My friend badgered me into watching it, but had the bad fortune of wearing me down mid season 3, the ferry crash episode specifically. I don't doubt that there's better arcs/episodes/seasons but that wasn't the best place to come in probably…

Oh yay, a chance to jump on my favorite soapbox!

I know one dude on a music site I frequent claims that Simple Minds recorded the first post-rock song. That sounds preposterous but…

As far as I'm concerned the post rock canon is basically Hex, Disco Inferno's The Five EPs, Tortoise's Gamera and Hood's Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys. This gateway and I are just barely on speaking terms.

I'll go so far as to defend Give Yourself a Hand as one of the better 'the alt-rockers are kinda discovering techno!' albums that hte late 90s shat out. When they got a bit weird and off-model it really worked for them somehow…
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@avclub-6411921ec5c0aa363b48d775298f5dc5:disqus  I've just started going through Blue Jam and I'm half inclined to agree…the TV Lizards sketch in particular works much better without the visuals somehow. The music choices are great as well.

Chris Morris is responsible for so many instances of me laughing because I have no idea how else to react to what I've just seen/heard that singling one particular piece of it feels far too reductionist.That said, Paedogeddon is probably as good a one to mention as any. Jam had a few sketches that rival it for comedy…

"I just think they're neat" should be up there too.

@avclub-f0a25fc22f6198ce61fe90730dc075e1:disqus - unless they're women AMIRITE?

Ken Finkelman, fuck yeah.

As relatively bad as Co-Pilot is, on re-watch I found myself really liking the Dutch/Claudette stuff that barely merits a mention in the article itself. It's pat and obvious on a lot of levels but I'm a sucker for Claudette being good police and Dutch realizing that for all his hero worship of Gannon that she's the…

No such thing as too much PJ Harvey, sorry.

My sister's a big fan and I'm pretty sure Lullabies was her first/favorite so maybe that's the key.

Especially the ending…

Minority opinion: Sleep's Holy Mountain >>> Dopesmoker.

If they were imaginative you could have been branded 'firecrotch' #silverlining

I think it's more that when they have constant reminders of their family's foibles they resist them but when they're left to their own devices they unwittingly embrace them.

I do not get the general dislike for Red Hairing (pacing aside because that's an across the board issue.) Watching Lindsay sell out and become the Bluth she always was no matter how hard she tried to hide it was almost as devastatingly hilarious as Michael's downward spiral and having the two directly contrasted was a…

I did it in chunks of five episodes at a time which worked pretty well, especially the first chunk where the first Tobias episode acted like the light at the end of a mildly frustrating tunnel.

The plot contortions get a lot less labored as the season progresses - I think the seventh episode is where things fully come together give or take a few character perspectives - but I was in more or less the same place after the fourth episode.