I'm inclined to refer back to the piece from a few weeks back that talked about how the show doesn't afford Skyler nearly as much warmth, humor or humanity as it does Mike, or Fring, or even Hector.

Have you given any thought to reviewing Darkplace? Because your description of falling down a Netflix k-hole seems quite familiar to how I, and others, got into that series. Plus it's got Berry, Ayoade, and Matthew Holness

Well I know that, but it's a bit like complaining about the UK Office's final episode in October 2003.

Is it the final episode? I thought that the special was supposed to be the big fancy ending.

@disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus There is nothing interesting in Calgary. There's a half-decent museum and a  bunch of really shitty bars.

It's so weird because it's so blatantly artificial. The whole cowboy thing comes from failed attempts in the nineteenth and early twentieth century to sell land in what is now Northwest Calgary to hobby ranchers.

@avclub-71348decaf1df2bb85be2ece24cc2a1d:disqus That makes sense, I guess. I was never super big on the social sciences, I'm more of an arts-fag type.

I like that Dinklage unwinds after a long day at Calgary's terrible Comic Convention by going to the city's most boring, mainstream gay club.

The flipside of that is that he's done some rough, confessional stuff about them as well. The one about cleaning poop out of his daughter's vagina while he's changing her diaper in particular stands out. It's apparently an absolutely relatable parenting experience and it is kind of a cathartic laugh since it rips that…

The plot of the episode was more about playing off of the intrigue of the late night wars, and off of Louie's crapsack of a career/life.

Yep! Just like they'd be justified in feeling the same way about Sacha Baron-Cohen, who has had a very similar trajectory.

The bow tie is the pierced eyebrow of the Republican party.

The fact she's all OOH MISTER DAR-CY! instead of actually liking the books would be part of the joke if this were a much smarter film, methinks.

Austen writes men the way Stephen Moffat writes women.

BOO TO AUSTEN

Miyazaki, I think, gives no fucks about the shame society since the emotional climax of the film is a sequence in which Jiro Horikoshi is wracked with guilt over the fact that he willingly supported the war effort. That said, I thought the Shame/Guilt divide was largely seen as a primitive and reductionist view.

To be fair, by which I mean, more accurate, it's not just that the film is anti-military. It's that when being interviewed about the film, Miyazaki gently implied that the government hadn't done enough materially to make up for wartime atrocities. In particular he said that Japan ought to have paid reparations to…

Koski was right about it though

Is Marvel decamping from cartoons with wide appeal age-wise because they're refocusing on expanding the movie continuity through Agents of SHIELD and all that? I sorta think that that might be the case.

To be fair, the Geeks plot here is part of a running plot that was supposed to come up in Season Two: Bill was supposed to become a Jock and lose contact with the Geeks, causing the breakup of their group and prompting Sam to become as aimless as his sister was at the start of the show.