Margaret actually gets a lovely, if slightly sanitized and repetitive, sendoff that didn’t make it into this review. But the show certainly did not forget her importance to Elizabeth in the final episodes.

I’m sure it had nothing to do with politics. /s

Admittedly knowing very little about him, he strikes me as the kind of person who would prefer to do work that interests him over money he doesn’t need. Given that he was making about $1M per episode, I’m gonna guess he doesn’t need anymore money.

His turn as the elderly oil baron (or whatever) visiting his son (Pete Davidson’s) class for Career Day is legitimately among my all-time favorites for the show.

I loved how Strike Force Five did a whole episode ragging on Fallon’s alcohol-induced dyslexia and everyone loved it so they said, “Okay let’s just do that again,” and it worked! Jimmy Fallon being unable to communicate in a coherent manner is the gift that keeps on giving. 

Letterman even said, at the end of the episode, how much he had surprised himself by enjoying it. I suspect that experience is why he decided to go on Colbert.

For people who are interested in late night talk shows, Strike Force Five is a really good listen.

I’m willing to bet that Hughes hasn’t seen Letterman’s new show, but would have used the exact same wording if he had. The requirements for writing an AV Club article seem to include, “Be snarky; the less sense it makes the better.”

That comment deserves to be made fun of.  Got my star. 

Well, I won’t tell anyone if you won’t.

I was joking, and making fun of The Pete Murray Darling Basin Authority’s comment.

I agree. It’s outrageous that this television miniseries does not show every single event and participant in World War II.

Exactly, her behavior is not presented as a good thing or something to emulate, it’s over the top awfulness.

I don’t understand that either. For the most part, the Bluth’s are reprehensible people. We are laughing at them. Lucille’s outrageous behavior, in an expert deadpan by Jessica Walter, is to be mocked by the audience. These characters are funny and a lot of the humor comes from their general unlikability.

Did we miss that Lucille is not meant to be a sympathetic character, and that calling them dramatic and flamboyant (while being dramatic and flamboyant) is not meant to be an endorsement of being horrible?

Could well be possible - my thinking was similar, in more that even if Bibi didn’t see this coming he had deliberately worked to worsen conditions to the point where an attempt like October 7 could well be made. I don’t know if he also anticipated how severe the casualties would work out but given what I have read…

I guess I’m not as chronically online as I thought, because I didn’t clock that hashtag as even remotely familiar.

Bibi’s “help Hamas to help Israel” strategy is well known. There’s no conspiracy or leaps in logic here. It’s been openly discussed in Israeli and Arab circles for years.

When +8,300 people have been bombed to shit, most of them were civilians, half of them were children, and you’re rooting against a cease-fire, you’re the problem.

Best episode of the season so far. Strong B+. Nothing hit a home run, but to keep up the baseball metaphor, everything made contact and they drove in runs. Lake Beach would be my pick for best of the night, but Washington and Soul Food are good contenders as well (Nate Bargatze in a chef’s coat looks like he could be…

they make a cute couple, sorry not sorry