She's also keeping her emotions out because she can't stand exposing any vulnerability. It's part Jimmy's dysfunction and part hers, which is what makes them such an interesting couple to watch.

She was had a decently prominent role on a season (or maybe two?) of Cougartown.

Cheating is definitely too obvious.

Falk said in a TVLine interview that the dark issue Jimmy and Gretchen would face is "something that’s very common among a lot of people I know and creative people."

Great catch. Sure looks like it. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I don't want to nitpick, because I love the shit out of this show, but there's no way Lindsay could get pregnant from that, right? Freezing a condom that was at least a day old when she found it and then microwaving it to the point that it explodes? If there's anyone out there with a more sophisticated understanding…

Swamplandia. Karen Russell sets up this beautiful, lyrical world of magical realism and then rips it out from under you with last act sequence that essentially voids everything that came before. And the way she does it is just so tonally jarring I threw the book across the room.

Are they bringing back Indira Varma as Ellaria/beefing up her role? It seems weird that they would cast a fairly prominent actress only for her to play arm candy all season.

Broken, a little self-absorbed, and in complete contempt of most polite social norms, but definitely not horrible. But I think they both might see themselves as horrible, or at least might secretly be afraid that they are.

I'm a little bit in love with this show. It nicely works in a lot of very powerful, subtle emotions underneath all the misanthropic jibing. And while I agree that the movie theater scene was way too broad, I thought the look of recognition that flashed between Jimmy and Gretchen when she said she hated Cameron did…

Mid-40's Newman already cornered the market on playing a down-on-his-luck 60s/70s private eye in a series of movies based on books by a guy named Macdonald in Harper and The Drowning Pool.

The best parts of this season, in my opinion.

I mean, the whole book, some very beautiful prose aside, is already basically just a bunch of rich adults acting like dumb teenagers. The characters are basically the template for every 80s and 90s teen movie—the dickhead jock, his dreamboat girlfriend, the sensitive hero who pines after her, his nerdy best friend,…

I thought she was great in it specifically because she's not a femme fatale type. So instead of coming across as another iteration of an old trope, she came off as this insecure, desperate young woman trying to scrape by. In fact, I thought that was kind of the point of American Hustle. It took all these familiar…

It kind of got me. I think the addition of the Kate character was one of the best things this season's done. Jack, while fun to watch, is essentially a superhero now and we all know what decision he's going to make in any given context. Sarah, er, Kate is new enough and human enough that her choices can still…

Oh, I think the finale absolutely followed through on the stellar season. I meant we'll have to see whether the next season carries the momentum or whether it opens with Jackie back to status quo, since they pulled that trick a few times in the past. FWIW, I have faith they'll pull it off.

After hitting the reset button too many times in its early seasons, Nurse Jackie is having a late-in-life resurgence, with this most recent season arguably being its best work to date. I guess we'll have to see if they follow through on the finale.

This season, I kind of thought Heather Graham was a much more fitting partner for him than Karen. Her squeamishness during the dinner out with the Runkles really drove home how poorly suited for each other they were.

Eh, I didn't think it was that bad. For me, Californication was a show that stopped being good a long time ago but never really got to the point of being awful.

Watching this finale, it struck me that The Americans is structurally and tonally more similar to The Shield than anything else currently airing, in the sense that both shows weave deep character studies and complex inter-organizational politics into self-contained one season arcs.