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I just wish he'd say "THE SHOES-AH!" like on The IT Crowd. Which would also have been relevant to last night's Newsroom.

Last season he was also seen to have Instagram. We made a lot of fun of that over on Tumblr…perhaps ironically.

This show abandoned tongue-in-cheek about four seasons ago, I fear, but I did laugh at that line—I mean, if there's anyone who didn't know Zach was the real killer within literal seconds of his appearance, then…well, then this is the show for them, really.

There were so many tiny little unnecessary VO moments this week ("It's Deb." "Dammit." "Hamilton's son") that I was just picturing MCH in the recording booth reading the script and making Jim Halpert "really??" faces at no one in particular. He deserves so much better than this show, good Lord.

I love that Deb and Dexter were just…driving other cars within a few scenes. Do they have spares?

I am desperately hoping and praying to every deity on Olympus that we're not going for a Lara Logan-inspired plotline for Maggie. Please, gray-eyed Athena, no. It will come off so, so cringey and tacky and just augh. No.

I go wildly back and forth on whether we're supposed to unironically side with Will or not, and—Aaron Sorkin just criticized snark?? The man who wrote Toby "there's literally no one on Earth I don't hate right now" Ziegler and Mark "I didn't know that, tell me more" Zuckerberg? What???

I totally thought it was Mia Kirshner. I cannot tell them apart.

"Cart, kiosk, cart/kiosk" still makes me laugh every time. I love Taylor being annoyed about stuff almost as much as I love Luke being even more annoyed at Taylor. I'm eagerly anticipating the scene where the reverend and the rabbi join forces to make fun of him next season.

Ha, I mentioned that in a comment below—no Emily reaction shot, sadly, as I believe they were dining at Yale (with Rory) at the time. That would've been quite a fun dynamic.

I believe the exact line was "You are a honey-tongued devil, aren't you, Dick?" Good heavens, Paris.

"Well, hot men travel in packs." "Do not say anything like that ever again." (But seriously, after last week's surprisingly charming Paris/Jess stuff and now her droll chemistry with Richard, Paris is just getting more and more awesome.)

Seriously, Abby's way better off with them than with Angelo and Regina, whose logic behind wanting to basically become a mother again is "babies are adorable!" They're both terrible.

There was really only Lana and Intern Girl, right? I mean, I'm just grateful they didn't go the incredibly obvious route(s) of having Daphne get pregnant by Jeff (or Melody by Jeff), or Bay by Ty, or Simone by Emmett, etc.

You know, now that we've seen the scene so many times, shouldn't LaGuerta have told Deb to, er, arrest Dexter, rather than "put him down"? Especially after he dropped the knife? I'm kinda done with Dexter as a character and I was no huge fan of Maria's either, but…really? Oh, whatever; it was dramatic.

I don't know, he was dropping some truth bombs this week—I laughed out loud at "what does my sister see in you??" Nobody knows, man.

Was it weird that the calendar said July 2012, not 2013? Or is it hoping for too much to assume the prop people noticed that?

OK, the only thing that could make me more annoyed about the massive Bechdel fail in this episode [Maggie's conversations with Sloan, Erica and Lisa were ALL about dudes] would be to quote the fucking wretched Blind Side. I just—I—flames…on the side of my face…

The bracelet freak-out is a bit much, but it's his total meltdown over finding Paris and Jess at her house that really made me side-eye—like, yeah, at a glance it definitely looks like she lied to him about wanting a night in alone, but he really doesn't give her a chance to explain before getting really mad. I've

Rory does the whole "Jess and I are just friends" bit for so long; does anyone ever confront her about it? Is she naive enough to think that Jess only likes her as a friend, and if so, does anyone besides Paris in that scene call her on that?