Lip sync isn't just about knowing words and moving your lips in time with music. It's about performance, and Detox is fucking great at it.

If you watch Detox's performances, you can kind of get why she'd be smug though. Coco thinks she's a star for impersonating Janet Jackson 6 nights a week in vegas.

I was very, very distracted by those gorgeous blonde male dancers, but goddamn she's brilliant. It almost makes it hard to believe she'd ever be passed over in these auditions.

Enlightened is basically Party Down 2.0, ratings wise, but without the burden of being on Starz.

You got another one in ya?

By the time my parents capitulated and bought me a PlayStation, the PlayStation 2 came out shortly after.

Me too. I've been very 'ehhhh' on her episodes thus far but if this is what we can come to expect, I'm down.

Maybe you need to give it a bit more time rather than deciding just a few hours after it was released…

What? Muse don't own the use gospel choirs. Jesus christ.

This is probably the worst episode of the season, maybe the worst of the series. The entire riding-in-cars-with-boys-UTI subplot felt so written and ridiculous, not to mention poorly-acted. Which is a damn shame because the Jessa plot was quite good, and an interesting father-daughter dynamic that hasn't otherwise…

Agreed.

My suspicion is that the show is being DVR'd/watched on HBO Go and the like. I somehow don't think the ratings are quite as bad as Nielsen would like us to believe. That said, @NathanielTheGreat:disqus is correct in that Enlightened is pretty great for the HBO brand.

GO BACK TO RUSSIA

I dunno. I think they've all become way too cartoonish, personally. It's mostly funny, but I'm struggling to get on board with the more grounded parts of episodes because the rest of the time just ends up being screaming, petulant behaviour and over-the-top gags. The reason Community got away with its escalating…

"I'm sorry, nor is this heaven."
"Well, no, obviously it's not heaven-"
"No." 
"-Because Janis Joplin's not giving me a rimjob."
"Waystation. I beg your pardon?"

I've had a couple of people say to me after watching only the pilot of The Americans that "This is no Alias! Man, I just miss Alias! Rah rah rah!" and I'm just going, "Okay, this is a show about two undercover KGB operatives in 80s Cold War America. The other is Jennifer Garner as…actually, no. The other is Jennifer…

Noah Emmerich in that kitchen scene - holy shit, can that guy act! I actually misted up a bit. This marriage we've barely gotten a real sense of, and in about a minute, it suddenly felt like years of history flooding through their eyes. Terrific.

I believe there is a hairstyling Emmy, so fingers crossed, if that counts (I assume it does).

I say this a lot in many different places, but man is not liking the characters the lamest reason for thinking a show is bad ever.

I agree - and thoroughly disagree with the idea that she's being played as a shrewish harpy wife. It doesn't come off that way at all, probably because she's still complicit with her husband, she just wants to go about things in a much more zealotic, fervent, angry way. It's less to do with her as a person and more to…