— Tremendous episode.  Felt like a cross between "World's Greatest Couple" and "The Playbook."

I believe it was, "sorry that dirtbag raped me."

The later scene with Norman and Bradley is more logical as far as trying to setup a romantic connection between the geeky new guy and the hot girl.

Completely forgot about that one — was mainly thinking about the scene with the guy whipping her.

Yeah, it will take more than a rape scene to prove A&E belongs with the cable big boys, but it is worth noting that I've found other recent drama attempts on the network to be far too soft, glossy and generic (and thus do want to see a grittier, darker approach on the network).  They didn't send out that same type of…

Yeah, changed my post after realizing I misread.

I kind of saw that guy getting violent, but I figured he'd be more of a lingering villain and not someone who strikes right off the bat.

As far as the key assault in the first episode, it's graphically similar to what you'd see on The Americans, but it comes across as more vicious because the victim, in this case, is an actual victim and not a trained KGB agent who could instantly snap the aggressor's neck if things got too dangerous.

Was interesting to see Todd's take on the latter moments of the premiere.  While they were certainly enthralling, my opinion was that the first half showed so much more promise.  I actually let out a groan once we got to that climactic action scene in the middle—and not simply because it was an uncomfortable, graphic…

You have to be a little careful with this argument, because some could argue that the mere fact that Family Guy TRIES to be offensive does not necessarily make the jokes funny or tolerable, and so a critic should point out what was wrong with them.

Of course you're right that there was a "have his cake and eat it too" element to the Oscars bit, but I still thought the overt, high-level explanation of what he was doing helped to justify it.  He outright told you what he was doing — this wasn't a situation in which misogynistic MacFarlane apologists had to…

"At the Oscars, this was the knowing attitude that “We Saw Your Boobs”
was sexist, but it’s okay, go ahead and laugh because Seth MacFarlane knows
it’s sexist and got a bunch of actresses to shoot cutaways and be in on
the joke, which only halfheartedly undercut the already baffling and
unfunny musical sequence."

That's what I meant by profit.  The $3 million in funds from users will enable the Veronica Mars team to create a movie that it will, in turn, sell to the marketplace.

Who's getting the profit from all these Kickstarter launches?  The investors who actually backed the project or the studios that weren't willing to take the risk?

Wait…so you're mad that *GLEE* didn't feel obligated to make another one of its characters gay?

Absolutely fantastic episode; completely agree with the grade.  Was great to see Sue Sylvester be FUNNY for a change (best Jane Lynch ep since season two, maybe even season one).  Songs were cool—seriously, what child or even adult of the 90s DIDN'T want a Backstreet Boys-N Sync mashup—and the stories were all…

Huh? B?  As good an episode by Office standards as tonight's Parks was by Parks standards? This was brutal.  And I'm an Office apologist.

And I don't understand why - she's awful.  And as far as I know, it's not like she's dating anyone crazy powerful in comedy circles (thought it might have been Ben Schwartz since she's also on House of Lies, but no, it's some random filmmaker)

Oh come on, this episode was so, so fun.  And the way it went off the rails in the final act (honestly, what in F's sake was happening with the Serbians) made it so much more awesome.

Agreed about Stan and Nina.  While it was cool in the sense that you were rooting for Stan to get some, I felt there was a far greater story to tell with her not seeing him sexually and rejecting the advances.