Yeah… I really think we're just going to have to agree to disagree on that one.

What should they have changed if they had waited for the verdict to come in before filming?

I'm really not sure they did though…

Wow- this grade and review is way off base. I thought the show actually handled the ideas pretty deftly and juggled a million ideas with its usual uncanny ability to do so. It feels more like this review wants to be negative about it simply to be edgy in claiming that. Put another way, it's saying that commenting…

I think Brandon may want to hand this show off to someone else. It sounds like he just doesn't like it, plain and simple, and that is really starting to color these reviews…

Here here! This review seems way out in left field to me. It does make some good points, but the weight it gives to the negative side seems really disproportionate.

O'Brien doesn't get much screen time in evil mode, but goddam if he doesn't fucking knock it out of the park.

Damn! I'm not saying this season was great, but this review seems particularly punitive. I can definitely think of a few whole tv shows that only got Cs (or Bs! or As!!) from the AV club that were not as bad as this season, or this episode. Sure it was a bit formulaic, and maybe it's not as clever as it thinks it…

I thought she said, "you'll end up hating me."  As in you'll end up hating me if we keep doing this on/off romantic dance, where I just keep hurting you.  I thought that was the nail in the coffin for her about leaving.  She has to leave or have Will truly end up hating her.

Isn't The Good Wife premier tonight as well?

It seems to me that this show is being graded disproportionately harshly.  Yeah, I agree with the down sides and weaknesses that Ryan points out, but not the general magnitude of their badness.  I would have said something more like a B+ for this episode.  It feels like the AV club almost has a bone to pick with HoC…