Charlie Kauffman's fake brother was nominated for an Oscar for Adaptation.

Downvote for use of series instead of season.

I haven't gone back through to re-read the comments since Tuesday, so someone may have already made the point I'm about to. While co-dependence is usually portrayed a bad thing, I don't think it was a coincidence that the episode that examined the group's codependency took place at a wedding. A wedding where Garret…

Agreed. To a certain extent, it's not his fault that other people go overboard with praise for him, and the backlash is really against his worshipers and not actually him. But at the same time, he has tried to cultivate his outsider, little guy, authentic comedian persona while costarring in King of Queens and The…

That's a pretty big "if."

The feel of this episode was definitely different. I don't ever recall an episode that had the same vibe, so on that level, it absolutely falls under the "Community's not what it used to be" heading. That said, it was probably one of, if not the, funniest episodes of the season.

The show really had glacial pacing, punctuated by the occasional episode where a whole lot happened.

I was just thinking about that, too. At the show's beginning, Campbell felt entitled to everything he wanted, and over the course of the series, he actually earned it. Harry had the opposite route - he made himself indispensable early on, and later realized he deserved more than he was getting, and turned into the…

I'm not going to tell you how to spend your money, but if you're reviewing forgettable 24-year-old movies, you might have too many writers on staff.

I'm glad Peggy turned Joan down, The whole "Joan becomes a commercial producer" story line fell the most flat to me, especially in execution; she was running it out of her home? Really? Even though she's rich and not afraid of losing money because of Roger taking care of her kid? And besides, Joan's instincts are…

Add to that the fact that the Coke ad is the exact opposite of the Miller Light concept Don walked out on: instead of a very specific man who turns out to be very generic, it's an ad filled with generic people who convey a very specific message. I immediately interpreted it to mean Don wrote it, but of course Weiner…

Sal did, and it got him written off the show.

Hearing from a perspective besides Harmon might be nice. Like a Sony executive talking about how everyone begged to be the one who got to tell Harmon he was fired, and what the decision making process was like to bring him back.

The car crash setup and bouncing back and forth between Wayward Pines and the real world (to the extent Seattle is the real world - boom, roasted) reminded me of the NBC show a few years ago, Awake. I liked that show, and the the conceit that the main character never knew which, if either, world was real was a nice…

The Middle does fine in the ratings; I don't think it was ever really in doubt that it would be renewed. But it doesn't have a lot of buzz, and it never really did. I don't think that's a problem with the show or the public, it's a problem with entertainment news media. I think that people who write about TV want…

Yeah, I think Tina's threatening video is a funnier concept, but Kent's
video was funnier in execution. It was so bizarre but fully formed, with the
synth music and his shirtless pose, I felt like it had to be a reference to something. And that he was so proud of himself and was looking around for approval when…

I think The Middle is plenty ambitious, in that it wants to be really good, and is really good.

I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say you've pretty much seen everything he does. He's very one-note, but it is a very funny note.

Yeah, I definitely thought the whole scene with Jeff's emotional speech and them watching The Sting was all part of the grift.

Community was never pre-concept. The pilot was a blatant homage to John Hughes, made even more obvious by the coincidence of his death shortly before it aired.