Yeah, Brick's sliding into Rain Man territory more and more: not making eye contact, not really listening, breaking into non-sequiturs, non empathetic, etc. You could also cut a lot of recent Brick moments into trailer for a serial killer movie.

Yeah, it's one of the most uncomfortable shows I've seen, at times even outdoing the U.K. Office in cringe factor.

Reverse April Fools is early this year.

Yeah, too much spent in the mansion, everyone just spinning their wheels. The creators were a little too pleased with themselves for an admittedly ballsy and potentially exciting move that they didn't seem to take time to plan an actual arc after the initial game change.

They're going to set the entire season around that elevator ride, utilizing flash backs and forwards as space fillers until the finale reveals that the elevator ride meant nothing after all, Ben dies of an unknown illness, and that Leslie was in love with Mark Brendanawicz the whole time.

Agreed. When Nate Silver pulled out his graphs and crunched some statistics, I lost it.

When Phil delivered all that exposition about his mom at the bridge, I was scanning the crowd thinking for sure Willard would be there. Guess that Qantas dough stretched to only so many cast members.

Speaking of Seinfeld, with all of the talk of Claire's deal being her 'baby", i was really afraid of a direct "Dingo took my baby" line when the laptop was taken.

And yet only a single nomination for makeup for five seasons of The Middle.

Oh, you're right about the Disney law

Yeah, I groaned when the Middle screenshot on Hulu was Rita. I realized it's cause there's never growth with that story, it's just always the same "Ha! Let's all laugh at the violent rednecks!" The same one-note joke was basically the problem with Brian-Doyle Murray, but they wised up and when they had him back, it…

I remember at the time they were saying that ABC forced them to have an audience/laugh track. The compromise was that they film it in front of an audience but won't sweeten the laughs so what you hear is totally real and natural, thus it was flatter than we're used to. Of course, this helped kill it totally for…

Got a ticket for Parenthood so I could sneak into Nightmare on Elm Street 5. Got caught before previews and sent to Parenthood. Little did I or they realize that they were doing me a favor.

This is good rock and roll, uh, music.

That was maybe the fifth joke of this update where I was thinking "Oh, the hacky punchline to this joke will be ——-". And every time the actual punchline was way less funny than even the typical hacky one that I thought they would do. Horrible.

It's a testament to Pixar's total commitment to the truth of every
moment that I was also sitting there at the incinerator scene going "No fucking way…" Looking back on it after, of COURSE there is no way they would end the movie (and series) that way, but in that moment everything works so perfectly that you believe…

And the fact is that we don't know him, so getting mushy telling us that it's his big break is off putting to the audience as well as obvious, leaving us like "uh, no shit, asshole, just make with the funny."

I know it's hard to show if she really is a good writer or not, but at this point it's getting almost as bad as Smash having every character tell us how amazing Katherine McPhee's character was, when nothing was there to back up those claims.

So did Chevy.

He had me as soon as he started laughing when he said he'd been there 15 years. It was an obvious punchline, but his delivery sold i and twisted it a little.