Yeah, I was having a whiplash-inducing "This guy is awesome"/"This guy's an asshole" argument in my head the whole time.

I remember back when The Wire was still on, he came to my Television Symposium class, screened the 4th season premiere, and then called us all assholes for living in Los Angeles and not being poor.

Why even make the show at all then? He could have just sat on a bench for 5 years and thought about how much Baltimore blows and it would've been all the same to him.

The music at the end that Todd is talking about is part of Hans Zimmer's score for The Thin Red Line. It can also be heard in the original trailer for Pearl Harbor, and the music is so powerful it suckered people into thinking that film had a chance of being good.

I don't think they'll go on Netflix until well after the season is over, probably concurrent with the DVD release.

Crisis Alert!

wtf is reelz lol

Sounds like the part Joshua Malina was born to play, baby!

Presumably there's someone named "Danny" milling around this office somewhere, right?

Yeah, up yours, Luther!

Any one of them could co-star with me. We'd have great chemistry. I'd mumble something sarcastic, she'd mace me, and Asta would shit on the floor. Just like Dashiel Hammett would've wanted.

FINISH IT!  FINISH IT!!!!!

"Watch out, Hal Holbrook!" is good advice in general. That kindly 90 year old man has some mouth on him.

Also, is "Not everyone's a Puddy fan" the new "The Merv Griffin Show is the most divisive episode"?  SIIIIIIIIIIIIMS is manufacturing dissent.

"Meanwhile, Kramer goes on a joyride test drive with a car dealer and it turns into a Thelma & Louise spoof,
another example of the show taking aim at movies that came out a
thousand years ago (seven, but still!). Since the dealership isn’t quite
the comedic goldmine of a setting that the restaurant and garage were,
it…

This all really sudden and shitty.

Lovitz or Leavitz

It's been 125 years. You'd think someone would come up with a different acronym by now. That one is getting pretty old, and with the majority of the students on grants and scholarships, pretty inaccurate.

That one hurt. I went there and I'm the incompetent middle class.

"I think more could have been made of George going to Rageaholics
Anonymous, while Hanky’s final freakout at the Baskin-Robbins is too
over-the-top. Or, conversely, the buildup to it isn’t over-the-top
enough."