It requires suspension of deez nuts. They should have gone with life model decoy.

Did she tweet in all caps again? I think I threatened to bang some sense into her in these comments last time she did that.

I said a week or 2 ago in response to someone saying they were gonna start watching from the beginning that the early seasons actually have a great deal of heavy drama - Monica at thanksgiving, Ian coming out, etc. but were generally perceived as being overshadowed by wacky ghetto antics. They were much better than I…

I think Gus being perfect is kinda the point to him - he acts as a foil to both the recovering addict and the drama of JJS. Fiona is presented with a really simple choice in sticking with a fantastic guy, or reverting to her history of bad men and drama. It'll be interesting to see which way she goes and how much…

tell you what, hot stuff, one of my anonymous e mails that I remember is eml120618 at yahoo dot com. That stands for e mail, and the date I made it along with yy/mm/dd of when I made it. Send me a message there, and a key in it corresponding to a message here you leave publicly, and we can establish more private…

Ok, that's complicated, because I built at least 3 layers on anonymity between my AV club posts and my real life, so that I could discuss one honestly. If I can catch you online I'd be willing to throw a trail of breadcrumbs back to me.

I wouldn't go that way at all.

We could. That whole savage love thread started originally with me joining an adult/swinger dating site and posting several pics to my profile, one of which was me holding it next to a beer bottle for reference which has gotten a lot of positive feedback. I'm not saying we have to do this, because really I'm very…

Thank you, I couldn't remember what was in the Pillow Case. I think Carl, at this point, is the last one who looks up to or respects Frank at all, and given Frank's metric cliff notes we can all see that will end horribly. I'm actually kinda worried about the pure sociopath that may come out of Carl when he's cut…

Ok, I'm with you there up until ignoring Frank. As the ultimate, aged expression of "this is what the damage caused by poverty and bad family relations causes" then Frank is unbeatable. Yes, he frequently serves as comic relief, but he still has those moments where he apologized to 'Fiona' for fucking up her life,…

You are not at all in the minority. Judging from the comments so far most of us really liked this episode, but Josh is unreasonably fixated on JJS, even if I understand and agree with his reasons for it, and that spectre has hung over his reviews all season.

Seriously, I'm rewatching it again now, and Kev's ultimate scene where he breaks it down "You seem nice, so I'll be honest" and then returns to "I knew this was a trap!" are like, really good representations of how nice guys finish last, and parents trying to squeeze (ha!) what fun in when they can. Go Kevin.

As a scrawny irish-american with 8 and some change, no, I cannot agree with that statement, despite not having paid attention to that during that scene.

It may actually come down to that, where Mickey has to choose between his "wife" and child, or his crazy lover, and I think that's both a fascinating and organic way for the story to go, and I would like to watch that decision.

He's still purely manic, and believes he can fight the entire world, Mickey included. If he starts both acting manic and expressing a horrible, negative, defeatist view of everything then that would indicate a mixed state, and watch out for that type of scenario.

Yes, that character has no reason to be back for several reasons. First, he started as a hate deserving wannabe savior, who wanted to save Fiona from her family by whisking her away from them, and that's still the primary reason I hate the character.

So who thinks Carl's video of Debbie kicking ass and taking names will come back to bite Debbie in the ass, given that several real world parallels exist where girl fights hit the internet and result in charges/sanctions against one or more girl involved?

No, it is odd. I hate the character too for reasons previously stated, but Josh is rabidly and morbidly fixated on the character.

Was thinking the same thing, but he never actually fired the weapon, so at most he's an accomplice and they could push him on those charges to give up Mickey (or someone else to take the fall). If they tried him for anything worse, from vandalism to endangering public safety by firing a gun in the city, then any…

Another thing I loved this episode: I got the impression several seasons ago that when Frank ruined Debbie's school project and she beat him with a pillow case full of doorknobs or bars of soap or whatever it was that it was a big scene for that character, and represented a turning point. It was very rewarding to…