"Swedish Sebastian Stan"

This is apparently Chris Meloni's approach to doing comedy. He just treats the character like someone who is serious and sincere and finds what's funny about them in their sincerity. (I'd link, but I can't remember where I read that now.)

It is!

I think the Lindsay/Eric subplot deserves more love. The entire opening is golden. Her monologue of frantic questions as she runs back to the camp! The boob squeeze! The return of the typewriter gag! Eric telling her to take his hand and then backing away into the woods like somebody leading an animal with a treat!…

Technically I'd say he was on key, just bad breath support and very bad (perfectly teenagery) vowels. Issue of tone instead of pitch.

Your first sentence made me sit right up in my chair, so I guess it was made for me.

The credits song though! "And even though/Death is bad…"

I'll allow that.

Even leading up to that, how they all got invested in the story and watched the whole thing through the binoculars was great.

According to some interviews I've read, bidets were a running joke on the set, so "day bidet" was both just a funny mispronunciation and an in-joke to everyone who made the movie.

He wanted a rise out of her. He wanted her to run out of there crying. Instead she gave him the speech absolutely best targeted to break him down. I'm not sure she realized what she'd done, since she told her lawyer the whole thing was a mistake before finding out he'd cracked, but IMO her impassiveness is what saved…

I mean, yes, but also no? The scene is so lovely, and then that wedding!

But this is sort of my point? In this specific case, is an individual episodic review actually more honest in the sense of more appropriate to approaching the material? Like, the complaint here about The Falcon not being resolved makes no sense to me. This is not only because I know what happens, but because when…

Oh, god, how I wish they had. Imagine three-layer contrasting popped collars on an actual teenager who is also wearing, like, navy blue pants with little green lobsters embroidered all over them. And a ribbon belt.

It's just this delicate blossoming flower gracing our screens with its bezootsuited beauty and shy "What?"s, and I will hear no word spoken against it.

Here's what I don't understand. If AVClub wants to space out the reviews over time, fine, I can see logic in that. But dear god, why does the reviewer have to watch the episodes at that same pace? Why not binge the whole thing once and then do a slow rewatch at the pace of publication? Or do reviews all in advance so…

Yeah, the reviewer calling it an "awkward" flirtation had me up in arms. WHAT DO YOU MEAN. THEY ARE PERFECT.

I'm a broken record, but I keep telling you people, the popped collars did not die in the 80s.

Correct.

I'm aware I'm in the minority. I just like to mention that the minority exists.