I know I've missed most of you guys this week (too much work/school stuff), but I'll add to the chorus that this line and the 'genius' line were comedy gold.

I'm assuming folks have already tried to put the awfulness of this show behind them and thus won't see this, but this is really at the heart of my frustration with this show.

HECK YEAH FREAKING SOUTHLAND!

This is really well said, and I totally agree. I decided to wait until I can get to the entire season, thinking maybe this will be one of those 'made much more fun by binge-watching' things for me.

Being a football (actual football, not 'throwball') fan here in the US is a lonely, lonely thing. :(

Oh heavens!

Reruns of FNL pop up randomly on TV every now and then and I'm not at all embarrassed to admit that watching them is like looking at old pictures of very dear friends.

Exactly what the Col. said. First of all, the reviewer is in the US and writing for an audience that is predominantly in the US, so it's not so much an assumption about the dominance of the US box office (btw if you think it is, I have a bridge to sell you), but awareness of the intended audience for the review. In…

I missed her too, yay for us!

I wrote one small, facetious thing in response to something Proustian said once and he completely went off on me. I regretted saying anything too.

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I keep wondering if it's just that I'm used to the format and invested in the characters or if it's more that the show found its footing and rhythm somewhere along the way. Perhaps a bit of both. Justified had me from the cold open in the pilot and I've never looked back.

I liked Lucero as well. After his first exchange with Coop I was thinking 'oh no, another lame redshirt, we just got rid of one of these idiots', but by the end his terrible comedy and even-headed rapport with citizens was a welcome relief. It'll be frustrating if he disappears like one of Lydia's partners.

awww…hell…naw?

Monday night is a good video game night!

Hi. I'm a black woman, and I flag your comments, if I bother to read them at all anymore. So yeah, I guess you can't win.

Fun fact about Double Indemnity: Wilder shot an entirely different ending for the film and it got censored.

This must be an ethnic thing- it's qwa-venn-za-nay, I'm pretty sure. I went to see this with some colleagues a while back and they were so surprised at how easily I said her name as the credits were rolling. I giggled to myself. I don't know if we necessarily put ourselves 'in a hole' with names like hers, but it…

I didn't mind the Ben & Sammy 'loop', but the Coop & Steele situation did seem to be more about trying to establishing Steele's character, and since we're not as familiar that particular plot needed to do a lot more. I think because I have a good sense of Ben and Sammy I understood how they might continue to be…

Yeah, I was really enjoying the portrayal of motherhood too, for exactly the reasons you've stated. I definitely have a personal stake in this, as a grad student parent who started teaching a new course two months after giving birth (and 5 weeks after my dissertation director lost her battle to cancer). Being a…