I really enjoyed this one — I can't pretend there was any deep reason for it, I just laughed a lot.  Right from the start, with the awkward gay porn role play (culminating in Liz going a bit too far), I was laughing and allowing the show to push me against a wall and have its way with me.

OK, in the time it took me to read the  first two pages of comments, two more pages showed up, so if this point has been made already — woops!

I agree.  Enjoyed the first 3 or 4 episodes or so, but once it became apparent that (a) the entire universe of the show would be populated by quirky quirks from quirkville, and (b) almost all of whom would be insufferable, I lost interest fast.  It just felt like it wasn't going anywhere, and I didn't see the point of…

Big improvement over last week, IMO.  Still a bit heavy-handed on the theme — it's Shit on Pete Campbell week over at Mad Men, everybody! — but it worked for me because it was character-driven, and it's nice to pause and get inside someone's head for a bit.

I have to admit, sadly, that I have never seen Archer, so my Jon Benjamin fandom comes entirely from Dr. Katz (and the occasional cameo on KITH or Venture Bros.)  Really, though, he's forever Dr. Katz' son.

I'm still on the "every episode of season 5 is awesome" train.  Love both of these.

I'm sorry, have you watched the show this year?  Or, given the reference to staplers-in-Jello, have you watched it since season 1?

One thing I really love about "Fortune and Men's Weight" is how the relationship trouble really has nothing to do with the magic scale, but they still find a way to tie the two together in an atmospheric, theatrical way.  As other commentors have pointed out, Diane's frustration at the limits of what she can…

No mention of Breaking Bad?  TOTAL FAIL.

True, but in particular since this write-up talked about the band audition . . . that one was pretty tough to sit through.  The series heaps a good amount of humiliation on its cast, but nothing that, say, Sam endured goes anywhere near the depths of true "cringe comedy."  But that band audition… yikes.  I give Jason…

I'm loving these write-ups, but I do have to admit that I'm not the biggest F&G fan.  Maybe it would have been different if the show had lasted just a little longer and I could have enjoyed it the way I enjoy shows like Community — i.e. with a rabid internet fanbase helping to stoke my interest on a weekly basis.  But…

Usually I watch this show (and most shows) in a deliberately passive way, not trying to "figure it out" or interpret it until I've seen the whole episode, if not the whole season (See, David Simon?  You have to like me!)  * ahem * *attempts to retrieve dignity *

No, I require convincing because the article itself goes on at some length about the various allegations about him, and then says it is "more than made up for" by "charity work," which is very vague and not really good journalism.

"Kinkade more than made up for his alleged sins with his laudable charity work"??

I don't think he comes across as passive-aggressive or pedantic or anything like that.  He got annoyed, in a way that makes sense to me, to see a complex narrative with many moving parts reduced to a horse race by people who ignored the show when it was struggling for viewers and in constant threat of cancellation. …

Sigh, apparently "edit" means "just go ahead and type a new comment," so feel free to ignore my trigger-happy premature "enter." 

As always I love season 5 episodes, but I admit to an irrational bias with "Soul Purpose" — I just was so tickled by the Jaws reference in the "hollowed out" dream sequence, it gets me every time.

My default reaction to every discussion of Season 5:  "I loved these episodes…"

Partial translation:  People should stop saying season five was a complete waste of time that sucked donkey balls and betrayed everything that had been great about the Wire.

Well, you're right, he wasn't a rival in the same way the others were.  But he was introduced as a natural rival for Rebecca's affection, and then he swindled Sam out of some money, and that point was continuously invoked for some time.  Plus, like Hill, he was someone who was openly contemptuous of the gang at…