I don't understand SNL reviews. For my money, this was one of the best episodes of the season, and Update was its strongest in recent memory.

That was the worst episode of the season so far, for me. But there were still good things (Update was great, I enjoyed the Beck/Mooney sketch), which is a step up from the all-bad nights over the past few years.

I don't disagree that Troy's interaction with Pierce has discussed, but it never fully resonated with me. Perhaps this betrays my distance from Season 2, but it's not a relationship that help much importance to me, even in the series' greatest episode (Remedial Chaos Theory). I saw it as a primarily one-way…

I guess I'm not 100% sold on the Pierce-Troy connection, so I couldn't help but get pulled out of the episode to some extent. I kept thinking "Oh, that's how Donald Glover leaves the show" instead of buying in to the full emotional impact. The rest of the episode was excellent (felt of "old" Community) and I bought…

I never fully understand the distaste for Seth Meyers, his delivery continues to hit me the right way and I'll be sad to see him leave. Of course, I also completely loathe the Bar Mitzvah Boy (easily the least funny part of last night's episode, always a boring addition & never more than just awkward), so I have a…

HOLY FUCK

What's cooler than being cool?

This is a very interesting article (and I don't mean that in a dismissive sense), particularly taken relative to (nearly) everything else published about Breaking Bad on this site in the past week. Just a few days ago I was pointed to a 2011 essay by Chuck Klosterman on why Breaking Bad is the greatest of the Big Four…

It's an insane takeoff. The show went from Hank sorting/searching to the garage door closing in less than an hour. That latter scene was particularly mind-boggling, ending any hope of the Walter and Hank going back. Other writers would let this stew and blow it all up at the very end.

If we can get firm assurances that she becomes a guest character at least every other week then I'm perfectly fine with here not taking the anchor chair. Basically I just want SNL to use her much, much more.

I've never understood the reverence for Wiig. I can't think of one of her characters or impressions that I find entertaining more than even a quarter of the time. I had terribly low expectations and none were met thanks to the horrific retreads of her old sketches. Even the one legitimately funny bit (the acupuncture…

Kate McKinnon because I believe she needs to be in every sketch right now just to save them. But seriously, she's awesome and I feel like she would kill it there just like in every other role she holds. Although that would eliminate the chance for future Cecilia Gimenez-esque interviews…

It was the funniest, most natural part of the episode. The puppet gimmick was just that and the actors seemed to be having fun playing with its limitations rather than forcing into them.

Clearly I'm missing all the Jewish/Jewish culture jokes on the Bar Mitzvah Boy thing. It was unfunny and tired out the first time and this episode was no different. The episode loses half a letter grade for that awful showing alone.

I actually laughed at this one instead of feeling extreme discomfort last week. That's worth at least a full letter grade higher, or marketing as intestinal relief.