And your verdict on Stuart?

What's odd to me here is the idea that the bookends of this album (which might not even be said to be part of the album) are given such long shrift—with a full paragraph of expostulation on them. It seems like, given the rest of the review, this album would've gotten an A if it weren't for the bookends. This is odd to…

See you next week.

Look at you, I Will…, coming along and sayin' what I'm sayin', only ten times better!

If you were in Jessica's position, though, wouldn't you call Stuart on it if he were going too far? I think she would've by this point. Fair enough, she doesn't want to piss off her landlord, but she's outspoken enough to let him have it if he was truly despicable. Or move.

"Stuart seems to lack that sense of insecurity" = Stuart is too hip.

I mean I don't think he was doing the cheesy pickups before, but was doing something similar to his behavior with the teacher in the limo episode. And all that got him was women like the teacher, and he's decided that's not good enough, whether as a desperate final ploy before his virility fades away forever or…

So in the first paragraph there you say he's too hip and then not hip enough. What would endearing insecurity be? What would be a characteristic that would work as a means for empathy? Why is this needed in a comedy? What comedy character has ever achieved this?

No. See Fuck you…'s response. Stuart's materialism is more, I don't know, "suave," or even metro. He's not a hipster. He's definitely not going to risk irony.

"Creep" is a word that just sucks period. More than feminists overuse it. Include in that list "random," "weird," and "hilarious." I've heard whole conversations that are just these four words repeated in ever-expanding loops.

I know! Contradictions are so frustrating! Why can't a character feel one way about everything all the time! Then I'd know how to think about him!

I see what you mean, but there's a lot of history to be taken into account—the fact that whatever he's been trying since his early twenties hasn't worked, and so now here he is approaching middle age flailing around in this last-ditch effort at validation. That's sad, not bad. Maybe it's empty, but it's not a…

I think the writers trust the viewers enough to understand that Stuart doesn't actually have a "gross frat boy [sic] world view [sic]," that's just what he puts on for lack of anything else to do. I think the writers set the goal of not writing a one-dimensional lead. And so they don't.

Well, eventually, but first he wants to get his number up. Or he wants to achieve the former via the latter. But he's not only looking for one or the other.

Well, that's what I'm saying—they've assumed that role long enough that they've become it. They've used all those accouterments to help them play the part (which is the more generous interpretation. The less generous one says the more adornment, the less that guy has to say). I think any woman will tell you their…

I think a lot of it is in the assumed backstory that almost certainly parallels Merchant's own life: He's not new to the game, and so has probably been trying to find true love and failing for, what, decades now. Because that's been such a wash, here comes this childish kneejerk reaction to just be a ladykiller, to…

I don't think it's puzzling: if you know you're going to see someone more than one time in your life, you behave differently to that person. In Stuart's ideal world, he'll be seeing these girls once and then not ever again, so first impression is only impression, which is why he plays the ladykiller character. Stuart…

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I mean, there's more pure comedy here in Kyle Mooney than anything on Derek. There was more pure comedy in Merchant's character on Extras than any other aspect of the show. And I've watched the very first bit (the first part of the first episode) of this show about 10 times—it's perfect, pure comedy-wise. Also,…

Well put, Pappy. So many of the complaints seem to be advocating settling as the very first option.