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All of you smart-asses who judge him based on his (admittedly shitty) sitcom are missing out. This is some great stand-up.

Yeah, I was thinking an AD Season 4 type idea, only with an actual endgame in mind (and hopefully not 45 minutes long for no good reason.)

The entire Rachel "arc" is pretty fantastic.

A few episodes leading up to the movie sounds like a good idea to me. Don't really need anything else.

I will say that I do think Dev's apartment is pretty realistic. It's a small, barely one bedroom, which I assume is what an actor of his level would probably be able to afford.

But think about it: Falk said he has several seasons of the show planned out in his head. What's Season 3 then? Everyone mourning Gretchen's death? On an FX comedy? I just don't see it.

Yeah, people really overstate this show's darkness. It gets deep but it is still, at its heart, a show that had a sequence where a cartoonish British lady pushed someone into a cereal display tonight.

I don't think Gretchen is going to kill herself.

The dad stuff felt way more cliche than this show usually gets so a B seems about right, maybe a B+.

I don't really see how the show could be classified as a drama. I mean, this episode was pretty cartoon-y even if it had some dramatic moments. Hard to see…I don't know, Mad Men doing a scene like that grocery store sequence.

Like Casey Wilson, she seems to be more of an actress than a sketch comedian, which is probably why she wasn't a fit with SNL.

It's pretty fascinating to watch how different shows of different classes portray NYC. The NYC of Master of None is an amazing fantasy land of opportunity…compare that to the broke-ass NYC of Broad City, which is an endless, nightmarish obstacle course.

Yeah, I think about this a lot. The advent of cable/streaming has done a lot of great things and produced some amazing shows, but I do sort of miss the idea of having a show that's on all year, consistently, week-to-week. It produces almost a bond with the show that I just don't think is the same for one you mainline

I like it but I'm finding it very unbingeworthy for some reason? It's like Louie where every episode kind of holds up as its own short story, which means I feel pretty satisfied after one episode.

Master of None has been out for 5 days and I already feel like it's been on the air for a year, has gone through a backlash, a backlash to the backlash, and is now at the point where I feel completely oversaturated with hot takes and thinkpieces about it even though I am only on episode 6.

I liked Mark's last episode and I got the point of him as a foil to Leslie's positivity, but they just never really managed to make him an interesting character. I kinda felt like his grounded sense of realism could've been useful in some of the later seasons though. It's hard to imagine him even existing in the same

Yeah, it's pretty damn consistent. I do agree Mark never quite fit, but everything else was so good that it didn't matter. I rank it as the second best season after the perfect S3.

Yeah, the demo ratings are actually somewhat disappointing, considering the hype. All this really proves is what we knew all along: old people love Donald Trump.

The biggest takeaway I get from these ratings is that SNL skewed much, much older than it usually does. Which is not particularly surprising.

I'm pretty tired of the "let's not take Trump seriously!" card. Like it or not, he is currently a frontrunner in the race. The "but he's a JOKE!" train of thought is probably why he's even gotten this far. Obviously the terrible, awful shit he is saying is resonating with a lot of people. That should be enough to