I think arrogant and/or good-looking contestants are usually underestimated. How they look is obviously completely irrelevant to how good of food they make, for good or bad, and arrogance probably has a slight positive correlation with actually being damn good.

This is part of what makes Ben and Kate ridiculous. It's a comedy that depends entirely on the performances at the center, and its lead has almost no acting experience and is the 23-year-old, pretty, blonde daughter of two very famous people, and she's fantastic in it.

And I'm a CPA, so it's really avatar/comment/career/everything about me synergy.

The answer to every "Why do I pay $X for Y?" is "Because that is the price point that maximizes gross margin for the seller."

Liev is fine, but Pablo was great on OITNB, and I have negative interest in ever seeing Kelsey again, and a fair bit of positive interest in seeing Spencer step into a grown up role after she was a solid center to Greek for so many years. So I'll take Pablo and Spencer over Liev and Kelsey, and it's not even close.

I get that there are differences between this and Elementary, but, yeah, I only have room for one of you, and this one has a mobbed up Casey Cartwright and I'm not 15 episodes behind on it.

BLAIR UNDERWOOD IS 49!?

The criticism in the second-to-last paragraph could be a mad lib for any hangout-sitcom pilot. There's not enough time to flesh out all the characters in one episode, so it's going to lurch through a half-dozen episodes before putting it together (or failing to). No one loves the first few episodes of a hangout comedy…

You're using selection bias: Cosby, Roseanne, and New Girl aren't good because they had more than their stars going in (well, I don't know anything about the production of the first two), they're good because they've since figured out the rest of the show. Mindy hasn't figured it out. If this show figures it out,…

The killer was revealed, but don't we not know why he did it? There's your second season, ending with him murdered in the finale, and a third season investigating that. You can just keep killing one of them off and investigating it for as long as you want, pretty much.

Deception had a charismatic actor in every role, and Lola from Gossip Girl, against all odds, absolutely crushed the "precocious teen on an adult nighttime soap" role that has approximately a -10% success rate. Tate Donovan was fantastic, whoever played the matriarch was crazy-eyed amazing, and there were no charisma…

Every law firm in the world still uses WordPerfect.

Winston is the guy who gets excited about things similar to how Jess does. He's also generally bad at stuff. That sounds like a fairly good grounding for a character on this show to me, albeit I'm not 100% sure that second part isn't racist.

The first time I put My Aim Is True on I basically just repeated "holy shit!" to myself until it was over. I don't think I've ever had a stronger positive reaction to my first listen of anything.

It doesn't look like there are many/any cameras in the prison, but it beggars belief that there wouldn't be cameras outside, where, you know, you could escape.

No one ever does something like this for revenues, and the owners laugh.

I don't see how there won't be video of the fight, since they were outside. Healy will claim he was going to get help, and the better members of the staff won't really believe him. Video would also nicely establish that Piper wasn't the aggressor, but did have a forbidden weapon (holy shit it took me six tries to…

He gets royalties from those songs, but it doesn't mean he gets all of the royalties from those songs. It also doesn't sound like he's even auctioning off "ownership" of the material, merely the rights to the royalty income derived from it. This isn't all that different from buying any other sort of cash-flow…

I have a wife who likes it slightly less than I do! Though, honestly, the end of last season was starting to drop back down from its unexpected late-life creative resurgence. We'll see if it's a blip or the beginning of another multi-season dark period.

As a super-white guy, I would guess that by "Asian American," @avclub-f41c98ac606e9b29fce2d59f71df434d:disqus means Asian-race characters with American accents.