In Soviet Russia, all work is Charlie work.

Can you expand on this?

I could see Rafe doing something to that effect in season 1, but his acceptance of their marriage and his vastly diminished status and power make me wonder if he'd have the influence and resources to make that happen.

Oh, I wouldn't say it's all that intentional, especially in the first season. I think Berlin's pigeonholing of his persona suggests the writers might be aware of it by now, but either way it ultimately works.

I have to think there's more to come regarding the DJ/prostitute - the cut back to her was so deliberate and otherwise unnecessary. Theoretically she was putting on the song for the episode ending montage, but I doubt we'd be shown that unless something more complicated is happening (personally, I'm wondering whether…

Different hair, if memory serves.

Given Datak's violent nature, I was pretty seriously worried that he was actually going to kill her and we'd never get to see her executing revenge. Losing either character would be a shame, but two of the most interesting characters in the series going to war within their own family is something I'm very much…

I find the fact that he's pretty bad at pulling those off an endearing facet of the character. Fillion's one of the best at nailing the smarm/charm balance of that kind of thing, so it's fitting that the mediocrity playing at being a sci-fi cowboy (to paraphrase his dressing down from Berlin) is pretty mediocre at…

Shit, I would've actually liked that callback if they'd had the sense. Good call.

I'd be interested to know whether her sidelining here was more driven by her or by Kapinos. Leaving her so marginalized in the finale (compare her screen-time to the amount of time spent with a tumescent Tobolowsky) was a major misstep given the importance of her relationship with Hank throughout the series.

I thought this season was as much of a reset button as we'd seen in the past - S4 was the only one that truly tried to break out of that mold, even if they didn't know what to do with her sober in S5, while S6 was mostly a return to the types of behaviour that started to grind the show to a halt by S3. This season…

I am kind of curious about the type of person who would subject themselves to reading that.

That's the model for all late-stage Showtime shows. Each year is a block of content that could be excised from the narrative with almost no consequence, barring about ten minutes worth of developments, until they find out they're in the final year and tack on a series finale. Californication, Dexter (take the last…

The writer's room satire seems a lot worse when you consider that Kapinos wrote basically the last four seasons of the show solo. Pretty hard not to read it as a bunch of petty score-settling given that the work he produced alone without the restrictions of network television was so often so grotesque.

I'd say it's pretty great outside of just the psychological manipulation - the Metroidvania play mechanics are really solid, and there's a lot of creativity in the generational variations

The last two episodes are scheduled "Summer 2014" so it's a good idea to jump on a good deal for it if that happens.

I loved Arkham Asylum, but for some reason I just cannot stay engaged with Arkham City for more than an hour or so at a time.

I bought Rogue Legacy in the Steam sale, and have been playing it extensively. At first I thought I'd made a mistake given the punishing difficulty level, but the ability to slowly claw your way to improvements in subsequent generations has been pretty fun, even if I've only managed to knock out the first boss. I…

Maybe it was fatigue from buying them as yearly installments, but I found AC: Revelations to be a disappointment after II and Brotherhood. I hated the tower defense stuff, and the bomb making stuff, and the smoggy, crowded feel of the Istanbul setting (maybe it's better in that regard on PC?).

Needs an asterisk, everyone knows the post-mustache episodes don't count.