No-one talking about the reveal that Magnitude is British?

To be fair, they'd asked her several times. They'd tried to engage her. Getting her drunk was obviously not a good idea (especially not when they drink all her beverages… how dumb are they?) but I can't say I'm on Haley's side there. If she'd told them sooner they wouldn't have been in that position at all.

It was a broad joke, but Cam and Mitchell's response was note perfect. By the end of that sequence, I was fine with it.

I felt the opposite: The Dunphys (as has been the case all season) have been played for very broad, very vague laughs, and the dramatic beats have been clumsily realised. Haley berating her parents for not knowing what she was doing… what? She was refusing to tell them, how were they supposed to know? And them getting…

@avclub-c5fe25896e49ddfe996db7508cf00534:disqus I dropped out of House halfway through the last season (although I tuned in for the finale). I dropped out of How I Met Your Mother near the start of season 8, despite thinking it would be the last season. I think part of the thing is, there's no endgame. Mediocrity in…

You know how everyone's had theories for years about how the show would end? Usually between a) he gets caught, b) he gets killed, and c) he escapes. It's looking terrifyingly like they are going to go with d) nothing fucking happens at fucking all. I'll admit, I didn't see it coming.

I'm tempted to look it up and save myself the bother. On the one hand, it's only 3 episodes, I should probably stick it out. On the other hand, it's only 3 episodes, there's no way it's going to become a decent show in that time.

You think these things only happen on Broadway. You think you're safe in your home town.

Jim Carrey! Of course!

I wonder how audience response will change when the dog returns this season…

Now You Still See Me
Now You Don't See Me
Now You See Me Again
Then You Saw Me
Now You See Us
Now You See Nothing
Now You Hear Me
Now You Feel Me
Now You Taste Me
Now You Do Me
Now You Kill Me
Now You Are Me
Now I See You

Are there people who still see him as a heroic figure? How can there be? But the Macbeth allusion is right. I've long described BB to friends as the funniest tragedy ever written (of course, it's also the starkest and most intense at times). It's a show about people doing bad things and bad things happening to them…

Man, if the next 8 episodes are disappointing The AV Club are going to look pretty silly for devoting their week to it.

MIA and Black on White on Fire. Get me every time.

Phebes as in Thebes? Or Pheebs as in dweebs? Or Phoebs as in, you know, Phoebe? Yeah, none of them work. There must a script somewhere with it in.

It has some unpleasant recurring material though, which I was not sorry to lose early in season two. For me it's still the weakest of the seasons so far, but it has some amazing stuff in. Obviously, or it wouldn't still be going.

I understand that, but it's a clunky bit of wording, and didn't make that clear. For one thing, the narrator doesn't say what he could have said, just that 'he could have told him the truth'; The truth is that he took a Forget-Me-Now, but the truth isn't that the Forget-Me-Now made him forget how he knew, so what…

@avclub-f423423863960a21f2bb75f5095dc6fb:disqus Right. They probably felt like the Narrator should say something during the awkward silence, as he had done everywhere else, but it would have made more sense without (or with a different wording).

That's what I thought, but then the narrator talking about 'he could have told the truth if…' just confused the matter. I was trying to figure out if Michael had genuinely done it knowing that GM was the other guy, or if he'd forgotten some aspects thanks to the fmn (which the narrator had said it wouldn't). Him doing…

See I thought that might be it, but the narrator just confused things. He said that he'd be able to tell the truth… if, what? What is the truth? Is it suggesting that he could have lied and said that the Forget-Me-Now had made him forget what he was talking about (and that was what he forgot)? If so… he's still not…