I've always found "Cards against Humanity" pretty lame, not least because it relies on the casual racism and misanthropy that Trump has made a presidential run out of. I don't mean to be the fun police, but excuse me if I find the billboards a little hypocritical and empty

Taylor shooting Wes was obviously the big crime of the episode; but did Eric kill that dude in van? The guy was holding his neck as if he'd been cut in the artery. Maybe Eric and Taylor will end up cellmates

Do you live on the west coast? I'm attracted by your comments

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By "every single social problem" I was just exaggerating; I was trying to suggest that trying to cover so much ground in one show might come at the expense of focus. I'm also greedy for resolution, so I want more from the established plots, rather than new plots. But I really just want the all the episodes.

Yeah I know you're right- it just means that they had unbelievablely finely tuned Gaydars

"American" means "the best most authentic" version of whatever follows; i.e. American cheese

I don't know "American symphony". Just in terms of TV I was also thinking "American Horror Story" and "The American's". It's really a foolproof viewing strategy

I like this show so much that I know I'm over analyzing, but a $900 bracelet sounds like hush money: for what I'm not sure

Both are pulpy melodramatic awesomeness. If it's got "American" somewhere in the title, it's probably worth watching

I'm probably misreading the relationship between Luke and Taylor, but I assumed Luke was Taylor's "best friend" from middle school that his mom was asking about when she found out Taylor had been with 2 guys. So I assumed that was why they had that moment in the bathroom: it was a reunion. I accept that I might be…

I think Kevin has become the least sympathetic character now. But so far this season, every time a character on this show appears to be completely unsympathetic, there will be a scene that forces you to see them as fully rounded, both good and bad, victim and perpetrator. My big fear is that Kevin, for all his parents…

Yeah I think the idea is that Taylor now feels he is completely alone- a man without any allies; thus the gun shown in the preview for ep. 7

Word. I think Taylor began his transformation from victim to something else this episode. I think revenge of some sort is probably the only kind of justice he's interested in now, given that the systems that should be offering him protection have completely failed

I think a major theme of the show is the unintended consequences of every parent trying to do what they think is best for their children- and the general idea that you have to send your child out into a world that ultimately you have no control over+ the dread that accompanies that

Yeah I feel like I'm fairly attentive when watching the show, but I was like, "Who is this dude? And what's his deal?". But the show is generally so well made that I don't mind the extraneous characters and the need to seemingly address every single social problem in America in one show

My take on the figure painting is its a metaphor for how the coach tries to make sense of the world by focusing on a miniature model of the world he can understand and control- he has his miniatures and his basketball team; and focusing on those to the exclusion of the larger world gives him a sense of security at…

I think you're right on- Taylor is showing him that we get most of our cultural assumptions indirectly; rarely do people spell out bigotry as clearly and hatefully as Eric's mom did, but the sentiment is pretty similar.

I think you're on to something. Kevin has become the least sympathetic character, which takes some doing on this show. His talks with Eric about keeping quiet, and his "bitch was asking for it speech" suggest he played a significant role in whatever happened at the party.