Yeah, Annie never really seems like Jeff's equal in the way Britta does. She's like Lisa Simpson to his Bart more than a love interest. Even as the show has pushed Jeff a ways down the spectrum toward altruism over it's run, she's still way too Type A for me to believe that they'd ever really get along as a couple.

I thought that was a bit odd as well, since apparently a year or two supposedly passed between Jeff's graduation and the first episode of this season.

Yeah, didn't she just mention in the season premiere that her husband left with her kids and her shop failed? I was surprised to see her here, with her kids and happily raking it in through her business. Not that continuity is really all that important on a show like this, but I wonder if they aired this one out of…

You realize that this show is a comedy and those are all dramas, right?

Those "trauma blankets" aren't specific to rape, though. They're given to victims of basically any kind of trauma in tv and movies all the time, like if a character's house burns down or whatever. I don't think the show intended the ass-crack-bandit to be a rape metaphor or played it that way (though I guess I can see…

Yeah, the letters, phone calls, music montages and the ending were all pretty obviously Zodiac references. The super overly contrasty colors and some of the other touches (like Troy's trauma victim blanket) were I think more an amalgam of other related shows/films.

I also thought it was odd when Andy had "only" $1800 in his bank account in the episode where he and April try to tick off all his bucket list items, despite being a part-time shoe-shinist who constantly spends money on frivolous crap.

I think you're trying to make this a much more politicized issue than it is. It doesn't have anything to do with affirmative action. Nobody is forcing SNL's hand, the problem is that there are lots of black women in popular culture and the show, which thrives on satirizing popular culture and politics, has no way of…

They were not hired on the basis of those two videos. The second one is from a performance from five years ago. I have some faith that Lorne Michaels knows what he's doing.

I wouldn't particularly attribute it to terrorism, but perhaps more to do with the gridlock we've been living with for the last six years.

You'd think they'd just wear it as a badge of honor and brag about their status on the FBI watchlist in a song, though they seem to be attempting to soften their image considerably in their middle-age.

It's silly to call it a "gang," as it's obviously not anywhere near that organized, but they pretty clearly foster a fanbase primarily consisting of violent idiots so whatever.

Apple's really good at yapping about features when they have an advantage (or inventing marketing-speak like "retina display" when they don't really have one to create the perception that they do), but then shifting their message to be about functionality once they no longer have an advantage in a particular area.

To be fair, with megapixels in cameras, there's at least some benefit, since most consumer cameras have very limited (or nonexistent) optical zoom — the high megapixel count gives you headroom to zoom digitally without incurring a perceptible hit to the image quality.

In what world would adding a second subwoofer possibly have any noticeable benefit? I guess I could see 22.2 as a standard for cinemas (though I'd still be skeptical of the average person's ability to differentiate between that many different directional speakers), but for home that is absolutely absurd.

At some point we can probably all just agree that the resolution has passed the point of human perception, so there's no need to continue in that dimension, right? I think 4k is probably it, since they use it now for theater projections and your home screen is probably not seventy feet wide.

Yeah, I mean, Picasso's great and all, but cubism is an objectively less representational portrayal of what human vision looks like than two or three point perspective. In fact, you could argue that is the whole point. To argue otherwise is simply being obtuse.

I'm guessing that TNT probably just let the showrunners do their own thing, whereas NBC seems stuck in a loop of executives tinkering with every show to death because they want everything to be a huge, crossover success, because the last show they wanted to become a big tentpole got tinkered to death by executives,…

Have you seen season 4 of The Wire?

Zach & Miri is pretty good too, but as Smith himself said in the quote cited above, it feels like a generic Seth Rogen/Apatowniverse joint more than a Kevin Smith movie.