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I get that you're just joking around, but it's pretty annoying to see mainstream queer-focused programming (which is exceedingly rare and even more rarely done well cough The New Normal cough) dismissed as something heterocentric.

I'd love to see him get involved in this project somehow. Hopefully as a writer at least.

Of course, but I still think there are some fairly obvious flaws in the show's construction that aren't being critically addressed, for the most part.

Looks like I'm gonna have to beat off a lot of guys for the job.

Probably depends on how many principals they're going for. I should hope at least one. But there are a lot of demographics to cover…

No.

You can just have sex with a dude without being gay. I mean, we're better at pretty much everything that doesn't involve a vagina anyway.

It's incredibly diplomatic to still credit Taylor Kitsch with Friday Night Lights and not…other stuff.

Hey, at least then there'd be a reason for him to exist!

Except Parks got routinely criticised for poor subplots, poor villains and static characterisation; when New Girl is equivalently erratic it just gets spackled over and slapped with a B+.

Um. Okay. You seem to be contesting several points I never made.

But…that's not funny, that's just very depressing, deeply concerning, or both.

I'm hoping that Colin exists more as a means for Jenna to expand her horizons as opposed to a romantic interest. I really don't think they'd go in that direction, though this is a teen-centric show so it wouldn't shock me.

Not just any wedding, but the wedding of one of their closest friends. If someone did that in real life you'd shun them forever. Just because Cece and Shivrang didn't want to get married doesn't make it better because none of the saboteurs even KNEW that for sure.

Seconded. By halfway through the season it started to feel like the show would get praised no matter what it did.

How much more interesting would it have been for network TV to show an arranged marriage being worked through at length? I mean, Apu and Manjula don't really count because they weren't main characters.

Can I use sophomore 'meh'? I didn't hate this season (I hated this finale) but I did feel let down.

I've watched every episode and I have the exact same complaints, mainly because the characters, and the limits placed upon them, are seemingly different in every episode.

No, they felt stupid and gimmicky then too.

Preaaaaaaaaaach. This has been the problem with the entire season. Inconsistent characterisation in service of wacky, zany hijinks that completely negates the effectiveness of any kind of human moments - comedic or dramatic - that occur. The show doesn't view what they do as being assholeish behaviour, which is why