Nick: This is President Miller of Earth. I'd like to speak to the Galactic Emperor, please…Yeah, it's about money.

Not sure if he beats Nadia, but I'd put the landlord over Starr for the Rusted Root playalong alone.

Yeah, this show hit its stride amazingly. Anyone know if it's still a hit now that it's good?

I'm really happy this show exists. And that dace scene just covered me with smiles, worked a lot better than together dancing.

Hey, so where'd Newswire go today?

GODDAMMIT

No, I mean, I got that, but it still felt very weird that this was something that was perfectly accepted by the other women. If they'd seemed in any way bothered by it, it would have made more sense, but the fact they they tossed it off as just a thing that happened and got them stuff felt very strange. I dunno, just…

You know what? You're probably right. I got caught up in the unexpectedness of the accents and was already paying disproportionate attention to the nonwhite characters because of all the discussion around the show, so I saw offense where there probably wasn't any. I still do think the office lady was a bit weird, but…

What about the characters from "A Good Man Goes To War"?

Alright, so four episodes in, I suppose there had to be a bad one eventually. It was nice to pull back from Hannah a little and play with the rest of the ensemble, but there were so many weird, weird choices in this episode that I couldn't quite get on board.

That Jessa bit went a long way towards telling us that Dunham's aware of the problems the show has with race, but I'm still bothered by just how these women are talking. I don't know if they're going for "versimilitude," but it's completely failing and coming off patronizing.

Is that a phrase? I'd never heard that before, that was wonderful.

Man, I was really scared for a minute that they were trying to take Jessa's "let me fix everything!"  speech seriously. Undercutting that by having her fail at her actual job worked really well.

@avclub-02810ee8240709d91af1cf16144f0e52:disqus Man, I'm not gonna argue that it was a great depiction or anything, but there were plenty of nonwhite people in this episode.

Yeah, but they were black people who kinda talked like ridiculous stereotypes. Look at the office bit; the two women talked radically differently despite being basically the same character. That's normally a good thing, but all I could see was the director telling the black woman to "sass it up some more" like Shirley…

MACHETE: KILLING JOHN MALKOVICH
MACHETE KILLS THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
MACHETE KILLS AMILE
MACHETE KILLS BILL
MACHETE KILLS CHICAGO
MACHETE KILLS ZODIAC

@avclub-eede55069a8d3430b54730901f49c230:disqus I saw this as much more of an Occupy riff, with all the pepper spray.

Like Kirk Cameron's?

Man, the delivery on "…I'll go to a very dark place" was fantastically creepy.

Did y'all read the Jerry interview today? He auditioned for Ron, too.