Maybe Shane got lost?

Agreed.  I thought the Ashley Schaeffer character was hilarious in season one, and Will Ferrell didn't really ramp up his performance or anything.  But the character of Schaeffer was only funny when he was anachronistically evoking the Gothic South while selling BMW's to yuppies.  That disconnect fueled the character.

It's to the show's enormous credit that the viewer remains ambivalent about Hank all the way through to the end.  On camera, he's mostly competent — at his best he's a downright perfect comic foil for Larry — and the wider audience almost never sees the full extent of his pathetic egomania or his genuine stupidity.

Glad I'm not the only one who was bothered by Charlie's self-pitying "Wish I did" line after nearly two full seasons of watching him bang an implausible series of 90 gorgeous women (often using his cache as a powerful Hollywood agent to do so). This is a character archetype that only exists in TV — the George…

Of course, in real life, people who date/marry their parent-of-the-opposite-sex are usually recreating the basic script of their childhood, rather than dating someone who *looks* exactly like their parent.  The final joke in this episode may be a bit broad in that respect, because it's pretty unlikely that nobody in…

I think the answer implied by the ending of this episode is more or less correct — Margaret really loved Hank, and probably wasn't consciously aware that she was working through some creepy daddy issues.  Beyond that whole mess (which would have ended the relationship anyway once she inevitably realized it), they got…

I think if there was ever a "mystery show" that was mapped out in its entirety from the beginning, it's Carnivale.  Nothing is ever retconned or contradicted later on, and watching the first episode after the last one, you can see the seeds of all the revelations being planted.  (For example, Ben's middle name, Krohn,…

Meh, I'm a big enough Les Savy Fav fan that I'd hang any one of those silly paintings up just for hipster bragging rights.

It's been a while since I've seen the Sid episode, but my takeaway was always that Hank's rampage really was the last straw that caused him to kill himself.  All the business with his ex-girlfriend and money problems definitely didn't help, and Hank's finding out about that allowed him to absolve himself — but still,…

I think it's a cool shot, but my problem is, how could the receiver possibly not be aware of the massive explosion two feet behind him?  He looks genuinely confused after completing the play for a touchdown — like, wouldn't he have heard the explosion through his helmet, or felt the ground shaking beneath his feet?…

I can't imagine the Nirvana residuals are still enough, on their own, to cover a four-story townhouse that costs $27,000 a month.  Cobain's been dead 17 years, classic rock radio is only grudgingly accepting Nirvana and other 90's acts into their 300-song-playlist canon, and "Lithium" isn't exactly a feel-good go-to…

@avclub-735143e9ff8c47def504f1ba0442df98:disqus: While that is correct under Romero rules (zombie bites are 100% fatal, but dying of a heart attack or diabetic shock will also turn you into a zombie), the reality is that most of the zombie population stumbling around must have died due to zombie bites  *Some* people…

Amy died almost instantly because she bled out through her neck wound, in almost the exact same place Sophia was bitten.  Then she turned after a few hours, long enough for a drawn out sequence where Andrea stands watch over Amy's corpse until she rises.

Every zombie movie ever made has this problem.  In order to become a zombie, you have to get bit, escape to safety, die of a fever, and rise from the dead a few hours later — all without coming into contact with any other zombies.  But most of the time, when we actually see the survivors get attacked by zombies, they…

I think if the writers were informed, they would have had a character like Andrea find out about the morning-after pill and tell Glenn (and the audience), "Doesn't she know that won't work?"  Since we didn't get that moment, I can only assume that nobody involved in the production pointed this out.

The morning after pill prevents the embryo from implanting in the uterus, so it wouldn't do anything for Lori (who's got to be at least 2 weeks along, and probably more).  She'd just get really sick from taking the morning-after pills.

Something tells me that will be the least of this show's problems by the time we get the reveal.

In general I hate this twist, but the reasoning behind it is no sillier than it was in Fight Club or The Sixth Sense [spoilers for 1999].  One cool thing they've already set up is Geller's womanizing with his TA's — while it plays on the surface as hypocrisy, that's something Travis wouldn't know about in projecting…

Yes, this is perhaps the most frustrating thing about the series as a whole.  David Chase had planted all of the seeds for the war with New York by the end of Season 4, then had to tread water for about 25 episodes before he could get to the part of the story he really wanted to tell.

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