Nah, my hate for Fallon still goes back to having as long a career as he did on SNL and not being to get through a single sketch without breaking out into a baby-faced giggle until, ultimately, that became his lazy go-to for easy sympathy laughs.

I’m truly bewildered as it’s pretty obvious. I saw another article where they said it’s a “a fan theory” that Bash is gay. Like, no. He is gay. The question is whether he’ll ever acknowledge it to himself.

I will mark it down to Darkest Timeline paranoia, then.

Also, Chris Lowell is consistently terrific—as sad and hilarious as the show demands of him in equal measure. Feel bad that he gets somewhat lost because there are SO MANY great performances and characters to choose from. It feels like Bash is kind of the show’s secret weapon.

Marc Maron is so good on this show. It is easy to attribute it just to him being well-cast and I think in interviews he sort of does this sometimes himself, saying, yeah, I get this guy, I could be him. But his performance is too good not to give credit to the actual work he does as Sam. He makes this guy’s…

No, it really wasn’t. It didn’t sample Gaye’s song or have the same melody. A few of the beats are similar, but that’s about it. I’m no fan of Thicke, but that judgment was a shambles.

Yeah, this definitely belongs on the GLOW/Maron highlight reel. Oof.

I don't think Carmen's crushing on Bash as much as she knows he's gay. She seems to be the only one that got to know him personally and figured it out. I think she's just sad for him. In my head they stayed up late talking about wrestlers they thought were hot because she grew up with that and he's a super fan.

As far as “cleaning out the gay” is concerned, I also agree with the interpretation that proposing to Rhonda serves a similar purpose. Bash isn’t just in the closet, he’s trying to put a lock on the door. It’s pretty sad for everyone involved. Also it makes me wonder how much his queerness, which is easy to read from…

This line of Sam’s dialogue was so simply put but powerful. Probably because of the way Marc Maron delivered it:

I’m fine without fallout, but I was definitely hoping there was going to be a point where Debbie admitted not just to Ruth, but to herself that she broke her leg on purpose. She didn’t do anywhere near enough blow to write it off to that. She was enraged and did it on purpose. I didn’t need to see her punished, but…

The issue was less following this season, and more that there was a lack of reward/payoff for the two primary timelines. I just didn’t care about timeline tricks used to create “mystery” or “shocking reveals” because the mystery or shocking reveal came far too late for the timeline tricks to be useful.

My biggest problem with Westworld (and probably the reason I jumped ship after the S2 finale) is there’s nothing to latch on to. I can tolerate narrative chicanery if I’m invested in the characters. I can’t find a single person or robot to cheer for in WW.

The showrunners seem to have a utter disdain for the humans and…

Westworld is what happens when you’re worried that the answers to your mysteries will underwhelm your audience when you reveal them, so you spend as long as possible acting like they’re jaw-dropping and having characters talk about how jaw-dropping they are in hopes of just conditioning the audience into being…

I’m honestly surprised Bojack Horseman isn’t in this show.

It’s not followed up on in this batch of episodes, but it really seems like they’re foreshadowing a reveal that Tracey Bluth didn’t actually die (or didn’t die in the way we were lead to believe).

Did anyone else find it kind of refreshing to see Tobias displaying a degree of competence as an “analrapist” this episode? Like, he was still Tobias, but it was nice to be reminded that he was actually once a well respected licensed therapist who assumably had to work for a degree.

I’ve been watching and it was amazing what an aimless slog the first 4 episodes are compared to the second 4.

Sesame Street originally had a sharp and smart edge back when Henson was running the show. Then he died, Elmo took over, and it became just like every other average cutesy preschool program.

“Good puppets do exactly what you want; Hillary Clinton would’ve made a great one.”