*Onion News Empire had its moments, but the jokes mostly felt way too forced.  That girl playing Jillian is a babe, though.  And super charismatic.

The bachelor party episode from season two is one of my all-time HIMYM favorites.  In addition to the cute Lily-Robin storyline, Brad, and Stuart's cheesy marriage cliches, it also has one of my favorite moments of the show—the reveal that Barney went to San Francisco to convince Lily to come back and is, thus,…

I don't know, I kind of see Emma as an essential companion character at this point.  It would be a nice shock ending if they killed her this season, but I think the cons outweigh the pros.  Some characters HAVE to survive into next season.

Would it have, though?  All the set designs, cars and such seem to have a retro setting in mind anyway.  I'm still convinced it was set in the present for no other reason than to setup the surprise iPhone reveal in the pilot

It is fun.  But it's hard to just embrace the fun element when you're not sure the writers are anywhere near as in on the joke, and especially when you see tons of people online treating this show like a high-level, compelling drama (just as they do The Following, and just as they do for American Horror Story).

Beyond building to the taxidermy element, I just saw the dog thing as an intentional misdirect.  You know Norman's got problems, and you know murderers are supposed to start out killing animals, so they played into the assumption that Norman would kill the dog (especially when he called to the dog with the hammer in…

I didn't get the impression it was a mind-blowing sexual experience for Bradley, but I also didn't get the idea Norman was so bad in bed that the sex itself is the reason she lost interest.  I think it was "just sex," and to someone like Norman that was a big deal, but to her it was more being caught in the moment.

The Dylan-Bradley interaction was intriguing.

Yeah, if the reviewer is going to try forcing that joke into some sort of racist, anti-black category (when it's 100% a Diddy joke - just look on Google…if you want a more racially-charged version of the joke, albeit one that was still delivered humorously, look to season 2 when Peter says, "I don't know how to be…

But everyone raves about Moss, as they do Hamm, Slattery and Hendricks.  Not sure any can be called underrated.

"And, hey, she was pretty good in the soap opera scenes last week"

Artie's been a chauvinist throughout the show though….

I think she's playing up the imbalance of power as the greater issue here, and that could be a fair point, but I think you need to apply a closer context once the victim starts to gain an ability to consent.

@avclub-343c761061bdbc82b2c1482f802ba900:disqus well it was an allusion to Eric Prydz' "Call on Me" video.  Many years too late (though not as outdated as the Stomp reference)

Most people just don't magically get "hot, fit" bodies.  Their bodies are hot and fit because they work out.

I don't want to defend the molestation storyline because it was too rushed, it clashed with the tone of the episode, and it felt like a cheap way to get Ryder and Kitty together (even if I liked their later scenes).

What's the deal with that cheesy music that plays every time Olivia and Fitz have a moment?  Needs to go away.

I've been quietly scoffing at the "Shawn is so unlikable" comments each week, partly because I often do like him, and partly because it bothers me that people could suggest they like the show in spite of such a heavily-involved lead character (just as how I get annoyed by all the Ted Mosby hate on How I Met Your…

It just felt strange to validate Perez Hilton the way the show did.  There literally had to be tens of thousands of people talking about how awful she looks in bikinis (seriously, her body is like that of Spongebob Squarepants), and yet she fingerpoints him like his judgment is the one that hurts/matters.

Here was the big problem for me:  it wasn't weird, crazy, beautiful or…interesting at all.