Actually, my single favorite Veep line contains no profanity at all. Last season, when Ben is still working for the about-to-be-impeached previous POTUS, there's a scene where Ben is presiding over a desperate flurry of activity in the West Wing and he commandingly barks out to a roomful of panicked staffers, "Burn…

IMO, she's doing the funniest work of her career on Veep. Anybody who isn't watching is missing out!

My problem with Del is the exact same problem I had with Stevie on Eastbound And Down. There is a certain kind of person who finds homely, pathetic idiots to be intrinsically hilarious, and laughs harder and harder as they get endlessly tortured and humiliated without ever understanding what's happening to them or…

That trailer’s still doused in gasoline isn’t it?

All good points!

No, the implication is that Blaine needs to be captured and interrogated. Not killed, or at least not yet. Once he has given up his client list, the infected can then be rounded up and treated (if possible) or exterminated (if not) with less risk to the population. One disease vector deliberately choosing…

If they can be cured, then no, they're not.

They buy drugs they need to survive. That is a pretty heartless definition of complicity.

Some of them are. Some are innocent victims that Blaine infected in order to gain access to their money or position. And Ravi is worried about their survival, so until he changes his mind, I think we should be too.

Liv is unconcerned because she knows she's going to have to kill Blaine and expects his organization to crumble after him… which shows that she's a doctor and not a policewoman.

For non-epic (2nd edition) characters, I believe the preferred method of dealing with B.F.F. is to cast Fly on oneself over and over again, followed by Meteor Swarm centered on the site once one has reached a height of 99 miles (a packed lunch is advisable, as this requires over 145 hours of travel + casting).

I thought that the Asian contortionist bit had a kind of weird brilliance, in that his only task was to distract Sy by doing what every mouth-breathing dudebro in the world immediately asks about when they hear the words "Asian contortionist."

I like those odds!

He was the most recent capture, even! Myself, I forgot how much fun Evil Spartacus/Weather Wizard was. Glad he escaped to be pointlessly hostile another day.

I can see it now that LaToya's brought it up, especially in re: the Nurse Beth as Manuel stuff, but at the time it went right over my head. I'm not as familiar with Fawlty Towers as I should be, but Sy Mittleman's character doesn't really map closely enough to Basil Fawlty's combination of arrogance, peevishness, and…

Hey, it works in Hamlet. All the dramatic tension about who will act when and how it will play out, and who winds up with the throne of Denmark at the end? Fucking Fortinbras?

This is your rifle, this is your sword. One when you're angry, one when you're bored.

There's a line of dialogue indicating they spent six weeks at Lallybroch before the Watch arrived. I had no trouble incorporating that information into the various on-screen relationships without it actually being shown; as a stereotypical "guy watcher" who prefers the plot stuff to the romance/mood stuff, I couldn't…

Wow, in that first pic she looks like nobody so much as Jack Gleeson.

I felt so sorry for poor Bud in this episode. With the little he was told about what was going on, it has to look like Nick (his hero) has busted up his long-term relationship by cheating on Juliette and getting the side piece pregnant. His mild acknowledgement that "These things happen" has to be covering up a lot…