Any chance the first sentence in the review tomorrow is '“It was all a dream” is one of the cheapest conceits in all of fiction.'?

I agree with a lot of your thoughts and I like that it's coming across in the media coverage and interviews that this season is a return to form, and not just season 3 form, but better.

Rick (who actually seems like the voice of Harmon in the show - anyone know how involved Dan actually is in the writing of the show?) makes it pretty clear in that episode that he thinks Inception is stupid.

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Seeing as how today is the last calendar day that this review is relevant, I have a question.

On Vince Gilligan's role:

'I myself have used the example of Jeff coming back as a teacher as an example of what the show could be if it was bad, you know? [Laughs] I specifically alluded to that and said, "Oh, Jeff's not gonna grow a beard and become a teacher. Don't worry about that, because time moves on and blah, blah, blah." Obviously…

Great read. Loved his side of how he got invited back.

My condolences to Carlton, Will, Ashley, Hillary, and Vivian.

I don't think you can overstate just HOW much worse AITF is compared to the rest of the series, even many of the other terrible season 4 episodes. It's one of the worst things I've ever seen on network TV.

'Will Harmon manage to keep things on budget without imploding?'

Any chance of a Todd review of season 5 before Thursday's premiere, or has he finally washed his hands of the show.

VH1.

Anyone watching the 57 episode Happy Endings marathon?

The more of these articles I read, the more convinced I am that Dan Harmon getting fired for a season was a net positive for the show.

double post.

Alan: 'I was skeptical because the third season was spotty at times, especially the latter part, and it can be very hard to recapture that after a while, but Harmon is back and the show gets much better very quickly'

Can returning creator Dan Harmon fix what went awry during his one-year absence? And, for fans who weren't crazy about the Harmon-run third season, can the college comedy recapture the lighter pleasures of the first two years? Harmon has said the goal is to first focus on making the characters human again, and he'll…

Am I imagining this or was it mentioned in one of the dozen season 5 articles that one of the stories in an episode this season is how Britta went from the unattainable hot chick buzzkill she was season 1 to the total goofball she was in later seasons? Because that's pretty cool. Also I think that was a direct…