God, apparently at this point only 13 people know what you're referencing. Makes me so sad.

I thought it was clearly a parody of some of the more, uh, vehement fans of this show that I've seen on a few sites. They all do seem to hate Girls (even more than your average internet commenter!), but surely they don't intend to take Lena Dunham out behind the shed and put her down like a dog. Or do they?

Well, I have no idea what anyone's saying on Twitter, but for me the problem is not that I wanted Cthulhu—it's that I did indeed know it was a character study and I wanted a better resolution to that. Instead, in the last two hours it turned into a rather conventional detective show with a predictable showdown with a…

TV, like all artistic mediums, is often built off of imitation, off of rebuilding things

Everything you're saying is valid and I don't really disagree. But I guess my problems aren't necessarily with, say, Rust having an awakening or Marty getting a tiny victory, but just with the manner in which it all happened. I didn't want or expect Marty to be redeemed, but I do wish his ex-wife and estranged kids…

I agree completely. I'm surprised this is an unpopular opinion, actually, because I was so utterly underwhelmed by the finale. Yeah, it was a fine police procedural, but the first six episodes were as compelling as (almost) anything I've seen on TV. I do understand that this show was a character study—and that's…

Maybe, but he also seems pretty introspective in his present-day interviews, right? He's been talking about how he let what truly mattered slip through his fingers, how he should have paid more attention to his wife and children. He doesn't seem to be harboring any aggression toward her or Rust in the interviews,…

Maybe I'm just a jingoist, but I'm kind of over the ubiquitous complaints about jingoism in American Olympics coverage. From what I've read/heard/seen, every competing country celebrates its own athletes, especially if they have a decent shot at a medal, and naturally most countries' coverage highlights the sports in…

Yeah, that's exactly how I feel. I'm kind of uninterested in all of the characters based on historical figures, actually, which I know is a minority opinion; still, I thought the original characters were so original that they made up for my lack of interest in the others. Van Alden's very entertaining, Chalky is…

My issue, I guess, is that I don't really accept that there was nothing else to do with Richard (and Jimmy before him, frankly). I mean, one could argue that there's no realistic way for Gillian (who's in prison) or Eli (who double-crossed Nucky and killed a Fed), or Margaret (who left Nucky) to get back into the…

I know he wouldn't. But honey, I promise, there are other guys out there who wouldn't either. Maybe even guys with half-faces! Never give up!

Yeah, Jimmy died in the finale, which was probably two episodes after Angela's death, IIRC. I remember the next episode after her death was about Jimmy falling apart in a hotel room and having flashbacks to that horrifying Parents' Weekend at Yale; in the next ep he returned to Atlantic City and Nucky promptly blew…

It's a lot like Jimmy's death to me, in that I'm extremely annoyed that a compelling character is gone. I know, I know—that's how Jimmy's story had to end, and I'm sure many will say that this is how Richard's had to end. I guess I find that reasoning unsatisfying because I can't help thinking that maybe their…

I loved Richard, but you know, there's a whole world of guys between "gentlemanly, half-faced war veteran killer" and "douchebag." It's not just one or the other!

I was annoyed when Jimmy died—I liked the character a lot—and now I'm pissed that they've killed off Richard too. He was the highlight of the show for me, in a cast full of interesting characters. Goddammit is right.

Yeah, it's not like lithium is thalidomide; I'm sure a large number of women have taken it before realizing they were pregnant, and that a large number have been advised to *keep* taking it because the benefits outweigh the risks. And I don't think fetal alcohol syndrome is caused by a few binges in early pregnancy;…

Almost always skips a generation? Says who? Holy shit, IS my family the most fucked up in history?

LOL. So I guess it really is possible it's Brody's, huh? I really thought my initial reading was wrong, because it just didn't make sense for Carrie to simply take pregnancy tests for weeks or months rather than doing something about it like a halfway intelligent adult. Or for a psych ward to just cross its fingers…

That would be okay, except surely after a few days she'd see a doctor to make absolutely sure they're false positives.

I would think she'd have had to take the lithium at the hospital, if only because you have to have periodic blood tests to adjust the levels, to make sure they aren't toxic. I don't know if the show is going for that level of realism, though, since if she was already pregnant they'd have found that out too. (Of…