Yeah, I can agree that this second season was really in need of more polish and thought. I'm not entirely sure why some choices were made. Honestly, reading this review though, I didn't even collect with the dancing of all the clones and Kira and stuff… I generally like these characters and the character development,…

This show is incredible, and one of the most emotional and starkly beautiful. Not necessarily a "thrill ride", but the beauty of its visuals, and the intellect and thoughtfulness in its writing and acting makes it touching in ways other shows only grasp at through deaths of characters and breakups, etc. - whereas…

Agreed - the writeup was worth it. I think Erik's write-up here is the "best" compared to all of the previous brackets. I have mixed feelings about the ultimate choice - considering, say, the writeup indicates it's in the top "10" episodes of Community, yet Ozymandias is considered to be perhaps the best episode of…

Oh, I totally forgot about that… but though, I guess I thought there was some controversy around if he actually did hit his mom and sister?

Wait - what else did Christian Bale do besides yell at that guy who walked in front of the camera a few years ago?

Of course, the fact certain people gravitate towards certain types of art has nothing at all to do with anything… where the type of person who might watch the Bachelorette might be a different type of person than who might watch the Before Sunrise series…

Can I ask - I'm very familiar with Neutral Milk Hotel but not seeing a
line from In the Aeroplane in the review. The sentiment this episode
raised, and Erik Adam's review, seems to suggest something to do with
the "how strange it is to be anything at all" line, but I don't see it
explicitly written here, either.

That's… funny?

I am… mesmerized… must watch Little Nicky… wait, no, the trance is over now.

Oh I doubt it. He made a pretty grand exit with a lot of menace and threat - I imagine he'll be back.

I get what you're saying, but are you sure that we are ready for a TV series that dramatically re-enacts the atrocities that occurred as a result of the War on Christmas?

I'm happy about this, I'll admit - the first season was competent enough. Flawed certainly, but it found its footing - particularly with a strong finale. For a few episodes, the main character's noncommittal actions were pretty tiresome, but it had enough going for it that I stayed engaged, even as some disparate plot…

Not great, Bob!

And I agree, and did get your intent from what you said - but the reductive argument was going to be made at some point, and I think that it's important to keep that in mind if you truthfully write yourself, etc. - chalking a misreading of a scene to the fault of a creator isn't always a fault of anyone - at times, as…

I would disagree as well, in the sense that Marge is somewhat reluctant when she even answers the phone when Mike calls. Then, when they meet, she consistently enforces the boundaries she has set that Mike wants to break down - for example, he tries to sit next to her and she tells him to go back to his seat where she…

That'll do, bear. That'll do.

I don't know how much I agree that every time the message isn't entirely clear to everyone, it's an immediate failure on the creator's part. There are issues, themes, motives, etc., that are often "muddy" - things often don't happen in black and white, or for clear cut reasons, in real life, and in complicated drama.

Not a spoiler for me as I've seen it, but you may want to indicate you're about to provide a spoiler for the show.

I agree with you. One in particular involving Gus and the, um, red car… I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen Fargo. But coincidences and chance meetings were part of what pulled the strings of the tightly knit story, and made me feel a little pang of desire for some tighter writing.

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