When you defended 4 and 5 (keeping in mind that 5 was even worse than 4), I immediately disregarded your opinion.

When you defended 4 and 5 (keeping in mind that 5 was even worse than 4), I immediately disregarded your opinion.

How/why do you expect them to "justify the continued existence of this show after Steve Carell's departure"?

How/why do you expect them to "justify the continued existence of this show after Steve Carell's departure"?

You know, I haven't watched The Office in about five years - like, I thought 1 was very good, 2 was really very good, three was pretty good, and the four and five were only good if I really, really had nothing better to do. But based off how dumb The Office was by 4 and 5 and really by 3, and therefore how much dumber…

You know, I haven't watched The Office in about five years - like, I thought 1 was very good, 2 was really very good, three was pretty good, and the four and five were only good if I really, really had nothing better to do. But based off how dumb The Office was by 4 and 5 and really by 3, and therefore how much dumber…

Sir, you are correct. Congratulations.

Sir, you are correct. Congratulations.

"This is a strange definition of fun" — sure, but another one of my sources of "fun" is posting stuff on the AVclub, so is it really so weird that I think "turgid paranoid cynical early Stephen King" is also "fun"? It probably helps if your first reading of the Bachman Books took place during your teenage years, when…

"This is a strange definition of fun" — sure, but another one of my sources of "fun" is posting stuff on the AVclub, so is it really so weird that I think "turgid paranoid cynical early Stephen King" is also "fun"? It probably helps if your first reading of the Bachman Books took place during your teenage years, when…

This isn't an exceptionally good Stephen King book, but there are definitely worse. It's not absurdly long, at least. It is a limited premise, but that's kind of the point — to slowly agonizingly draw out the horror of a man withering away into nothing. It works better in print when you use your imagination.

This isn't an exceptionally good Stephen King book, but there are definitely worse. It's not absurdly long, at least. It is a limited premise, but that's kind of the point — to slowly agonizingly draw out the horror of a man withering away into nothing. It works better in print when you use your imagination.

Yeah, if I wanted a good reading of Aristotle's metaphysics — or Plato, or anything, for that matter — I would not turn to Heidegger.

Yeah, if I wanted a good reading of Aristotle's metaphysics — or Plato, or anything, for that matter — I would not turn to Heidegger.

Haha, you call Sartre a philosopher?

Haha, you call Sartre a philosopher?

Yeah, good luck with trying to get people to understand the difference between what they think "philosophizing" is and what academic philosophy actually does. You have as much chance of that as you do of getting to decide whether a speeding train runs over you or two beautiful young babies.

Yeah, good luck with trying to get people to understand the difference between what they think "philosophizing" is and what academic philosophy actually does. You have as much chance of that as you do of getting to decide whether a speeding train runs over you or two beautiful young babies.

Alternative hypothesis: this final stretch is not "compressed" but actually them trying to stretch 10-13 episodes of material out to 16. I think the first seven episodes could have been accomplished as well if not better in three or four. These seven episodes have mostly been about developing the Walt-Jesse-Mike…

Alternative hypothesis: this final stretch is not "compressed" but actually them trying to stretch 10-13 episodes of material out to 16. I think the first seven episodes could have been accomplished as well if not better in three or four. These seven episodes have mostly been about developing the Walt-Jesse-Mike…