But he had the oven the whole time & she couldn't get an oven to bake her pie—which she only chose because everything else besides biscuits were taken. If she'd had the oven, the crust would not have been undercooked.

Congratulations Dennis Perkins on a beautifully written review that doubled the pleasure & doubled the fun of a well-crafted episode & illuminated its context. It's so much easier to critique the missteps and inconsistencies of disappointing shows/episodes or to riff on the time period/series history to service fans…

And yet almost any other character from that show would be funnier, because Shawn wouldn't be all that wise. Quite possibly they fear her or him because of her or his arbitrary, quirky, or difficult to implement judgements.

Atlanta is brilliant, erratic, evocative and not at all conventionally "funny " the way TGP is. Maybe because it is so real and rooted in current events. Well worth watching in order because the characters are deeply consistent and worth your time, but the focus & format varies wildly from episode to episode. If you…

Yes, so much holiday travel is concentrated right around the actual holidays to get somewhere and back for the specific family event, many students have a long break they spend working at their high school part time jobs, seeing high school friends and/or partying & taking day trips close to home base. No doubt media…

Even iceskating competitions break for the holidays. It's pretty much the Doctor Who Christmas Day Special, midnight mass from Vatican City, and movies about squabbling families who realize how much they love each other(Home for the Holidays, 1995 with RDjr every ten years works).

Tears. Brilliant. Hope tho they don't saddle him with lame election rerun impersonation skits.

Predictable, slow-moving, implausible, and full of cliched, stilted speechifying passing for dialogue. Next week I'll fast forward everything except Kal Penn.

Much like Rose McIver, you are?

Gillian Anderson, all Geoffreys, Javiers, Juans, Aarons, and Stephens besides Steph Curry might not agree. Altho yu and I might say"Enuff! to nonfonetic spelling!"

Yes, it works for those …..occasions? situations? & also adds a bit of humor to the also far from rare situation where one participant considers the passion as the manifestation of soulmateness & the other isn't saying. Sometimes you do't say "I love you" for fear of commitment, but sometimes it's just being honest.

Yes & why couldn't it be true? What tickles me tho is that in the writer's room for this show, PitBull is shorthand for all the lowerclass tastes that it's assumed Tahani would be too much of a snob to be open to—-while in the Atlanta writer's room, he's used to skewer the snobbery of hip hop hipsters.

It's my ringtone for "Mom."

What show does that "estranged father comes to kid's big event without ever telling him" come from?

Yes, that would have been more realistic last year before it was exposed. Tho in this nebulous version of US it's not clear if Obama administration ever existed to be exposed & put into place new guidelines. Do we even know if it's 2009 or 20019? All I noticed was that it's been a while since 9/11 & the pres who died…

Every episode so far was riveting until this. the dialogue & plot was so overblown, predictable, tedious and repetitive that it unsuspended my disbelief & made me aware of actors acting. No suspense at all, just rehash.

I've only watched it in reruns, and only the past six months. It's on an obscure channel called CLOO or something like that with ads for wrinkle cream.

Did you ever see the episode centered on the Tienamen Square Massacre? Later seasons were unique for trying(clumsily) to show respect for Chinese culture, portray Chinese-Americans as Americans, and still make the Maoist government a major source of villains. They never made Asian actors use an accent, even when they…

Gwen is right—the kept the ticks but lost the character. Even in the worst episodes, MacGyver was long-suffering, kind to children, polite & patient, and scarred by an amazing number of woman he wanted to marry who rejected him to become nuns or forest rangers yet always supportive of brainy independent women doing…

Yes, similarly the later female sidekick first played a different one-off role. And the villains kept repeating under different names.