Oh no, of course I can understand why the bartender would be upset, He had every right to be. I was just making a light-hearted joke about how he chose to express his displeasure.

Perhaps I'm revealing my own ignorance, but wouldn't this have been detected early on? Aren't major actors like athletes - they get tested frequently for their insurance or something…?

I wouldn't have said this unless I really felt that the overwhelming majority of responses to this show is a lot more positive than my own. Once again, the show is not bad (imo), but the critical reaction has been rapturous.

No, sorry I was just trying to see if anyone else deviated from the standard reaction - like I do. I'm just expressing my opinion, which is that this show is overrated. I'm not trying to make an objective ruling for everyone else.

He may have a posh accent, but he actually lived on the street himself for several years after running away from home as a teenager. So, you know, don't let the eloquence fool you - tragedy and destitution breeds in all sorts of places.

It's kind of like that Seth Rogen joke in Funny People. You'll never find a hot buxom blonde homeless on the street - someone will help them.

Least subtle bartender ever, yeesh.

Am I the only one who thinks this show is … like, massively overrated? I enjoyed it quite a bit, but every day I read something along the lines of "Master of None is the Second Coming of TV".

Neither is it a particularly available or viable job.

Oh, for sure. It just wasn't until this episode (after the last-shot reveal in the previous one) that I got to take a step back and look at it outside of her personal story. That, and seeing how shitty she was to Emile this episode.

As lazy and cardboard-thin as those British characters were, I did appreciate some of the attention to detail when it came to (broadly) satirizing our culture. I'm not sure how many American viewers would know that the singing contest they were watching is basically "Eurovision" - a really trashy and lame yearly event…

When Jimmy blew up at his family, I thought he was suddenly going to lapse into a really trashy Northern accent - thus proving that he had been actively concealing these less-than-posh origins all these years. Would have made sense.

I think she wanted to bring Alex in on a foursome to show him how polyamorous/'open' sexual relations can be fun. And to maybe get him off her hook a little. But when she realised he was not interested, and indeed a little hurt by the whole situation, she probably thought it was maybe more important to comfort him.

My guess is that she's upset with Valerie for pressing about the sex tape and trying to deliver justice to Emile, when she knows secretly that she's the one responsible. It compounds her guilt/fear of being caught. Or, I don't know, she's a typical teenager taking out her frustration on an unwitting parent.

Say what you will about the show, but that was one of the things I appreciated about Girls. Diversity issues aside, their New York lifestyle more closely resembled the New York I know more than any other major television series I'd ever seen before. Their apartments looked like actual Brooklyn apartments. They…

I don't know if this is meant to be one of them new-fangled ironic things I keep hearing about, but why would she cast a black person in this particular role? It's about a young female magazine writer in 1963 and will probably investigate the various successes and hypocrisies of early second-wave feminism. If she…

Hmmm… okay, fair enough, I guess I didn't pay enough attention to that.

It must be tough to tailor your resume when it's all on iMDB anyway.

Okay, that's an interesting article. And I'm not really in any place to comment on the female sexual experience. But this trope extends beyond women to men as well - there are several sitcoms in which a prominent gay man admits that he enjoys targeting and 'turning' straight dudes. Not only is this a little weird,…

Okay, so I know it's a comedy series and it's all in good fun, but is anyone else tired of that trope of a homosexual man/woman succeeding in 'baggin' or 'turning' a straight man/woman? There is just something a little sinister about it, as if these side characters can't seem to respect how another human being has…