Reed Diamond's got to make an appearance at some point, right? Assuming this vision quest is 'Stine's murder victims (which I now somewhat assume her husband is, based on how reluctant she was to talk about whatever happened when he died). (I am 100% behind a plot of just exploring 'Stine's variously foolproof…

Yeah, I don't understand why more people aren't reporting this (though the healthcare news is definitely big — one can't help but feel this was perfectly timed). The EO is literally that every single federal agency has six months to prove to a fucking nutcase — a nutcase who wonders aloud on Facebook if there's any…

This is why I'm excited for the focus to be on women this season — women have historically done vast amounts of unrecognized work in movements like this. (The civil rights movement is another one where most of the credit now goes to the men involved, even though women were doing much of the behind-the-scenes…

See, I'd flip that around. Trump is, actually, a wannabe dictator. Getting his family or Bannon on board with something is, actually, the only way you can get him to change his mind. That doesn't mean that there aren't effective ways to mitigate his actions and beliefs outside of his family — but the fact that people…

Um…isn't your stance exactly what the clip is trying to say?

I looked a lot like Boyle on that night. :(

Yeah, this sketch actually felt a bit tone-deaf to me. People weren't just shocked because America is racist (I mean…pretty sure white liberals already knew that). They were shocked because the polls had all been strongly favoring Clinton, because we were just coming off electing a black president twice (which, to me,…

Though, his show was still better about it than many other shows that deal primarily with race. Both black-ish and Key & Peele actually make me significantly more uncomfortable in their handling of gender than Chappelle's Show does (and I've watched all three recently).

Adding my vote that I hope this means regular Superstore coverage!

I just realized that Superstore came back on the air, and the first two episodes of this season were so good that I've been frantically searching through Newswire and WOT threads to find AVClub discussion on it.

I think this is still Wagerstein looking out for herself. If things work out with the new guy and Quinn gets her own network, then great, she's off Everlasting and Wagerstein moves up in influence in the show, which translates into more exposure. If things work out badly for Quinn, then the resulting political turmoil…

They even had a designer working for them when Jack was the CEO, even before he hired other engineers or analysts or anything!

This was a pretty weak episode, but I'm a little surprised by people's reactions to some of what happened. Quinn has always been the shadow-villain of the show — has everyone forgotten how awful she was to Rachel in S1? She blackmailed her with felony charges in the first episode! This season has had relationship…

I think both of these are true, in that the show would be much better if it kept focusing on pulling back the curtain on making a reality show (whether that's continuing with Everlasting or making a new one) instead of the character drama it's turned into.

I think this was the episode where I first thought, "Grace is my spirit animal."

I was reading Todd VanDerWerff's Vox review of this ("a hangout comedy for old people") and I realized what I liked about this show: it's a hangout comedy, but with stakes. The whole dream sequence thing is hand-wringingly cliched, it's true, but it also underscores just how important it is to Grace that she have some…

I binge-watched this entire show this weekend and it's amazing. This is probably one of the worst episodes — it goes on an upswing from here, and gets really good starting with The Fall.

Yes! This! Did you see Alicia's smirk through those scenes? She was perpetually one line away from singsonging "I know something you don't know." She didn't even mind when Redmayne and Bishop got upset. And then it turns out….no, she's just an idiot? Since when is Alicia an idiot?

I kind of wish this whole show was about Blaine and his brains operation. I would love to see a show that follows him as a straight-up, unapologetic villain dispensing brains to people, and the hero would show up for a few minutes every episode, and then defeat him in the end. Liv is nice, and Ravi is very nice, but…

Yeah, in some ways it feels like a throwback to the early '00s in terms of production values and writing. Especially the writing! I hope that tightens up soon.