"inappropriately self involved" is Karma's defining character trait, though, isn't it? I really hope she and Amy aren't endgame. In fact, I hope the endgame is Amy realizing that not all childhood friendships need to last forever (it would be depressing, but very real).

Hawley finally won me over a little with that one-two punch of matzah ball soup and Emma references, but still not quite enough to justify his continued existence. Also, I enjoyed that he was relegated to flashlight-holding duty while the Mills sisters actually did stuff.

Look, I love Happy Endings, but that first season was bland. It had a few moments that foreshadowed the greatness that was to come, but overall it didn't do much to distinguish itself from all of the other (now forgotten) hangout sitcoms of 2010-2011 so it was a little surprising that it got renewed. And then season 2…

Okay, so sometimes a TV show has enough appealing aspects that you start watching it but you also recognize that it's deeply flawed. But the good parts are just compelling enough to make you keep watching and a small part of you keeps hoping that the showrunners will learn from their mistakes (they never will). So you…

Disagree on 30 Rock and Parks & Rec and don't actually watch any animated comedies, but yeah, okay, Mad Men also probably fits (if I'm not counting the Kalinda ex-husband storyline as a dealbreaker for The Good Wife, then I can't really discount Mad Men because of the whole married mistress/whorehouse…

Yeah, It's Always Sunny and The Good Wife are pretty much the only shows that I can think that don't fit this

Happy Endings, for sure.

Totally agreed on Freaks and Geeks. They probably could have had a few more good seasons, but honestly, the first season is one of those rare perfect seasons of television and it's doubtful that they could have sustained that level of quality, because it was pretty fucking high quality.

Snowpiercer was pretty good! Not necessarily deep enough to necessitate all of the thinkpieces that came out about it, but very stylish and engaging.

I haven't seen that episode of Graham Norton, but Lena Dunham was on with Idris Elba and Olivia Colman sometime earlier this year and was…not great. In that case, I think it was maybe that her interactions with the other guests were kind of hard to watch (like she touched Idris Elba a lot and it was unclear how okay…

I thought she implied that they were paying for the wedding ceremony, but Michaela's comment about the dress a few episodes back was that it "cost [her] a fortune," so it seems like that's not being funded by the future in-laws.

It did seem weird, but they're probably assuming that a lot of people who aren't following Axis are going to buy All-New Captain America and would be put off by seeing him being a total asshole.

Yeah, that didn't make much sense, especially since she has a bespoke Vera Wang wedding dress, right? No one is that good at budgeting (although possibly I'm overestimating the cost of wedding dresses/underestimating how much people are willing to spend on the perfect wedding dress regardless of their personal…

I have in fact watched a movie before, so yeah, aware of a huge precedent in pairing male leads with much younger women. But it's still not appealing to me and somewhat harmful in a societal context; it ingrains the notion that men, even as they reach middle age, deserve to be with hot, young women while women are…

It's just 13 episodes! They were all on Hulu for free like 5 years ago, not sure if that's still the case. But definitely worth a watch and not a huge time commitment.

Can we talk about Kitchen Confidential, though? Because I don't think I've ever met anyone irl who has watched it and it was great. Like probably not groundbreaking, but the super specific setting made for some unique humor. At some point, I think John Cho (the seafood chef) and Nicholas Brendon (the pastry chef) had…

Yeah, Beharie and Mison have a shit-ton of chemistry, which makes Ichabod's constant professions of his devotion to Katrina kind of hard to buy. But apart from that, @Ajax does have a point; not counting the flirtatious banter with Ichabod, Abbie really doesn't show any sexual interest in anyone. We've only seen her…

On the one hand, that would have made his anti-technology stance make way more sense. On the other hand, eww.

Such mixed feelings about this show. It has some pretty well-written and unique jokes and I will watch almost anything for John Cho (remember FlashForward?). However, it's hard to get past the gross power dynamic; the fact that John Cho is 16 years older than Karen Gillan would make that relationship even creepier if…

In general, agreed. In this case, though, the opportunity to see John Cho as a romantic lead trumps that.