I guess I'm in the minority then, as I feel like the show as it currently stands is equal to the show in it's late S1/early S2 heyday. Especially the last 3 episodes.

RIPDOA

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I would be fine with this tanking so long as everyone going to the movies this weekend also avoids GROWN UPS 2, and finally gets their asses to PACIFIC RIM. 

ANECDOTE TIME: the summer between my sophomore and junior year of college, I would rent everything and anything foreign from the local Blockbuster Video. Occasionally my parents would sit down and take in one of these, typically with mixed results. At the time I wanted very much to be deep and artistic and all that.…

Naturally. Who doesn't love him or her a good Jim Rash?

You like Jeong? Well, your liking Troy now makes sense, what with them both being scene-chewing ham actors. But Brie, tho, I can only assume you like her because of… boobs?

My thoughts exactly.

right there with you, Leaf. Troy's best moments were oddly enough, tempered by Harmon's editorial eye. Glover has a tendency to WAY over-do things, and I often wondered how much of his Robin Williams-disease schtick was left on the cutting room florr until a heard Harmon say a couple of times through-out the…

don't really get the HoL comparison but yes, definitely a kinship to Ben Marcus. Read there is no year very close to the flame alphabet. toss up to which is better, but probably doesn't matter as both worth it. they both made me feel very fleshy.

Kraken was maddening to me. So many cool details, so little… something, 'build' maybe? I don't know the word for it. Kind of a slog in places. But some of the episodes, the proletarian revolution in the Kingdom of the dead, etc, were really inspired.

At the Mouth of the River of Bees, a selection of short stories by Kij Johnson.

Pretty much any episode from the first few seasons of the BBC series Ballykissangel would fit this bill.

Phillips's TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR is great, too.

WISE MAN'S FEAR is a pale shadow. There are some truly cringe-inducing sequences, that are bad enough to undermine a lot of what was so excellent about the first book. But LOTS of folks dig it, so I realize I'm in the minority here.

have a pile of NYRB reprints that I'm plugging through. Collette's PURE AND THE IMPURE right now. Renata Adler's SPEEDBOAT on deck. Good stuff, the Collette, and the NYRB series in general.

am reading every comment on this article in my head in an exaggerated falsetto.

Well they sure as shit don't get Annie, who regresses more and more with each episode. They have zero hold on her character, I found her going along with the Dean on the whalehunt to be entirely preposterous. Gone is her naive idealism, now she is just an 'enhancer' character, used to make other character's antics…

I've already forgotten all the 'good' parts and can only recall the terrible D plotline with the delta cubes and the shoehorning of Chang into the more palatable B plot. Seriously, a drinking fountain gag? All I could see was Andy wrapping his whole mouth around the fountain guard in Parks & Rec. It's not OK when your…

Winger would never, ever ever wear plaid. This is like the 8th time this season he has worn an outfit that looked like it came from an Eddie Bauer catalog. I swear to God a few episodes ago he was wearing cargo pants. Devil's in the details, and Harmon-less community is sorely lacking in Beezlebubs.