Hum, for some reason, I had Three Rivers as a Friday show. Thanks. And I believe (though I may be wrong) that Joan of Arcadia also aired there and it ran for two seasons. So it can happen eeeeevery so often, otherwise they wouldn't even try.

Sure, not to mention Ghost Whisperer and obviously Blue Bloods. But still…

CBS usually tried a lot of stuff on Fridays, but they never lasted long enough. There was A Gifted Man, Made in Jersey, Chaos, Three Rivers,… It was usually the place where they would experiment with something unusual or just dump whatever midseason show they extra ordered and didn't need it anymore. That hasn't…

Actually, the last one was Made in Jersey, a legal drama CBS aired on fall 2012 for just two weeks before cancelling it. That's okay, though, nobody remembers that either.

Not to mention LeBlanc as a family man…

I might be wrong on this one, but before last week's episode, we'd have to go all the way back to Year of the Rat to see a plot that deals with Chinese culture.

I kinda have to agree with whoever said that the show doesn't deal with their Chinese heritage as often as they did in season 1. The writers have severely watered down that side of the show, so much so that Eddie Huang's bitching in season 1 makes sense in retrospect. The jokes and plots come almost entirely from the…

I think at most they might have taken one ride and the parts where it's just them screaming are real while the dialogues were done on green screen. Even from a technical standpoint would be hard to pull off, the sound would be nearly impossible to capture properly.

With all the Frasier references this season, it has to be Kelsey Grammer.

At the same time, I remember reading somewhere that Kemper opened up about her pregnancy to Tina Fey because she couldn't do this scene. Hmmm, not sure what to think anymore. If she and Kudrow shot on an actual roller coaster, then I guess I just love them even more.

It was very interesting how they did that scene. The scenes where Titus and Kimmy are calling each other from Orlando and Titusville are obviously green screen for both of them and it's so lousy you can tell right away. The roller coaster sequence, though, was so well shot and edited that I only knew for sure it was…

That review makes no sense to me even before episode 7 because they were dealing SO much with all of the characters' emotional growth right from the start, which makes the "less grounded" complaint weird.

Nice. Will look it up! Merci.

Hmmm, damn. I was kinda hoping to get a good french-speaking show now that The Returned is over.

Is that any good? I mean, have you heard any good things about it?

I think if Iannucci wanted to air a 40-minute episode, HBO would let him. There are multiple episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm that have 40 minutes. In Iannucci's case, I think it's much more of a self-imposed limitation than anything else.

Fair enough. For what it's worth, I do love me some Slings & Arrows.

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I would easily put Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Comeback in the same level as those three. As for the British, I'd also put The Thick of It and Fawlty Towers there and I love the first two seasons of Coupling as much as I love any season of those shows (I never watched The Kids in the Hall or Monty Python's Flying…

I absolutely agree that those episodes felt really stretched out. Anyway, I think Love, the Apatow-Netflix show, is the real proof of a bloated show, with those improv bits that almost never landed.