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pwoodson
avclub-129d8ae501a60b5d9c42613f83d96e87--disqus

"Ahoy there!"

The show actually has the same loophole for Suicide/Death as it did for "Quitting Your Job"… if Forrest is no longer around, he can't deliver the Review, therefore nullifying the assignment.

If AV Club let us rate the Segments, I'd give:
Buried Alive, B; 6 Stars, A+; Public Speaking, A-.

The "6 stars" segment was brilliant because it called up 2 important aspects of the show's world: 1) The Veto Booth, which Forrest stubbornly refuses to utilize, almost got used on a seemingly innocuous request; and 2) The very idea of 6 Stars threatened to destroy Forrest's very careful world construct. You could see

The "6 Stars" Segment of Review tonight, of which I was expecting the least, panned out as some of the best Comedy Gold of the series.

Ummm… only 3 weeks later, every full episode is available on the Comedy Central website. Not sure if this was just changed, but I've watched most of the eps. there.

Well, the S1 finale kind of answered that question which I had also wondered about till then. Forrest presumably doesn't tell most people for fear of tainting the "realism" of the life experience, and even his wife, who knows something about "the show", doesn't seem to know much more than that.

I caught some of Myles Barlow's Aussie show, including the Murder episode you reference. It's truly grippingly dark, but the tone of the show is somehow less fun, and Barlow's reviewer feels like more of a psychopath from the get-go, rather than a man compromising his principles. While Daly lets his regret show in

One of the great things about AJ is that about half the time, her reactions are NOT necessarily the standard horrified/frozen smile reaction that you'd expect. And Megan Stevenson makes them all work so well, whatever they are.

I don't see this happening. AJ has never been seen outside the studio, not even in the offices. Part of her mystique is that she only exists on the soundstage.