Boring, adolescent male porny, and repetitious rather than evocative of previous seasons preoccupations(ie. Don has sex with stewardesses, models & any other woman he fancies but it does not fill the whole inside him & hie's only a father every third episode or so, but it's all very….meaningful. Heavy -handed use of…

Yes ironic for a failed writer to claim, because of course the immediate response would be that the Irish are writers,singers, and declaimers—bards before readers!

Romance?

Only if they flash forward to the 80s

I guess the unseen Shaylene is some kind of homage to a sitcom trope, but maybe because it's so tired there's not much intrigue to it.

Plus lying straight out about a murder to an innocent bride & fixing $975 of parking tickets went far beyond casual city cop influence peddling—-yet were played for being cute, not as any contradiction /complexity for the character or any of his coworkers. Small stakes yes but abusing his position not in the name…

The camera angles did not often resonate with the tortured plot & dialogue, so seemed like filler and distractions from the recurrent irritations, like why the frail Hardy can't call any local cop who's actually on duty when someone reports an imminent assault & insists on handling it all himself. Yes, the scenery is…

Yes, but wouldn't it be close enough to have a few average Arab Americans depicted as part of community life ?

But why did the troubled son have to be black? And where is Michigan's Arab-American community?

Worth an A just for Kalpen's reaction shots (to Agnew as stripper, to Guzewicz deadpan confirmation that yes, 17 boyfriends, etc.) He manages to evoke a whole backstory reality of their partnership without the clunky exposition most shows use. When he does give them more time(remember, he's been hosting two other…

A.V. Club, please pay this person to write reviews!

Painfully repetitious in themes & so boring/overacted that the illogic of the Cyrus story was highlighted. Wasn't he mad in lust with Michael? On such a sex positive show, wouldn't that be a possible bridge to more than another marriage of convenience for him? Some of the Cyrus actors's overacting was unintentionally…

What would make it meta instead of almost meta?

Yes, perfect speed & tone for the show: not quite superhero/every cop show fantasy or satire but surprisingly real(if you've ever automatically chased after a bag grabber) while being true to the characters: young, gutsy city-dwellers who walk daily& don't wear 4 inch heels to do it & have a hysterical mix of…

Wish I'd kept that one dvr'd—but weren't Jane & M at a low point then? MIchael has been very strategic in withholding information until it's to his advantage. And if i remember correctly, he accepted Xo's gratitude & the advantage it gave him in solidifying her "Team Michael"ness .
Thinking back, hie kept…

Esclavo De Sus Besos was perfect for the dream, but so wished they'd given him a part in the plot instead of that dumb endless not funny & illogical dog sequence. Too much impotent Rafael not standing up to Petra & Petra bugging out her eyes. Why didn't they give DB some scenes with Rogelio or at least a whole song!!!

Wonderful! Glad this AV writer appreciates —the Battle Creek reviewer seemed ignorant/oblivious to Dean Winters.

Carrie's acting has gotten so nuanced. She was perfect as the smug entitling mother and the impassive goth. This episode seemed so cohesive, rather than flipfloping between sketches with the same two actors as the main connection, which tended to put the focus on Fred & Carrie dressup & thwart any suspension of…

Yes, even the closed captions got dat right!

Subtle Conceptual comedy & Tennant-level mugging: a smile out loud combination.