Starring Luke Wilson as David Duchovny as Hank Moody.

Todd — I have a close family member with a pretty severe mental illness.  His illness was pretty well managed for ten years; not much to notice day-to-day at all.  He had friends and co-workers for ten years who never knew about it, until the day it came thundering back.  Then they all did, at once, with no warning.

Anders' older woman was played by Sally Kellerman, best known for playing Hot Lips Houlihan in the original movie version of M*A*S*H.

I watched this show beginning to end, often grudgingly.  I like a good bad soap opera show once in a while, no apologies for that.  But often, the storylines were completely out of character, and I'd find myself thinking "ohhh…why do I keep watching this??".

I view it as a commentary on the race-bending that you see every day in New York City.  You often see black-looking kids with white-looking mothers, and vice versa.  It's not the least bit uncommon.  In fact, I have a blonde, blue-eyed female friend with a very African-American looking daughter and an African-American…

I view it as a commentary on the race-bending that you see every day in New York City.  You often see black-looking kids with white-looking mothers, and vice versa.  It's not the least bit uncommon.  In fact, I have a blonde, blue-eyed female friend with a very African-American looking daughter and an African-American…

Exactly this.  You can't understand why Nora would love the wolf?  She was an abused woman — terribly, physical-scar-leaving abused — who was helpless at the hands of another human being.  I think it's clear why she would love being a werewolf.  That much physical power and freedom would be incredibly seductive to a…

Specifically, a hard Italian cookie intended for coffee dunking.  So not really great for poker and beer night.

Todd - was this review specifically Infinite Jest inspired?  It feels so David Foster Wallace…especially with the references to Mike Sr.'s would-be tennis career.  I'm looking for footnotes, next week, Todd.  Copious footnotes.

I finally watched the premiere last night.  I'm surprised nobody's mentioned that the clock scene is an homage to the iconic scene from Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last!"…sure, it was a long time ago, but it is one of the great images from silent film.