The lead-up to the scene was pretty fantastic. Hannah, in therapist mode, deciding she "has" to take a phone call when she sees it's Marnie… just so she can pick up and tell Marnie she's too busy to talk. In an episode of moments screaming Hannah's selfishness, that was a nicely done accent.

While she's been pretty gross, Hannah of the past few episodes doesn't feel all that far removed from pilot Hannah who stole the maid's tip from her parents' hotel room. She's awful and in desperate need of reality whapping her upside the head a few times until she realizes that people have valid existences outside of…

When Abed couldn't tell if the group was angry or hungry after the tracking device revelation a couple of weeks back, I realized the character had devolved to a point where the only television or movies he'd be able to enjoy would be shows with exposition for every single plot point. Anything that required…

If this leads to Adam shoving Jessa out an apartment window to keep his affair a secret, I'm all for it.

I can't imagine finding out Hannah technically doesn't even have the publishing rights to the book she sold them would endear her to the new publisher. Like, they'd have to be willing to pay back her advance, then pay some more for the rights to the book, all in order to get into business with a woman who apparently…

While there's a lot to be said about the actual things that happen in this episode (is asking publisher names from a man's widow at his funeral a new ghoulish low for Hannah?) the thing that stuck with me the most was that half-shirt with all the plastic lizards sewn on it. Why would Hannah even own that? How do you…

This just makes me more certain that "5Ever: Like Dis if U Cry Evry Time" is a movie that will, one day, happen.

My favorite goodbye was totally Chris/April/Donna, since I've always liked Chris as April's good mentor and the Donna bits kept it from getting sappy, but I also really liked the way the show handled Jerry Gary Larry's goodbyes to both Ann and Chris. The show's slow decline over the past couple of seasons has been…

It stuck out for me, too, given that I think they reference their fictional thing as an HBO show, too.

I'm mostly enjoying this season, but it often comes across as desperate and manic in a way that keeps me from loving it. The references to season four as the "gas leak year" popping back up didn't help this episode, as it kind of feels like everything from somewhere in season three on would qualify as gas-leak…

Every episode, I wait for the show to just utterly fall apart and become terrible.

Francis is highly likable in a doomed puppy sort of way. He winds up kind of screwed by the show, I think, because he's a pretty solid tragic boyish first love, but Adelaide Kane's Mary spends most of her scenes being a surprisingly mature queen so the pair can feel a little mismatched. He's all prattling on about…

I think so. Hannah and Adam's relationship (and Hannah's relative stability this year) seems to rely a lot on Adam taking care of her and supporting her in all things. In the aftermath of David's death, Hannah is upset about the future of her book. Adam is unsupportive of this particular fear, but is willing to be…

And this is when I realize Autocorrect has screwed me once again.

I think I was mostly reacting to the part of the review with "There is some bit of compassion inside of her—we almost see it creep through when she talks about how much he meant to her before immediately launching into the story of Margaret at the end—but her own self interest is constantly getting in the way of that.…

Have to say, I didn't read Hannah's emoticons regarding David's death in the final scene as genuine. I did at first, but when she launched into the Margaret story my opinion adjusted and I just saw it as Hannah forcing a narrative, presenting a reaction to David's death that would get Adam to behave in the supportive…

HBO Go lists it as Dead Inside, too.

I like this show so much; I had a family-sitcom-shaped hole in my TV viewing schedule, and this is filling it nicely. Jackie is the only character I don't fully enjoy, and even she has her moments.

While I'm glad the reviewer escape with her sanity intact, I'm saddened that Hostages commitment to being unwatchable shit petered out by the end, to deliver a serviceable but bland finale. The show won't even leave a long-term mark on the TV landscape; had they just followed through with their worst instincts it…

I think I've decided to live in a world where The Good Wife is written by frustrated nerds who are using their positions as TV writers to right real-life wrongs in a way their parents can understand. I'd never get my mom to show interest in what Glee did to some singer she's never heard of, but put it on Good Wife and…