Erik Adams: bring me a petition to get Paul F. Tompkins to host The Late Show, and I'll sign it in blood.

They should have hired a new writer for Chronicle 1. That movie was little more than a watered down Akira.

Her comment in the monologue about "tomorrow night's episode": I'm wondering if we're in for and especially risque Girls this week…

Ugh, the word "pandering" has been bandied about so much in the past few years, I think it's lost it's edge. The characters on Girls are hardly a positive spin on millennials, and they're written as intensely flawed for a reason. I don't see how the humor on that show is "sophomoric." Most of it is extremely subdued…

I can't help but feel like *somebody* felt that it would be critically unfair to let the season go by without a low point, so they dropped a C on a C+/B- episode while they still had a chance. That said… this was the low point. Just not *that* low.