Yeah, it's dumb, but all too common and unfortunately, if you look back to previous seasons going back to the pilot, in character.

The parents ate sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. Seems like Frank and Monica infecting the kids with the Gallagher curse is the theme of the season. I read someone speculating based on tonight that Ian may have inherited Monica's bipolar disorder, which would fit this theme.

Haven't even read the review yet…I haven't been physically shaken by an episode like that since the finale of Boardwalk Empire and Ozymandias on BrBa a few weeks before that…not sure how I feel about it yet, but damn, what a punch in the gut. Liam overdosing is nightmarish enough (particularly if you are the parent of…

I think this show is so far much better than the season reviews.

It started with a reasonable premise!?
It's been ridiculous, pulpy fun with some good characters and great set pieces from the start, and it remains so.

Did anyone else think the opening fingerbang on the train felt like a dream sequence? I kept thinking (and hoping) Fiona was about to wake up with a self-loathing look on her face.
As much as it hurts to see Fiona make these awful decisions—I just want to scream "I and every other straight male watching love you! Why…

Don't forget Cinemax with Banshee. Don't know why Amish are everywhere these days. Now excuse me while I go to the Mennonite bakery and get some cookies…

There really is something to the view of Eisner as the Orson Welles of comics—like Welles, he's endlessly creative, smart and formally brilliant, but subtle as a slap in the face. This doesn't bother me; I love 'em both.

I think his animated stuff was his best.

Got to agree with the academics here—most of the Beat stuff I've encountered is amateurish and borderline unreadable. They also inspired a shit-ton of horrible DIY poetry.

At least the opening titles fit the tone of the first two seasons. It was completely incongruous this year.

Already done it with the Piggy Man (and sort of Bloody Face.)

I frankly refuse to believe that we're in the minority when it comes to the second half of the season. This is as close to objectively bad as art can get. If it was music, the instruments would be out of tune; it's that shitty from a pure craft and competence point of view.

Yeah, one of the primal horror situations is "Is something horrible going down, or am I losing my fucking mind!?" As in Rosemary's Baby and countless others. This season didn't tap that at all.

But the character is what the writers write. Where was she portrayed as intelligent? Seems what you're saying is you like the actress, which hey, no argument.

I never read Entertainment Weekly anymore, but heard they ranked this abortion as the best show of the year. WTF? They didn't used to be THAT stupid. What the Hell happened to that magazine?

Misty gets no reprieve from me, after being so stupid she fell for Madison saying "Stand next to this open coffin and take off your enchanted protective shawl. I'm your friend, even though I'm constantly trying to destroy you, as you yourself have noticed!"

So Madison has the ability to literally control Frankenkyle like a puppet, not to mention pyrokinesis, telekinesis, teleportation…but he just strangles her?
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.

Agreed, the Whigham snub in the recap was an insult, especially on a show with so few supporting characters of note.

I think it was even more off than that—I've lived in the Deep South all my life, and Pentecostal tent revivalists don't cross themselves. Great to see Shea Whigham while I wait for the last season of Boardwalk, though.