Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, with Sharon Horgan as his researcher is great, he keeps trying to hit on her in terrifyingly embarrassing ways and Horgan's utter disdain plays off him so well. Definitely worth tracking down.

That is truly the most perfect reply possible in oh so many ways. Bravo.

Perhaps it's controversial to say season 7 is the peak of The Simpsons, but for me it rings true.

An amazing club called Tropicana, I think.

Yep, great great moment. I'll not lie, I'd started to worry she was falling for it. But the twist is delightful.

I'd say it's saved by 2 things, the first is when Xander, after going on and on about how cool it will be, finally gets hit on and just blanks her with the no smoking sign. The second, of course, is Willow completely owning Parker.

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"It is harder to be in your 20's now more than ever"

I really wish Sonia hadn't just saved this for the post-review, it could be an interesting discussion but the statement just hangs their at the end of a misguided review and looks either like a blatant troll/comment bait or something astonishingly stupid in it's offensiveness.

It's like when a slightly retarded child laughs at you, you know it's cheering them up and it doesn't do any harm. I'm just impressed that level of intellect got a paid writing gig.

Of course Tenorman had done something to deserve it and Cartman's execution of his plan was flawless.

Guys it's Lindelof, he doesn't understand sci-fi and fantasy but he likes to dress up his shallow examinations of the human soul with some of the tropes to get people interested.

Yes agreed, this show is nowhere near the two I mentioned, but I also don't think that if The Wire wasn't so brilliantly written that saying you find it difficult to care about the 60% black cast because they are from a different social and ethnic group than you would be a valid criticism.

Mmm, heckuva school Brown. Weren't you at Brown, Otto?

As I thought, thanks.

Having weak reviews does more to shut down conversation than pointing out those weaknesses.

Yes exactly, diversity on TV would make a fine "FYC" article. Whacking a half assed version of that into a review of an individual episode of TV is just daft.

That's a meta criticism of most TV. It doesn't tell us anything useful about an individual show, so to make a review of one episode of one show almost entirely about that illuminates nothing but the reviewers small p politics.

No they aren't obligagted to set them in white suburbs but criticising the internal workings of the show on that basis is poor reasoning. You could have a meta-conversation about how there's too much "white, surburban" drama and comedy and that would be a worthwhile discussion.

dual heritage nowadays actually. Mixed race was out and done by the early 2000's