It's actually very useful because addressing the videogame narrative does well to address the awful double standard fans use to legitimise and then inoculate videogames.

That's a ridiculous relativism designed to innoculate videgames from legitimate criticism.

So, for example, which videogames are ok to critique for sexism/racism e.t.c. and which can't because they're harmless fun? Are the ones that are harmless fun excluded from being taken seriously enough to be put in a hall of fame?

Books that make you laugh aren't a medium. They're a genre. Books that show you how to repair things aren't a medium. They're a genre. The fact that books have genres doesn't mean they're confused about the medium.

Agreed. Which is why I made my comment.

You're confusing genre with medium.

Videogames need to figure out what they want to be. They want to be considered Art, sport and just some harmless fun that shouldn't be critiqued by women, all at the same time.

"The entire piece is more than worth a read, especially if you’re still hanging on as a fan of either Kozelek or his music."

I really dug Tom James in this episode. He was like a foul mouthed Leo McGarry.

Dick Diver is awesome. Waste The Alphabet is probably my favourite song of the year so far.

I must say, I prefer Phil's jealousy of Todd in the second episode where it takes on a Homer Simpson/Ned Flanders kind of thing, to Phil's jealousy of Todd because he wants to bone Melissa.

Ok, it probably needs to be pointed out (or repointed out if it already has been) but Jane Krakowski wasn't taking a Native American role. Jacqueline's backstory as a Native American was developed after they'd hired the writing staff, two who happened to be Native American. Giving her a Native American background,…

Please, explain it to me more.

It's the worst album in their discography (it's not bad, but every other album is just better), though Fade Into You did deserve its ubiquity.

The approach isn't risky, and by the same token you could find a number of comedians who wouldn't take the situation into bitterness. But it's not like Kyle Kinane is a risk taking comedian. He's a meat and potatoes comedian who gets the basics right as much if not better than anyone else. That's why he's so good.

"In the hands of a lesser comedian, this story would have opened a window into bitterness,"

That may be true, but The One with The Embryos is almost universally considered to be the *best* Friends episode. That would be my bet.

That article is all kinds of gross. It posts anonymous internet comments as sources with no attempt to verify the claims and then implies that they're likely to be true because Elizabeth Moss also criticised her ex-husband, even though her criticisms were of a completely different nature.

Indeed. I can't remember a comedy season in recent memory with as much great new comedy as this one.