I like the Green Album, but how did nobody put their foot down on the idea of EVERY song having a guitar solo that was just the song’s melody??

Its sadsack anthems now sound suspiciously like white guy entitlement at best, proto-MRA incel nonsense at worst.

There was only a two year gap between the the first two albums but a five gap between Pinkerton and the Green Album.  

“Green” was okay, felt a little overproduced. I liked the messier Maladroit that followed. But you’re not wrong that some of the songs on Pinkerton haven’t aged well. Still my favorite. 

“Smash cut to:”
“It’s 20 years later. The SkyNet Corporation has taken over all of Judea!”

Except that, at the time, the only person who had even the first clue about how big the Matrix was going to be was Joel Silver.

Greetings, Gumshoes! This week we find ourselves on the beautiful isle of the A.V. Club!

I remember when it aired here in California, someone decided it was a good idea to put a still shot of a crashed airplane on the beach after the credits rolled. So of course the dumbfucks come rolling along with ‘See it was purgatory the whole time!’ or some such drivel to explain that still shot. I will never forgive…

I know, like 90% of the “mysteries” were explained at some point during the course of the show, but people need things to be explicitly detailed, because people are morons.

Oh, for fuck’s sake, with the goddamn polar bear already. Why is that always the default question when someone brings up all the things they missed on the show and/or didn’t bother looking up? I know this stuff isn’t obvious, but come on. It’s all been readily available online for nearly a decade.

The characters on Lost were more often than not puppets in service to the plot, so retroactively claiming it was all about the characters has never been credible.

Absolutely not. It’s one thing if someone asks the host what to bring and he/she responds “a bottle of white” or similar. But many people (myself included) don’t want to show up emptyhanded and if the host says “I don’t need a thing!” might bring a bottle of wine anyway. Under those circumstances, which I personally…

If he did those things in real life he would be a terrible therapist, yes, but he’s also the best on-screen example of how therapy actually works (at least from a certain, somewhat old-school,  model). Episodes of In Treatment get shown in clinical psych schools pretty regularly

Doesn’t Paul Weston engage in a relationship with one of his patients in the first season? I think that’s a pretty big violation of doctor ethics.

I have no doubt they’ll do a black and white episode at some point (assuming it gets renewed). 

Maybe for a special ep down the road. :)

Agreed—would have been a gamble, but they should have taken that chance.

The greatest voice of all time.

That was my take exactly. It’s human nature to want to repeat a positive experience, but it’s a much more complicated matter when the experience is a relationship.