I really appreciated the big Christy-Bonnie confrontation at the end, which was well done from both a writing and performance perspective…but I'm inching closer to bailing on the show. As much as I like Faris, Janney and Jones, this show is just too damn depressing. Everything before Christy started crying at the…

Viewing the homepage on my cellphone, I initially thought the picture above was of Jane Krakowski and thought someone had cast her in a werewolf show (hopefully a comedy/parody one) based on the episode of 30 Rock where Jenna was shooting a werewolf movie in Iceland. Reading that that's not what this is was deeply…

You know, on "Friends" Rachel quit her job as a waitress with no backup plan to make herself focus on what she really wanted to do. Just saying. The big difference is, that episode made a lot more sense. Rachel gave two weeks notice (why didn't Penny?), at the end of the two weeks Rachel was freaking out about not…

(Heh—after I posted I wondered if I remembered that Fresh Prince article correctly and went looking for it. Sure enough, it was real. The show they were looking at for plotlines was The Donna Reed Show: http://www.laweekly.com/200… )

Years ago I read an article by someone who served as a staff writer or writers assistant on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” (RIP, Uncle Phil) who said one of the worst things they were forced to do by the producers was watch episodes of old sitcoms to see if they could find plots they could take and use on “Fresh…

So this is where Andre went after leaving Shirley? Sad. Go back, dude.

Eh, to me she's just playing (and has been) to the level of the material she's been given. All she's had to do this season is cry about daddy, cry about mommy, cry about her married boyfriend, wah wah wah, angst angst angst. Which, yeah, has led to a lot of trembly-lipped performances, and I'm not sure how else she's…

You know what I miss? When Olivia Pope was the main character on this show. In this episode in particular it hit me just how much she's been sidelined, while all the main action seems to revolve around all the other characters. (Which is why I can't disagree more with the reviewer's proposal that Olivia is one of the…

**raising hand** I wasn't sad at all. At the moment, I find Quinn one of the more interesting, and certainly most sympathetic, characters on the show, definitely more so than Abby or Harrison, who are tedious. I'm far more interested to see where her story goes than either of theirs.

Laura Benanti was everything in this. The singing, the effortless charm, the subtle acting even when she wasn't the focus of what was happening, perfectly covering the moment when Michael Park stepped on her dress, with the adorable, somehow perfectly-in-character (for this Elsa anyway) "Oopsie!" Damn, I wish I could…

I was afraid that maybe I'm just getting old and overly sensitive, but the review seems to affirm I'm not alone. I just can't with the show's newfound violence and gore. Between the wrist chewing in the last episode and everything with Quinn in this one… Just…no. Previously they just alluded to the torture executed by…

I'm usually a firm defender of the "it's filmed in front of a studio audience" rationale, but in this instance, it didn't sound like an audience reaction—it sounded like a canned response that was added in post. Plus, it wasn't necessary since there were still two lines after that, so the scene wouldn't have lost…

Danny's dance is now one of my favorite things ever. Damn, Chris Messina has moves.

Personally, I would check out The Crazy Ones over The Millers. The Crazy Ones is kind of weird in that I watch it, generally find it amusing (though seldom laugh out loud) and then completely forget about it as soon as its over. It just has no staying power with me. The characters are decent, generally likable, but…

This show has far more heart and humanity than 2 and a Half Men, IMO, and is trying to do far more interesting things than that show ever tried.

Yeah, I really liked the son's reaction. I'm glad they used Marjorie to explore that kind of hurt and lingering anger, since the requirements of the show's premise and keeping Anna Faris and Allison Janney together meant forcing a quick reconciliation between them instead of digging into Christy's (justifiable, IMO)…

Wow—you thought he looked well under 50? I must be even more judgmental than I thought, because I thought he looked like he was late fifties easily, which surprised me until I remembered how that would totally work with the timeline (meaning she definitely didn't sober up until after he grew up). But it might just be…

Just curious what you meant about it airing too late. Do you mean it was a subject they should have covered before the event happened so maybe changes would have been made beforehand and it never would have taken place? Because it happened December 3, 1979 and the episode aired February 11, 1980, which doesn't seem…

Exactly. I'm always up for character-driven stories, but that interminable rehearsal dinner scene where the audience was forced to listen to one uninteresting toast after another from characters we knew nothing about talking about people we knew next to nothing about and certainly had no reason to care about was…

Jamie Weinman, a critic and expert on the show who was referenced in the "Very Special Episode" article on WKRP, actually uploaded all the episodes on his blog. They still seem to be available.