Huh.  It’s still a weird decision to go so meta, and the script is credited to both Ephron sisters so it’s not like they didn’t have the ability to do otherwise/better.

If you haven’t seen 22 Jump Street: the meta is turned WAY up (“Yes, we’re just going to do the same shit again!”) and don’t miss the fake trailers for the next 10 movies in the series at the very end.

“oh, people think dwarves are all short, but actually only some of us are”

I like conceptually that the B plot of this episode is about terrible customer service.

I’m going to agree with a lot of this — I mean, look it’s Carol Kane....for like 3 scenes in the first ep and then a bigger role in #3 but in the past, and we’re halfway through the season already. Also, this whole thing isn’t as good as last year’s Vulcan Hijinx, although it’s hard to top the comedy of doing a body…

I really loved the moment, late in the episode, when Mount is bring a tray of something or other over the others, and something else happens that clearly raises the tension in the room, and he silently adjusts his course and ends up just looping back to his kitchen.

It means you can sing karaoke to it.

SLJ sitting at a table and talking with someone is generally good. See also both his big Cheadle scenes, the firing one and the one in this ep.  “Acting!” [makes Jon Lovitz arm-sweep but is also serious]

I do notice her end credit in each episode so maybe not far off.

Yes: the thing to learn is that, with the bosses in particular, when they turn red for an unblockable attack, your dodge isn’t going to do it (unless you’re far enough away to not get hit anyway).  You must, must, learn to “perfect parry” as I think it’s called.

Too much corn hubris, for sure.

Also, rewatchability: there just so much going on in ATSV that I’m sure if I saw it again without having to pay attention for plot I’d find a lot of things I didn’t notice before.

Like when Brooke literally is invisible when she’s briefly “not in the industry”.

I also feel like I’m learning a lot of inside-gay stuff that I wouldn’t normally.

It would be nice if this article knew what The Game actually is: it’s a revival of the CW football-adjacent comedy(/drama?), not a game show.

In fact, the right to not distribute something is a part of copyright. If I’m an artist ashamed of my barely-released early work, I’m not obliged to re-release it to keep copyright if I’d rather bury it.

To my mind, Anson Mount is playing Kirk and calling himself Christopher Pike.  Hair aside, if they told you that was JTK you’d 100% buy it.

Well, yes.

That mean NOT-cis.  Geez.

The lesbian contingent of TERFS would disagree.