compared to the other seasons, which I adore). It seemed more consciously experimental than stream-of-consciousness absurd, which didn't work as well for me. Though I did really like the Fan Fiction episode.