Hey baby I hear Culloden calling

4) Was hoping the horseman in the distance was Bonnet. Another twist of Frasierian proportions for sure.

Worse:

1) This is the worst! Jungian going “ayii ayii” is everything wrong with this. I hope the Mohawk are happy with this rough fuckin’ trade.

Natiy-Nevetsky-Damus, why do A.V. Club people like The Good Place so much?

Isn’t the disguised alien spy on that other show also named Tyler?

We’re always sanctimoniously surprised at how often the girls don’t know the words to songs that have been on the show a number of times. Also annoying is how selectively the judges mention when the girls don’t know the words (Jasmine and Gia both I believe).

We’re always sanctimoniously surprised at how often the girls don’t know the words to songs that have been on the show a number of times. Also annoying is how selectively the judges mention when the girls don’t know the words (Jasmine and Gia both I believe).

Suite No.3 ughhhh—I’ve seen it used more convincingly on American Dad.

I’d have given it more awards love. It seems to me a lot of people missed the obsession/sacrifice/artiste framework of it, which was the most moving to me.

Dang, I thought this was going to be about True Detective Season 3...

Just leaving this here:

Also Ziggy looks like Abed. #fourseasonsandashittyepisode

Well, sure, but you can easily have an episode that offers internal meaningfulness as well as meta-meaningfulness, but apparently they weren’t concerned with quality in the former sense.

Agreed, I was underwhelmed. I can’t help but compare it to the other “oh who are these people, oh there’s Gretchen and Jimmy” episode that starred Justin Kirk. Unfortunately, whereas the Kirk episode had a strong purpose in bolstering Gretchen’s depression theme, this episode seemed to serve no purpose other than to…

My theory is that the HFPA isn’t a good arbiter of comedic taste—see the former domination of Big Bang Theory and Modern Family. Veep I would call a fluke based on idolization of JLD. Of course that would mean I wouldn’t be surprised if The Good Place won at some point--zing!

I always mistake him for Ryan Murphy.

My two favorite scenes were:

My points are independent of whether or not one has seen the film.

This is what happens when you’ve spent considerable time studying a concept, particularly in the arts, and then try employing it with people who think they can use a dictionary, some internet reading (aka “internet smart” aka the death of scholarship), and a crash course in self-taught logic to refute you. But props,…