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This week in "Jane Krakowski Is Brilliant": The look on her face when confronted with The Shame Puppet as it made its on-camera debut.

I feel like it says a lot that I've watched the entire season about 1.5 times already, and this is JUST NOW sinking in for me. Good job, show. Thank God NBC went out to buy a pack of cigarettes and never came home, because I'm pretty sure Netflix is the only place this show could survive for the long haul.

Does "Talking to Tom Berenjar" count as a line, or do lyrics not qualify?

Holy shit, now that Fey's in with Netflix, I really hope we get to see Tina Fey Presents Gay Cheers or any other idea of hers that would get swiftly shot down by network television.

After the Office finale, I would have zero complaints if Joan Cusack became Kemper's default mother for any of her roles moving forward.

Just when I thought I was immune to giggling every time the last name Voorhees came up, they have to toss Lannister in there and start the cycle all over again.

God that was great. The last line of that episode is proof that Krakwoski and Fey can still produce moments that are stupid, funny, and heartbreaking all at once. It's the kind of stuff "the best days of my flerm" was made of.

Krakowski's still crushing it at playing a wealthy, narcissistic, materialistic lunatic, but I think she's done a really great job at slowly differentiating the two over the course of the season. I would never mistake one for the other by the time it's over, which is way more than I was expecting based on the trailer.

"He's been in Japan a lot lately. You can get mistresses in vending machines there!"

Personally, Ian McKellan was always my dream alternate-timeline casting.

For me, it's his "likability" despite what we know he does and is capable of that unnerves the absolute shit out of me.

I love when Random Roles gets ahold of people that are great at doing that, because it's never not interesting.

"DON'T PULL OFF MY WIG AND CALL ME A SAILBOAT!"

I'm genuinely concerned. "This will totally work if lightning strikes twice" is a pretty insane thing to stake a whole new direction of your series on.

The scene where Helena kills Amelia is an honest to God 3-minute horror movie. Jesus that awful (in the best possible way).

It's a triumph, but you can still feel the full weight of what a brutal decision it is and what an awful position it is to be in. It's basically a feelings clusterfuck for me.

I stand by LTP as The Sopranos most devastating episode, but I also stand by "No. (SLAM CUT TO BLACK AND CREDITS)" as the most devastating ending to a Sopranos episode.

"Too painful to watch twice"— I'm a miserable fuck that loves depressing television, and would gladly re-watch most of these episodes.

You guys, I'm really getting worried about Mallory.

I will watch on the condition that it's titled "A Cold People".