Reminds me of Yeezus.

This was legit pretty interesting. I'd like to see where it goes.

Heynongman.

More thoughts: love how the light is behind Chuck every second in this episode, while Jimmy is in the darkness until the very end; love how silver and foil's color theme is artificiality and cover-ups and lies; love Mike's eye acting and all the variations of the scope; love it all.

The genius of it is you don't really need to know about every property of the soul gems to understand Infinity Gauntlet, just like I didn't need to watch every Avengers movie to learn about Thor or the Hulk or whatever. It's standalone production with tie-ins, which, let's not forget, is Marvel's MO. What defines…

I swear I'm right about the ninjas being a soul gem tie-in for the Defenders to have a "shocking conclusion", and that makes it so much worse.

A+++. Every second was amazing. The tension building and audio design here is fucking spectacular - I love the drone of the crickets in Mike's scene as opposed to a generic score that gave the visuals a lot more room to breathe. Also love all the hints toward death and suicide as Saul enters Chuck's room - the mailbox…

Ninjas are indefensible and if you disagree, you are a ninja.

Love, love, love the parallel hero shots here - first you get one of Mike after his "surgical action", then the ridiculous setup for Saul's, and then you learn how hollow Mike's was.

"But a third musical number exists—my favorite of the evening, though all three were great—and his episode’s ill omen lives in “Angry Mad.” It’s not merely the fact that when the third point in a love triangle is unhappy. It’s that he’s that unhappy. "
Do you guys not have a copy editor? Do you need a copy editor?

Speaking of PFT, the Spontaneation "Waiting in Line for the Circular Saw at the Home Depot Lumber Department" is nothing but quality.

Jesus guys, why don't you just print a book?

I had the same reaction before I was consumed with violent emotions! Honestly, the bar could represent any number of America's toxic institutions so I think it probably just is a stand-in for America itself - the leaders following in a long line of toxicity and war crimes and abuses and so on, continuing a tradition…

Everything about that episode was fucking amazing, but the poem told by the guy with a beret whose name I forget was a standout moment of pure, strange, beautiful truth that becomes so tragic so instantly. Holy shit. I'm so glad Louis C.K. got to do this.
E: Also the parallels with Good Friday and Easter in terms of…

"I find it hard to believe that the only people in Grotto’s life were the people that recently took him on as a legal client."
Yeah, but to be fair, he was part of a pretty insular crime family of which like twenty were gunned down in the show's second scene and the rest are in hiding/at the separate funeral.

That said, I would argue that the second season - new showrunners, characters, and direction - wants to be graded more on the curve of a superhero show than a crime show, which is unfortunate, but it stands.

I thought the most interesting thing in this episode was the continual appearance of commercials, and the concept of being sold on a phony premise which culminated in that last scene. Kim's new job opportunity has all the typical undercurrents of corporate evilness but she buys into it anyway because what's not to…

"No MCU connections"
Oh, except for the "magical object" that gives The Hand the power to resurrect their own soldiers? And the fact that Hell's Kitchen happens to contain a hole roughly to the center of the earth where eldritch shit would be buried?
I have never read any Marvel comic and I'm watching along, so this…