I think this is a good point that sometimes gets missed in The Outrage. I've read several Native opinions of the storyline that, while still critical of the white-washing, say that the storyline is otherwise handled pretty well and deserves credit for casting some Native actors.

Exactly! I mean, for all of the criticism the show's portrayal of race got…it's still a really popular show. The internet wasn't THAT harsh with it.

Wow, the Annie/Troy scene in Mixology was originally an Annie/Abed scene…weird.

S2 has been consistently strong and an improvement over the already solid S1 IMO. This was the most annoying Dre has been in a long time (and even then I didn't mind it too much.)

I liked Lizzy Caplan, Nasim Pedrad is great, and Schmidt's girlfriend last season was pretty fun. The list pretty much ends there for me. (I don't count Megan Fox since she was technically a centra character for the weeks she was there.) I didn't find any other romantic partners to be all that interesting. It's not a…

Yeah, 30+ minute run times seems a bit much for this show. I'm sure it'll still be hilarious (as the review suggests it will) but there needs to be a tightness to sitcoms for them to really work IMO.

I don't think OITNB got bad at all. I think S1 was just so radically different from anything else on TV at the time, but now the rest of TV has caught up a bit so it feels less 'special'.

This show has a horrible habit of spending too much time on on romantic partners that are obviously not going to last more than ~4 episodes, and thus they a) can't be fully developed and b) aren't very interesting because we know they're going away anyway.

Heather saying she's been in community college for 8 years made me kind of want a reboot of Community with her as the main character.

I supported Greg/Heather at the time but looking back, I really think she works best as Rebecca's sensible and weird neighbor friend (kind of an anti-Paula, if you will) and I wish her relationship with Greg hadn't muddied that. She was great tonight, though.

It's gotten to the point where I think a Rebecca/Josh relationship would benefit Josh far more than it would benefit Rebecca.

I know Rachel Bloom has said she thinks everyone on the show is pretty crazy and I think we're really hitting that now. I mean, 2 out of the 3 songs in this episode weren't even Rebecca's!

"I'm like the smartest face in here."

I think they're basically just a cable network now. Their ratings are on par with them and they have a similar "renew everything that anyone cares about" philosophy.

MadTV was basically designed for middle school boys, so if you were that age when it was big (as I was) it was perfect. Looking back, most of it was pretty awful but a lot of the cast was genuinely talented (definitely the ones you mentioned.)

The last two seasons of MadTV were bizarre as fuck, with their obviously slashed budget and weird nightclub set-up. I think I stopped watching right before the last season though so I never saw the finale either.

Not specifically I don't think, but I've definitely imagined impromptu musical numbers occurring in my head during particularly stressful life situations.

So after completely catching up I have determined that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is officially the spiritual successor to Community.

1. That will be the series finale.

I'm not 100% confident that Lincoln is gone for good. His relationship could always not work out, and if that's the case Ilana might rethink her stance on having a relationship with him. Or who knows? But even if he's not a regular character I really don't think it's the last we'll see of him.