It'll most likely be blue blood at that.

Power through the bad episodes and there are plenty of great ones. Plus you'll have the benefit of not having to wait a week in between each one.

The thing is, Archer *does* have plenty of moments of sentiment, more so than 30 Rock has ever had. 30 Rock almost never committed itself to emotional plotlines outside of the first and last seasons.

She was in a short scene when Jack filled out his Family section of the pie chart. It's clear that the writers weren't especially interested in telling baby stories this season though.

I took it to mean that everything was real, because Eliza Lemon says that the stories come from her great-grandmother and Kenneth indicates that he knows, having lived through them.

It's a byproduct of design by committee. You have producers and execs with no design experience ordering alterations to posters. The designers have to create dozens of iterations with slightly bigger heads, boobs slightly enlarged, eyebrows smoothed out in countless combinations. There's no singular artistic vision.…

The Irma Luhrmer-Merman murder
Turned the bird’s world lurid
The whir and the purr of a twirler girl
She would the world were demurer
The insurer’s allure for valor were pure Kari Wuhrer
One fervid whirl over her turgid error
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@avclub-ca94d6e1a824e303bc93a05dc947498e:disqus, You are mistaken if you think any child raised by Liz Lemon will accept that patriarchal nonsense. Liz's grandkid is more likely to quintuple-barrel their last name on principle and then give up and just use only one out of frustration.

A big problem for the show is its difficulties wringing out serious emotional beats from its characters so while it's consistently funny, there're no real dramatic/emotional stakes. I'm not talking Robin-is-really-infertile-and-will-never-have-kids level of serious but just real moments of emotional connection.

Shhh, I'm still healing from that.

Did they mention that Sasha's apartment is owned by her aunt or something? That might be an admittedly weak explanation. Honestly, they should just stick her in with Michelle at this point if not for the budget issues of having her onscreen all the time.

Well those two texts are both from the past. Todd specifically mentions that his qualms come from tired gay panic jokes still happening in 2013.

I had more of a problem with the crazed-secretly-gayish-murderer trope being trotted out than the gay panic thing. But with Archer's history of perfectly-executed jokes about race, gender and orientation that toe the line of funny-offensive and offensive-offensive, I can give it a pass.

I was so hopeful that they'd give Brody a rest for a while. Have Carrie and Saul chase another terrorist or Abu Nazir's successor and have the investigation into the bomb be a running subplot that lets them occasionally bring in Mike, Jessica and Dana as guest stars.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the wheelchair gag coming round a second time. It worked as a sight gag at the end of last season but really limits Gillette's role. I mean, if they had trouble with getting Cyril involved last season what are they going to do with Gillette now?

If that was a joke I'm going to Nutcracker-mace someone in the face.

The show finally feels like something other than a weird Gilmore Girls puppet show. It hasn't surpassed the original in quality but it no longer invites comparisons every three minutes. I think the break helped provide some distance, especially the Nutcracker macing which was waaay darker in tone than anything that…

I'm so much more interested in seeing Sasha's parents stick around just so we can finally have a gay character in ASP-land. The closest Gilmore Girls ever got in 7 seasons was the Independence Inn's night manager and Michel's arch-enemy Tobin who was in about 3 episodes.

I wouldn't put it past the Fellowes to have him miscarry somewhow.

That was a great gag on Bunheads. Equal parts comedy/drama in the end.