Also Turing was a genius, germaphobe and persecuted homosexual, so that's pretty close to a lock. Not sure how much of that got into the movie though.

It's basically a bunch of kids doing Sweeney Todd, but with a Christmas theme

" You know, "nerd culture" is mainstream now. So, when you use the word "nerd" derogatorily, it means you're the one that's out of the zeitgeist"

I think my favorite jokes of the episode were still, 1) every time someone fail to coherently finish a sentence/line of thought, 2) Coach slowly realizing he had talked himself into producing a small, black child out of nowhere.

Really? I've always enjoyed Boardwalk, but it has always been one of those shows that I felt never quite lived up to its potential.

Better go on a killing spree to remind them!

Wait, you liked this show? I couldn't tell

My frustration is mostly from a writing standpoint, in that almost all the most promising character arcs and relationships have been ended without feeling like they reached their full potential. Like why the fuck has Margaret been sidelined for like, three seasons?

Yup, and despite how much was made of it in the review, this wasn't really a "Schmidt's second chance" story, since in the problem and resolution were essentially brought up and dealt with in the same episode. It was much more of a "gotta get my mojo back" kind of a story. Schmidt's real striving and second chance…

I certainly hope it continues, I much prefer it to You're the Worst, although the two shows aren't really comparable. Reminds me a touch of Enlightened, with a more quotidian milieu. I'm hoping it's brevity and low-keyness means that it is very cheap to produce and therefore will have a good shot at continuing in the…

Accurate, although by contrast all the elements you named as making it hard to like are the things I like about it.

But don't you understand? Science and faith MUST be opposed, because they are in NO WAY historically or epistemically related.

Look, the show is shit, no one really argues otherwise. It's just a case of whether you find it fun, B-movie shit or pull-my-hair-out-"Oh my god, why is this so stupid!" shit. Personally, I'm on the side of B-movie fun, although that could be my del Toro bias showing.

I kind of wish they had kept up the ambiguity of the mythology surrounding the god of happiness and the god of chaos. The point where it is declared that you cannot tell them apart is definitely the height of the show's "mythic" aspect. Not that it was ever the show's greatest strength.

Yeah, binging definitely built a degree of attachment, although I doubt it will ever be a must see show. Fun, and admirably willing to go beyond the comfortable levels of weird are its strengths.

Also worth noting, in the original accusation it was framed against a definition of plagiarism based upon the standards of academic writing, which really aren't applicable to a work of art. Sure, in an academic article you must properly acknowledge and cite sources, but in a narrative work of fiction applying such…

'"Does your mum look different?" A Wilfred lampshading!" - actually they lampshaded the cast change last week, with Baldwin saying he "did a cleanse", which is repeated by Wilfred this week. I got a chuckle out of the call back.

I strongly suspect the pacing will view better once the season is complete and you can binge watch it, given the degree to which it seems to be structured more like a movie than a week-to-week show. At least I tell myself that in my head.

I thought reverse-racism was supposedly a persecution complex, wherein after facing discrimination against yourself you begin to see all actions as expressions of discrimination? That was my understanding, anyway.

Yeah, Lockout and that one sequence in Mass Effect 2 are the only examples in pop-culture I can think off, and my knowledge of trash pop-culture B-movie sci-fi is distressingly wide.