I probably was too kind. My grade for the season would be an F, but this show has starved me for anything resembling competent storytelling for so long, the final scene was like a bowl of cold gruel. Nothing to get excited about under normal circumstances, but these aren't normal circumstances. (See: "Hello, whore.")

This Matthews and LaGuerta explanation actually makes sense to me. But yeah, his failure to figure out that LaGuerta was the one who burned him is still pretty silly.

It was ridiculous. But I guess once you anonymously call in information about a terrorist threat and no one ever comes looking for you, it emboldens you. Then again, so does getting away with 900 murders.

Wait, wait, wait. Since when does having an opinion of a television show that differs from the majority opinion single you out for ridicule at The A.V. Club?

For whatever reason, I buy the "Debbie Loves Dex" story, and while it's not something that I would have expected, I wouldn't say it came out of nowhere. It struck me as the kind of thing that makes sense once it's mentioned, but that I wouldn't have thought of myself, and presenting an idea like that within the…

I loved the first season of Six Feet Under, most of the second and certain stories and episodes of the later seasons. I did love the finale. But yeah, what @avclub-70f6dcc28ef8fc282b0c969e75d9bdfc:disqus said.

I get the confusion, but as I mentioned in the review, at this point in the season it's really difficult to form an opinion of an episode that isn't colored by everything that came before it. I didn't find this worse episodically than "Get Gellar" or "Ricochet Rabbit," but the grade is cumulative to some degree and…

I actually did notice that. But in an episode like this one…y'know, gotta choose your battles.

Honestly, I couldn't agree with you more. Three more episodes and I'm out. The A.V. Club offered me $20 million to recap another season and I was like "Chile please, $24 million or I walk."

I'm tempted to visit some other discussions of this episode so I can see how people who didn't see the twist coming reacted to it. If I hadn't put it together I'm sure I would have enjoyed this episode more. Would I have enjoyed it much more? I doubt it.

Yeah, this is really hard to swallow, and I think I wrote at some point that the worst part of revealing that Gellar is not real is that we now have to accept that Travis set up these ridiculously elaborate tableaus all by himself. Bullshit.

I really don't even get the Matthews thing. LaGuerta blackmails Matthews into giving her a promotion based on her knowing that he cavorts with call girls. Then one actually dies with him at the scene, and he thinks "Who should I call to help me clean this up? Perhaps the woman who has already used such information as…

This is what my friend said. She was basically like "I do other things when it's on, which isn't to say I would have noticed that if I was paying full attention, but there ya go."

I s'pose you can never please everyone, especially when the discussion gets all race-y. But the purpose of mentioning that I'm a black man was two-fold.

Tyler was really pissed about this episode and the Turner execs had to eat a lot of his shit, apparently.

If only it were so simple. I also don't drink but have learned to hold a container of liquid when I'm at a party, because if I tell someone I'm not drinking because I'm neither an alcohol drinker nor thirsty, it becomes a whole thing. After a while, the path of least resistance becomes really, really attractive.

Fixed. (I wrote this late.)

Higher Learning is pretty painful.

Diary Of A Mad Black Woman is a good place to both start and finish. You'll see what I mean.

I think Tyler's movies are deeply cynical to the black experience, particularly cynical about black love, which is why his work resonates so deeply with some black women who seem to both want to be told that they will never find a black man to love because we're all full of shit, and also that they will find a black…