April is not the problem with April.

TV Club didn't exist when the show aired (it started the fall after it finished), and the TV Club Classic coverage ran into two common problems: the writer left the site, and then the TV Club Classic coverage was scaled back pretty substantially.

Given Netflix made the entire revival available in advance, critics have generally written advance reviews, as they do with projects where screeners are made available. We'll have reviews of the individual installments going up throughout the day on Friday, which is where there will be more for us to discuss in…

Never mind, Never mind.

Well, yes, but we didn't have a clear sense of this being a point of concern for the school—that's the logic we're presented, but paying $27k in scholarships to let in a kid sight unseen (they didn't even try to evaluate him) seems like a pretty inefficient way to solve your diversity problem. I needed a clearer sense…

My point was not "that would have been on the test," but rather "if she was paying enough attention in class all these years to sail through the GED no problem, she should know a very basic Spanish word, especially given that Derek was her boyfriend and would have probably theoretically spoken the word at some point…

While I appreciate the compliment, it should be noted that I have the privilege of having screeners for Shameless, which is not a privilege that all writers have to work with. The battle between "speed" and "structure" can sometimes be tough, but in general I'd say the site's writers do a fine job, certainly better…

Honestly, it's because nothing's really that awful. It's not like any one storyline is dragging the whole things down—everything is on pretty solid ground, and even the stories I don't care for (Debbie's) are not being poorly executed. This episode feels deeply inessential (hence the lower grade than better episodes…

HOLD THE GODDAMN PHONE. *Googles* Oh, that sure was Chet Haze, wasn't it? What a world we live in.

I wonder if the timing of the production—they just wrapped earlier this month—explains his absence, then. He might return, depending on when next season ends up being shot/airs.

Hey—at least I found a theme. I wasn't convinced I'd even find that when I sat down to write.

That's SAG Award winner William H. Macy to you. (That will be the only award he'll win for this role.)

I think some of this is just happening offscreen, because the bank would not give her that loan if she hadn't given them some kind of business plan.

I don't vote down many comments, but I made an exception in this case.

I understand where you're coming from, but I personally think it's a bit unfair to evaluate the show with the expectation that it will ever abandon the procedural foundation it's built on. It's always going to be more talk than action, built on foundations of exposition, and Murder, She Wrote plots. It's never going…

Can we really say that Ms. Hudson is underutilized? At this point, I think it's safer to say that she is just not part of the show—why the writers went that route is something we can't say for certain, but it's not like she's a central part of the show that gets underserved. (Bell would be that, as he's sort of…

I think I'd be open to Clyde's death provided it was marked by the right amount of diegetic mourning.

I didn't mean to alarm you.

I think Joan is trying to combine the parts of her jobs that she appreciates: she likes being a detective, but she also liked the sense of fulfillment that came from helping people as a sober companion. Shinwell hits the trifecta, as he was ALSO a patient. It's an overly literal example of Joan trying to tap into what…

Genevieve is definitely more familiar with the canon than I am, but that tracks for me. Notably, though, this didn't come up in the writer's livetweet.