The only person who has been poisoned is Brock, and not with ricin.

HOLY CRAPBALLS.

What a mean thing to say about Claire Danes' crying face.

I'm with Scrawler.  It's still a good show and I still plan to watch, but on the basis of S1 you'd think this had potential to be in the conversation with "The Wire" and "Breaking Bad," and now it's pretty clearly not, unless they do a big-time course correction.  (I have yet to watch Friday Night Lights, but I…

I'm hopeful, but not incredibly so.  The more I think about the series thus far, the more it seems like it's less than the sum of some pretty fantastic parts.  And it wouldn't have to be so if the showrunners would see their real strengths and play to them.  Saul and Carrie are so good individually and playing off…

Any place with Harry Knowles in it is Hell.  It's a bit unfair.

That too.  It just seems like leaping straight to willing acceptance of an improbable fetish is a little stupid for any non-Joey character.

It's not the nature of the kink that concerns me, it's that we're expected to think Chandler (a pretty standard-issue heterosexual as depicted in every other episode of the show) could have such a kink - or more to the point, that Monica would think that he did, while simultaneously being so stupid as to not…

They're still on Amazon, and presumably iTunes.  Not great options due to the price tag, I realize.

But it's so dumb.  No way Monica would be so stupid.  Even by sitcom standards, that's a ridiculous leap they ask you to make.

Eww, the Rachel/Joey arc.  A sad blemish on Joey's later, golden years.

That's how I ended up hitched to 28 different twelve year olds.  And in several kinds of legal trouble.  Damn my uromysitisis.

The episode with her in the green dress and "going commando"…

Yep. Likewise with the later episode where he skips his TV appearance to help an injured Rachel get dressed for some dinner shindig - though she does find out, he doesn't mean for her to.  (As a side note, I find that bit more touching and effective than the poker one - "Friends" got better at this stuff as it went…

Point 1 is well-taken.  Point 2… I agree that's the problem, but it shouldn't be.  It just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the form that should preclude commenting on it in any meaningful way, let alone writing reviews/analyses.  The B- and C-plots of sitcoms are almost always standalone bits of silliness, and…

Ahem:

Not only are they not in the pantheon of all-time etc., they were a HORRIBLE couple that ruined a good character (Chandler) and either caused or at least coincided with the downfall of a good sitcom.  Of all the awful later episodes, their relationship tended to take center stage in the worst of them.  The actors had…

Maybe it's just that every Netflix-subscribing household is like mine - a wife who loves any weirdo documentary she can get her hands on, and a husband who shoots her down so he can watch more awful horror movies and dusty old MST3K episodes.

It better have been great, she paid enough for it.

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