et tu, Eli?

I'd amend that to Rust had a more interesting thing to say, but now he's said it so many times that it's starting to get boring.

ELI!
Best episode so far, with a real sense of forward momentum. At this point I'm almost more interested in Marty, because as good as the performance is, Rust is getting a little one note.
Still think the show's biggest problem is the dearth of interesting supporting characters. Also, the pilot got several laughs out…

Yes it is hard to quibble too much with an episode that shows Fiona getting banged while wearing ripped fishnet stockings. I felt like the wolf in the old Tex Avery cartoons.

The end of last season started playing up how Frank is basically Lip's Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and this season that theme is being extended to Frank's other kids, either through direct similarity or through the father-figure shaped hole he left in them (Debbie, although this thread really goes back to the…

While not as hypnotic as season 1—surface-level shows like this generally only get the chance to bowl you over once—I'm enjoying season 2 quite a bit so far. Kai scaring off the thugs with bats and Hood vs. that enormous Indian were pure gold.

She's dumb as a box of rocks, though.

I lost any lingering affection for Misty when Madison took out her out by basically saying "WHAT'S THAT BEHIND YOU!?" and knocking her over the head.

Especially because still there is no compelling reason for Franenkyle to exist.

Is Zoe the worst protagonist ever? I ask in earnest.

Which is about the point my hope for fun evaporated. Coincidence?

YES to phoning it in. The old pros can cover it, but the performances of the youngsters screams "no longer give a shit." I praise the professionalism of the former but won't condemn the latter because who can blame them?

It's higher on Metacritic, but those reviews are generally from the few early episodes sent out to critics. I don't read any other recaps, but I really hope no one is still defending it at this point. If anyone is, I question their Earthly origin.

Relatively probably a C based on how the last, I don't know, seven or so episodes have resulted in an extremely generous grade curve, objectively probably a D, but in the big picture F for being a fairly boring, semi-coherent penultimate episode to a stupefyingly boring, ludicrously incoherent travesty of a season…

Sadly, I couldn't care less.

I think it's safe to say after tonight that Bassett and Bates were both monumentally wasted. There really wasn't a point to either character. But really, what has there been a point to this wreck of a season?

I keep hearing understandable puzzlement over this being the most well-reviewed season, and it is based on the "season" reviews based on the first few episodes, but are some actually still defending it in weekly reviews? I cannot fathom that possibility. This honestly seems to me like a season written by high…

Yeah Huston is good (though nephew Jack is better) but Al Swearengen is one of the best performances I've ever seen—a perfect bit of casting as well. However, Sexy Beast notwithstanding, MacShane isn't great at cherry picking roles either, fun as Murder Santa was.

I'm curious, are any professional critics, or hell even regular people, defending this mess? I ask because this seems to me the most amateurishly constructed season of a serial drama I've ever seen.

The very notion that these characters are still living together and just going about their business after a whole seasons worth of openly plotting each others destruction is just hilarious. I honestly cannot believe how poorly crafted this season is—it's like a couple of high school kids got the chance to write a…