Yeah, I think it helps that the whole thing feels very “theatrical” and heightened in a way that Logan Lucky didn’t. Plus he’s not surrounded by other actors doing more realistic southern accents.

Yeah, it was nice that the plot just revealed new information that fit with all previously known information, no secret double crosses or convoluted conspiracy that relied on a crapload of unpredictable happenstance required, like in so many of these sorts of things..

It sort of reminded me of Super Troopers, with the running gag of everyone assuming Thorny is Mexican (but similarly, they never actually specify that he is in fact Indian, or at least Jay Chandrasekhar is).

I assumed he was just referencing Prince Albert tobacco because... the old prank phone call thing? It doesn’t really work as a joke beyond surface level recognition though.

Yeah, David Cross put it well when he said that there’s such a torrent of horrible shit that it’s impossible because by the time you write a joke, eleven new scandals have happened. “It’s like making fun of the way a kaleidoscope looks right...*now*.”

Anybody who thinks Seth Meyers cares one whit about turning off Trump supporters has obviously never seen a single episode of his Late Night, I think he’s earned the benefit of the doubt that it’s part of a bit and he doesn’t actually expect anybody to use it (since, as I’m sure he’s fully aware, anybody who actually…

Back in my middle-school, Smash Mouth liking days, my older brother told me he hated Walkin’ On the Sun because he thought the line “you need to be there when your baby’s old enough to be laid” was super gross.

It seems like retconning on the part of that BBC reviewer to call Walt a “white male anti-hero.” The show, and Vince Gilligan, are explicit about making him a *villain* by the end of it. It’s not a show about an anti-hero, it’s a show about a regular guy who becomes a villain.

He also kicked a dog into the sun in the original neighborhood. I think he’s supposed to have supernatural strength, even if Janet was the one doing the conjuring of everything.

Couldn’t agree more on your last point - we were yelling at the TV when Piper’s brother and sister-in-law followed up their condemnation of her masturbating as “merely masking the problem” with a suggestion of... anonymous causal sex? Isn’t that, like, almost exactly the same thing?

Season 3 of Community was pretty great too - it’s a shame we’ll never actually get the full “six seasons” that they tease in the final scene.

It’s more notable for pulling out of the nosedive the show was on and getting itself within shouting distance of the quality the show once had than actually a great final season IMHO. It’s still pretty impressive that they were able to make it pretty good given the 2-3 seasons that immediately preceded it.

Yeah, Breaking Bad basically told you from day 1 how it was going to end, and that’s exactly how it ended, but they certainly did a damn good job. Ozymandias is like the result of the full five seasons of the pressure cooker building up and finally exploding.

Only problem is it would’ve had to have been Norm circa 1996.

This reminds me of Conan vamping during the 2007 writer’s strike, when he would, like, see how long he could spin his wedding ring on his desk and stuff (I actually really loved those episodes).

Well, as I said, I think it’s implied that it’s actually the *men* who are infertile (i.e. the Commanders), but they won’t admit it, and thus instituted the whole Handmaid system. Although this is actually counterproductive if their goal is to address the declining birth rate issue because they’re not having sex with…

It’ll be later this season when June’s hand-picked Marthas are assembled into her own Ocean’s 11 resistance team (which will then be immediately disposed of in the following episode and June will wind up back at the Waterford’s instead of being hanged with no explanation).

Yeah, we were just noticing during these past few that there seem to be children around in the Canada scenes, which kind of begs the question of why Gilead came into be.

It seemed they were pretty heavily hinting at Chris Meloni’s character being gay/making a pass at Fred, so I assume we’ll get some more of that before Meloni’s arc is done.

Extremely “out here,” as the kids say, for the Mr. Rodgers esque “and I will, too” in the stray observations.