A really pandering, maudlin short.

Holding.

It's funny you should refer to it as "quasi-Shakesperean"—I almost wrote that it seems like Spacey is in a Shakespeare play and everyone else is in a Grisham novel. I didn't want it to be read as approval of his dialogue.

More ridiculous than political fallout from a girl dying in a car crash because she was texting about a water tower shaped like a giant peach that happens to look like a vagina?

A partial list of ridiculous things Spacey's characters has said, through episode 4:

OK, the third episode is utterly ridiculous.

His character is also terribly overwritten. He and his wife seem to exist in a completely different genre from the rest of the cast.

The Wire newspaper stuff was terrible.

I saw it and I thought it was very good. As this thread suggests, a lot of the hate is directed at Apatow because he casts his family. Whatever.

Phillip and Elizabeth are Russian spies living in America, and guess who just moved in next door [record scratch] an FBI agent!

Ain't no rules says a dog can't be president!

I thought it was about fashion.

Is she in the hospital with car-crash cancer?

He's still lying. He claims to have last doped in 2005, but there is evidence there is evidence that he doped from 2008 on as well.

Apparently criticizing TLC is passé but criticizing Facebook and reality singing shows is cutting edge.

Apparently criticizing TLC is passé but criticizing Facebook and reality singing shows is cutting edge.

And who could forget Prufrock mulling over the perils of elderly cunnilingus?

And who could forget Prufrock mulling over the perils of elderly cunnilingus?

Park Si-Hun

But without science we wouldn't have crystal meth.