He was also the worst aspects of nerd revenge fantasy writ large. He seems awesome (and totally is in many ways), but he's also an absurd, overly-violent orgy of self absorbtion. Young Adult was amazing.

I was so happy to the Patton Oswalt guest star credit

Also I'm not too sure if that scene from Y Tu Mama, Tambien really counts, does it? It's been a while since I've seen it but although she dances towards the frame there's not really an acknowledging of the audience from what I can recall. Oh look! Is that another nit? Let's go pick at it.

Shadow of the Vampire! Shadow of the VAMPIRE! For the love of God, won't someone think of the vampires!?!

I think they're practical and they brand a lifestyle

Strangely both s4 and s5 started really strongly with some interesting character dilemmas (remember the Washington trip and Leslie feeling deeply inadequate?) that almost immediately seemed to disintegrate once the arc of the season started up. It's a pity the writers never seem to commit to exploring those real…

In exchange for North Korean corpses. Not sure if that exchange makes it free will.

'Zactly, this. It's a moot debate as to whether Amy is a good or bad person given that the premise of the show is about how fundamentally irrelevant such categories are and how contradictory and complex the reasons for a person's actions can be completely abstract of the evaluation of those actions as good or bad.

At least his raging, absurd stupidity was actually thematized as a character trait (that mini-movie proves that Justified is actually just a live-action Archer spoofing Westerns instead of Spy Thrillers) rather than being obvious plot-manipulation by the writers. The worst stupidity is fluctuating, plot-convenient…

I hope it kicks in some kind of larger development in character ambition as well; finding out that they're not only intent on controlling him but that his businesses that he thought were his own enterprises are calculated by others as a form of class-control.

I hate those raised-eyebrow racists. They're such hypocrits, hiding their prejudice under their upper-facial hair.

My favorite irrational Girls criticism is how it is clearly an elaborate metaphor to excuse the morality of corporate-sponsored excursions to hunt human beings in New Guinea

I kind of liked the red herring of giving him lines in order to kill him, just for the "oh what the FUCK?" character of his face exploding. But as you mention, its how death is used to return the group to status quo instead of to increase dramatization that is frustrating as all hell.

Yeah, I like how the show doesn't moralize on privilege. Being priviliged DOES allow you to be a better parent (as in, do more for your children's benefit); but that doesn't make its distribution any more just.

I actually preferred the character study that, as you say, was the focus in season 1. However I appreciate that they felt it had played out and changed their narrative shape to stay fresh. Successsful reinvention beats out consistency for creative achievement in my book.

"What do they do in the movies? They go through the vents!"

There is a pretty heavy disparity between the amount that Hannah is depicted naked and, well, every other character. I don't know if you could call it an aspect of show; at most it would be a character trait.

"Lana! This must be what's it's like to have sex with me!" - "How can an airboat be selfish?"

I think Jeff letting her down is almost a given, especially given Amy's tendency to confuse the vested interests of people with self-affirming attention being so heavily thematized. Of course it could all end with Amy going totally Sunset Boulevard and breaking entirely with reality to float away in her own beautiful,…

It's certainly easier to like and enjoy than "Consider Helen", which perhaps makes it harder to judge their comparitive merits. "Helen" was great, but brutal.