Agreed, on the assumption that it was not her own acting choice to have Ava furiously scrubbing the counter as evidence of her inner turmoil—Noel's right, that felt far too Lady Macbeth to be believable

I really want Jinkx to win it all. Though part of her act is this almost anti-camp earnestness that I worry will mean she can't compete in a game where CAMP CAMP CAMP is the mantra.

Please do tell! Former evangelical ministers in Alabama are, I presume, not common among AVClub commenters, and I'd love to know more about your experience.

Brit TV fans: BBC2 has confirmed that the Hour isn't coming back. A sad day for lovers of 50s fashions and Ben Whishaw.

Also:

I'm so glad someone else is taking on this responsibility! Thank you! Where do you normally post this? Mondays in What's On Tonight?

Mostly I just mean that I want a Christopher Guest TV show.

When will someone (besides Louis CK) write Parker Posey the tv role she deserves?!

Oh my god. Did the genius emanate from it? Could you feel it?

"They don't even put on the sirens"

Completely. I think the MPDG thing is mostly about relationship—the girl is there to be taken (physically, emotionally, etc). She's a bottomless well from which the male character gets to drink and revive himself.

Oh, this is a really good point. It brings up another question: Which of the two is a more demeaning portrait of women? Usually I think of MPDG's as completely anti-feminist for exactly that reason—the women are objects of obsession and ultimately exist only to "enlighten" the male character. For this reason, I tend…

This is the perfect place to pose a question that's been needling me: Did Silver Linings Playbook feel like a 1930s/40s screwball romance to anyone else? It reminds me so much of movies like this one or Philadelphia Story, etc., and I can't quite pin down why.

Liz Imbrie! She is perhaps my favorite character of all time—man, Macauley Conner is lucky he's played by Jimmy Stewart. No one else could have pulled the shit he pulled and still have a chance with beautiful sarcastic photog queen Liz Imbrie.

Agreed. I think even the ditziest characters from 30s/40s romances avoid MPDG status. There's always some excuse for the ditziness—too rich and coddled being a common one. The women usually are aware of that and feel powerless because of it.

But low brow done by Nick Kroll and Harris Wittels is totally acceptable low brow. Harris's appearance alone bumped the episode up a grade for me. 

I like this news because I like Margo Martindale, but honestly I imagined Nick's mother to be, at least personality-wise, a pretty close match for Jess.

Do you think, now that Happy Endings has (ETA: POSSIBLY, hopefully not, but possibly, maybe, let's not jinx anything here, only possibly) seen its final days (RIP), we'll get Damon Wayans Jr back on New Girl, if only for a cameo??

I have to assume the only reason we haven't gotten a bio-pic of their romance is rights squabbling, because that tale begs to be a movie.

Add eyebrows and he'd be better.