I have a really hard time with fake guitar playing, because that's the instrument I know best. Piano is only occasionally irksome, but I think that's also because they hide the hands (or use hand doubles) so often.

Despite the usual dark stretches of suck across the TV landscape, I feel as though our errant good writer is actually having a pretty good year. A lot of bad shows have had inexplicable bright spots.

While I hope you're wrong, I expect that you're right. However, I thought that the pilot, although arguably more ambitious than the rest of the episodes to date, was much more deeply flawed. The stuff with the aunt was godawful, just as the most egregious example. "Bait'n'switch" implies bad faith, however. Given that…

I wonder if there's ever been a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Mortal Kombat against Korn, or vice versa.

I disagree. "Doing it all for the nookie" is a thesis that is useless not because it is wrong, and not because it explains nothing, but because it explains everything without showing its work.

I'm not sure I've heard a better lyricist in a long time, if this song is representative. Amazing stuff. I wasn't feeling the repeated lines at the beginning, but in the middle with the staggered vocals they became at least interesting, and by the end, they sold them completely.

You know, I'm beginning to think that perhaps this show should be discussed in terms of a very weak two-part pilot followed by episodes that broke with the original pacing and direction. It did so in quite a few ways, but the reviewer picks out the biggest problem: the "2 part pilot" heaved a metric shit-ton of…

That's some excellent muscle control, and impressive regularity.

That homeless guy must have been Star Wars.

Just as internet piracy doesn't technically destroy the original work, butt piracy doesn't actually rob anybody of their STD's.

It's much more important to tell her that, even though she doesn't realize it, she's actually a big fan of your work.

I think I get why couples don't just agree to that, and it depresses and frightens me.

I'm assuming Disqus has been down for roundabouts 2 hours, because, really? Nobody? Nobody on "Could you give an F to that face?"

Sounds like somebody needs to watch one of the very special episodes of Sesame Street that dealt with adoption.

Yeah, they need to give Gus more to do. Gus-centric episodes (that treat the character right) give us a double-whammy; they give us Dule Hill in the driver's seat, and they allow Roday to play around in the backseat, which is where his antics rightfully belong.

In Bioshock, a totally fucked-up, pheromone-controlled genetic abomination screams at the player's avatar that they're a "parasite," and then attacks them with guns and melee weapons.

Maybe they're the same person!. Is that something that could happen in either of their "philosophies?"

I dunno, cult leaders make it work, so maybe religion is the missing element here.

Nah. The synergistic undercurrents of animosity and familiarity are there, but there's way too much communication.

I know, and I suggest that you maintain the worldview that allows you to be deeply sarcastic about such things. Imagine what your life would be like if you genuinely believed that someone could have that reaction to a Britney Spears album.