The easy option for a shock line would have been for him to make some 'hilarious' gay gags to Oscar, but I guess that probably would have got his ass fired.

Saint Michael
I'm now starting to come around to the criticism that the show is being hagiographic towards Michael. We know he's the lead and the ostensible hero of the piece but we also have seven years worth of intel on the guy, and whitewashing him at this stage is pointless

St. Elmo's steakhouse…St. Elmo's Fire…Rob Lowe….Parks & Recreation.

The Ron Loves Meat well is one they mustn't go to so often or else it'll ruin it, but it's still pretty damn funny at the minute.

I'm hoping Raffi shows up again, preferably in a scene with Jean-Ralphio.

@edked - I'm delighted that you enjoyed them, however that's irrelevant. The AV Club are not in the business of doing recaps, they do in-depth, analytical reviews. Zulkey's write-ups were obviously the former, so they didn't fit the standard expected and people were rightly annoyed.

OH. IT. IS. ON!

I accept that.

Does it make me a bad person that by the end of the TV awards season I was sick to death of seeing Temple Grandin's face?

I actually rather liked Free Agents, I could never get on board with Pulling though.

A mortal lock
Basically they just want to guarantee more nominees to lose to Downton Abbey.

Yeah, Sharon Horgan is hot. And very funny, which makes her all the hotter.

Jesus, who would buy a cooking-based reality show on DVD?!

Hip Hop
In a couple of interviews Stoute claims that the Grammy's are too old fashioned to understand or appreciate rap/hip-hop. What a load of shit. If that were true then why are there FIVE specifically rap categories (as well as an 'urban' category and seven R&B categories).

With that haircut Hansel isn't so hot right now.

Thanks to our incredibly lenient TV rules we get the US version in England unedited.

Oh Gordon, my Gordon
The world would be a much colder place if we didn't have Gordon Ramsay calling some fat pizza chef from Jersey a "fucking donkey" on TV each year.

It's not that we pretend it didn't happen, it's just that there's no need to bring it up. Everytime he brings out a movie are we expected to trot out the story of how he tried to do himself in? Or can we just let him do his job?

Isn't it just Oscar in a hoody?

Hello….Newman
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