Leslie dismissing the MRAs was so right. The internet is going to feed off that for years.

What about "Need You Now" and "Eye In The Sky"?

In my job I work with used books and I've come across history books as late as the 1950s which subscribe to Birth's idea that chaotic "black rule" prevailed in the South due to the tyranny of Northern carpetbaggers, etc. When I was in school we didn't get the racial side of it but it was common in history texts to…

Allergic, but she loves it.

Haven't seen anyone mention that one of Alcazar's brides-to-be is a member of Lovecraft's Great Race of Yith.

Yeah, and I feel the episode's one failing is that, though Leela shows up her mentor, Bender still "loses" and the heteronormative dynamic is still preserved.

Hell, in 1993 the WWF had Ludvig Borgia, who hailed from FINLAND. Anywhere that wasn't America was good enough at some point.

What makes it unique (or at least novel) is having him literally race the spectral image of his brother's car, and decide not to overtake it. That's the illustration of the idea and I'm not sure I've seen that elsewhere- it's certainly possible that it's been done but it's not exactly common visual shorthand, is it?

All plots are tired. There are like seven of them. The point is how it's executed, and that first race with Speed literally racing the memory of his brother and deciding not to overtake him is a masterful illustration of the idea.

Ilana going crazy over the possibility of Abbi pegging someone was just… wow.

Speed Racer has a fine story. What's wrong with it?

A lack of action is okay (sort of), but I do think the structure of this episode felt a little off- not quite as cohesive as it could have been.

The boys in the office are all pretty macho, sure, except Gokaj's character. But there's some good shading even among them- Jarvis and Howard know well enough not to underestimate Peggy, but they insist on freezing her out of certain things regardless. That's the thing about sexism, it's pervasive even if you aren't a…

I feel like it dipped just enough that it's best for them to wrap things up now, but I don't think last season was actually bad. Saw some of the recent episodes in repeats over the weekend and most of it holds up.

What I've read and heard is that it wasn't just standing out in the rain that did him in- the man effectively worked himself to death before the inauguration, putting so much effort into setting up the transition (and presumably not delegating enough of that to assistants) that it's no wonder he caught something.…

This is literally the first episode to split the two up, but whatever.

Because a show that never changes its dynamic becomes stagnant, and working on these new characters and situations is preferable to sticking rigidly to a formula.

I think it's just now that for some people, Ichabod/Abbie is the entire show and anything deviating from that is bad, even as we also expect dramatic TV to be dynamic and unpredictable and non-formulaic.

I think once enough episodes have passed the fans' opinion on certain characters just solidifies and they can never, ever be redeemed, so it's go back to the S1 status quo or nothing.

It is a horror show. These sorts of things happen in horror shows.