Has there ever been a show where literally every single cast member went on to do something almost immediately after the shows' cancellation? The Happy Endings cast is truly something special.

It's been generally well-received but a few respected critics completely tore it apart. I feel like every year some critics forget that most comedies start out kind of shitty and then get better and move past their stereotypes. I get the desire to only judge what you've seen, but the knee-jerk "AAAH THIS SUCKS"…

It seemed a bit more self-aware about it than other shows. Not a hugely new spin but it's…something.

Yeah, he was the only one I didn't completely hate. But maybe because I already had residual affection for John Gemberling from Broad City.

I think Happy Endings' characters were a little one-note on the page (at least initially), but the actors all really brought their own to them and changed them into unique-feeling people.

I agree with you, but Happy Endings was so hugely, amazingly, and perfectly funny that I ultimately didn't really care. A show like this has to be *really, really* funny to work. So if Marry Me can be those levels of funny, I won't care if the characters are a little one-note or if there's not a whole lot of…

Did you watch Happy Endings? The "random asides in casual conversation that would never happen in real life" style of writing, like the Sandra Bullock exchange, was a big staple of that show, and it's clear they're trying to recreate it here. I like that humor styling but I get that it's not for everyone.

"Everything worked out with Jenna's dad visiting."
"What?"
"Oh, yeah, you weren't really around for that."

Yeah, The Fighting Irish is weird because these people are just kind of dumped in from another reality and then never mentioned again. I didn't really care for their plot, either. It's one of my least favorite episodes of S1.

I think Season 2 struck the best balance between fun and sincere, which is why it's held up as the golden standard. S3 kind of got tangled up in all of its character arcs to the point where it became a slog. This season could use a little bit more of a pipeline to it, but right now I think the laidback approach is…

Yeah, Nick in the '90s was a fairly diverse place so his hatred of all things diversity makes no sense.

Viewers don't matter and it got a 1.1 in the demo, which was up from the pilot. It's not long for this world but I don't think it's gone yet.

Yeah, if anything the show strongly opposed the idea - Gerhardt's party, the "kiss" in Kathy Geiss's office, ect. It seemed to very strongly suggest they were just very close platonic friends. Which is one of the reasons it remained such a great relationship.

I also kinda wonder whether or not it would've come up again eventually if the show had continued. It never got a fully definitive end, it just kinda stopped once Alex and Dave got back together.

The second episode of Mulaney was a fair amount better than the pilot. It was still a mess, but it was a mess that I could actually see becoming a good show at some point, if it got the chance (it won't).

And "Homer at the Bat" and "Marge vs. the Monorail" and "Last Exit to Springfield" and "Cape Feare" and "Deep Space Homer" and "And Maggie Makes Three" and like the entire golden age

I thought this was about a B. Fun show and better than the first two but something still feels off this season. The cast is a lot tighter, but the writing feels weaker than usual. Problems like sketches not having a purpose or coming to an ending have always been a problem but it feels worse than usual right now.

It was a decent episode but this season still feels off, even though they've tightened the cast. What is with their complete inability to end sketches? It seems worse than ever this year.

Yeah, it's definitely close. It'll depend on how it ends - Doctor Who has the tendency to totally drop the ball at the end of its seasons and one of the great things about S5 was that it did the exact opposite of that, coming together in a way that made the entire season seem more poignant and meaningful. But in terms…

It is sort of unfortunate that they didn't wait a year to do their spy-less season.