Well, it's always kind of taken that tone, and as pointed out above, the subtext of "flyover country sucks" has become text.  Same with the show's stance that the governed are just mindless imbeciles who need to be told what to do by the noble technocrats and politicians.  That's always been there, but Leslie…

My parallel: the car I took to college (in 2001) was a 1988 Mercury Sable wagon, the same vintage as the Heck's, though I think theirs is the Taurus model.  And it was blue with fading paint to boot. 

It still won't be as bad as dealing with Brick's changing voice last season, when he was supposed to be, what, 11?

On the other hand, he's a competent, loving dad on TV.  Or at least as competent and loving as the moms, and that's nice to see. 

I think he's using the logic of "if you're not for us, you're against us."

As a Royals fan, I commiserate/celebrate with O's fans.  Two perennially bad teams who will finish with winning records and an exciting core of young players to give legitimate hope for next season.  Meaningful baseball in September is meaningful. 

Then when would I watch infomercials? 

They really took the fairly commonplace route of characterization via irony, but it's worked out pretty well.  Peralta is a slacker but great at his job, Jeffords is the cowardly muscle head, Diaz is 110 lbs of rage, etc. 

He's from the Bay area, but he has a family now. 

Duke is the current national champ as well. 

I liked it, but it did seem light on the laughs. 

I would actually guess that Hostages' target audience are pretty committed viewers of the CBS Evening News. 

Mediocre is generous.  Those shows are bad. 

The Asian thingy?  She has a name, @DDB9000:disqus!

KC and STL are two top-30 metro areas and probably make whatever pee-pee soaked heck hole you live in look like…a pee-pee soaked heck hole, with worse food. 

Come on.  I'm sure SnowJesse still would have found some way to disappoint Walt.

Also, when Huel disappeared, he thought it was because Jesse killed him.  So yes, he was running from the police and what he still believes was Jesse's warpath. 

They did a Mythbusters on suppressed handguns and they determined that movie sound effects (or at least one movie's sound effect) were "accurate."  Of course, we have no decibel comparison, so it's not like it's a legitimate experiment, but I think it's safe to say that the neighbors could have heard Todd's shot.  The…

@avclub-705562aaa4a5b85bfa44373d8e6bf234:disqus It's more than reasonable for most people to not know the distinction between Nazis or neo-Nazis and the Aryan Brotherhood or any other prison gang.  What I find unreasonable is that so many posters seemed to take offense at the commenters tying to make the distinction. 

Someone tried to make that distinction recently.  For no reason at all, the response was aggressively negative.