You have to concede he's totally mastered the fine art of non-ironic, ironic self-promotional faux-deprecation.

The plot was pretty think this season as a whole, but maybe that was the point. The longer the show airs, the worse it gets with Russia in real life. Tensions are escalating to the point where it's plausible Philip and Elizabeth are never exposed, but spy into old age as undercover suburban grandparents in the year…

Mande's Netflix special is a perfectly fine way to kill an hour. (If your options are severely limited. Like if you can't move after tripping on a rug in front of your TV and you pressed the remote play button trying to catch your fall, for example.) Or at least a half hour.

Without passing any judgment on Mande's skills as a comedian, he's not very funny.

Ozark isn't Breaking Bad, but it's better than a C-, particularly as the season progresses. The twist here and what separates it from many other high-concept tv dramas (mild spoiler ahead) is that the secret of the protagonists is known by almost all the characters, even the kids. It's nice to skip the "will they…

Darkness Falls

Clapping Chuck farewell at HHM … the best slow-walk-down-the-stairs scene since Notorious.

A legal malpractice insurance hike playing a pivotal role in a character's death must be a TV first.

Or if they do, it's for five seconds…re: Gus.

Yeah, that would be too obvious.

But WW died clinging to it. Chuck died after tossing his law books on a pile of rubble.

The season finale brings back yet another familiar character that we know ultimately dies: Blockbuster Video

Irene doesn't settle lawsuits. She settles scores.

The season really makes you think about the law. Chuck always said he revered the law, but it offered him nothing to fall back on as his life and relationships turned to ashes. Most simply defined, the law is a system of rules to regulate conduct. But that misses the human element. “Compassion is the chief law of…

Does Irene fake reconciliation and hire Mike to eliminate the 'friends' who ganged up on her? Speaking of which, where was Mike?

Fantastic episode. If the writers were trying to prove how non-essential Erlich is to the show, they succeeded. TJ Miller's absence from the main action felt like a weight lifted off of everybody's shoulders.

That was a lazy, self-indulgent performance. Hardly a single laugh in the whole hour.

Chuck retires and devotes his life to writing an exhaustive study of the Commerce Clause. The day it's published, Chuck is sipping champagne when a constitutional scholar calls him to point out an error repeated throughout the book: The Commerce Clause appears in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, not Article 3 Section…

Jimmy really has a difficult relationship with twins.

The trick of the season was bringing back Gus and weaving him into the narrative without relegating Nacho to the background. It looks like they're really pulling it off.