Yes, and I gave you that point. If you can be profitable without recruiting without ‘building a team’, it’s not a scam. The problem is even legit MLM’s end game is still team building when they get low enough. They’re not all started to be scams, but at some level, it’s the natural endpoint. You’ll oversaturate a…

Either he broke her and used her, or he didn’t. This is all psychological level stuff. Once that happens you’re not really operating with agency. I am sure they’d throw her in jail for 50 years if they didn’t think one competent shrink in court could cast reasonable doubt. 

If your product requires you to recruit people to sell for you so you get a cut of their clients, and then their clients, it’s a scam. It only benefits the people who started it. Tupperware and Avon also made sales on products, if you didn’t recruit (or multi level it), you could still make money. I think that’s the…

So the question is do you think he did the same to her, but used her to lure more famous people, and that she’s a victim or do you think she was never groomed, abused and whatever else you want to call what happened to the rest of the women...

MLM is the new way of saying pyramid scheme. Because, no one learned the lessons and they’re doing the same things they did before, but MLM is classier.

And the articles here and on splinter dragging up stuff to make it a horse race, they learned nothing and still do it with Biden. They thrive on misery.

That tracks. John Hamm, Kristen Wiig, but all of them, it was self indulgent and still perfect. It can work but even if you don’t know all the characters, the lines they dropped were great. I love Melissa, but that’s always going to be hit or miss. 

That Vincent Price bit was fantastic though, but you had 4-5 people doing old time actor/actress gags. ‘Go back to your windowless bars, Liberache’ was still the coldest line... 

Always good to read reviews by someone who really doesn’t like a show. 

Think about the ages too, how many people under 40 really know the little rascals anymore?

@midnight introduced us to Fluva, Ron Funches and so many other hidden gems. Shit, finding out just how funny Michael Shannon really is, and every moment of the Reno 911 reunion (or anything with Tom Lennon)... It let me ignore Hardwick, it was so good.

I’m with you on that, one of the problems with the later seasons is it takes a few episodes to get back into the swing and then it’s plot crisis and bam, season over and back to shaking the dust off. This season has worked better than most of the themed coma seasons (Crackers is a show high point, fight me), but yeah,…

It wasn’t bad at all, but it fell flat on a humorless self important audience that was there to be feted. Now, you can watch Ricky Gervais or Tina and Amy take the absolute piss out of people at the Golden Globes and everyone laughs, but they have NO sense of humor at the Oscars. He was hilarious, mostly, sometimes a…

Single episode cliffhanger.. Monty Python, the one where the Spanish Inquisition appears the 2nd time....

This one hurt the most.

They’ve always walked the line on humor and homophobia. The sheer volume of Malory is just like that to everyone, but we’re in an age where nuance is lost. Maybe for the best at this point. 

The first half was just mostly over the top gross sex and violence, a parody of how real super heroes would be in many a minds at the time (Ennis, Ellis, building off Moore), mostly. It produced some of the best stuff of all time, deconstruction wise, mid Wildstorm universe, such as Planetary and the Authority. 

Sort of a damned if they do, damned if they don’t with the PS5 ‘snitch’ feature. You want to get rid of racist/phobic talk, this may be the only way to do it. Someone drops the n word, you hit the report, they snag and review the audio and ban them for life (I’m sure they may be a 3 strikes you’re out rule)... A good…

I’m just wondering how interconnected the writers are. The problem with writer of the week is they don’t tend to build, real time, on the episodes before. so I think we’ll get throwback episodes and what message they’re trying to drive for will just go slower than normal. I still think Archer is learning something…

It’s his baby, I’m sure if they have lines for Adam/Ray to read he’ll do it if the quality is up to his standards, but it’s gotta be awkward to do it. I mean it’s not like he got fired and there’s anger here, he still gotta own some of the rights, but it’s still bittersweet. M as in Mancy is still one of my favorite…