Morgan Freeman for Alpha 5 or they won't be getting MY money.

It also would be very unlikely to knock him out. He might pass out from the pain, but there would probably be a considerable amount of neighbour-summoning screaming beforehand.

A fire extinguisher dropped on the head from three storeys up… no. That would not knock him out, that would splatter his brains over the stairwell. He could have dropped a carrot on him from that height and it would have done the job; that lump of metal and liquid would have been very literal overkill. And dropping…

"When the blind boy touches his father’s face to get an impression of the damage, there’s a close-up shot of Jack that is shrouded in darkness except for the swollen skin on the side of his face that Matt is touching. It’s a great image that highlights the violence that defines Jack’s life as well as the darkness…

TV shows ARE episodic, they just are, that's part of their definition. You want a novel, read a novel. You want a film, watch a film. TV is unique, as you say, but part of that uniqueness is being able to see the smaller details as they build into the larger picture. Each episode can have its own themes, tone, style,…

That's not really long form TV you're after then, it's just longer films. If you despise the episodic nature of TV shows… well, that's just TV shows. They're episodic. That's why they're series, and not… lumps. Or films.

You know, if you don't like episodic television, there's something I can recommend for you, it's been around for a little while and is growing in popularity: FILMS.

Maybe my expectations were too high, but I really did feel like this was the first episode of either show that genuinely was 'bad', at least for part of its runtime. I should probably watch it again to try and get a better read on its qualities and its flaws, but there were at least four elements of the episode that…

If you've seen any show with con men (or actors, or cops on a sting, or pretty much anything with someone faking something) you'll have seen 'the fake illness really happens' trope. Me, I got bored of it about the fourth time Hustle did it, so seeing it here just grated on me.

In all honesty it does get better; it's slower, particularly to start with, and the second episode is one of the worst, but it builds into something good. It would still be advisable to carry on with the series in episode order.

THAT'S AMAZING. I'd picked up on their acting choices and knew they were both faking, but I didn't register all of that. That's brilliant.

After having been split up at the start of the season they're being very efficiently brought back together. Surely nothing tragic would split them up again…?

I would have been tempted to agree with you… until the finale. BCS was proving smoother and deeper than BB managed, particularly early on. But boy was that finale a mess.

You're the one who was taken in, it's pretty obvious who the conned one is.

They definitely didn't put their best feet forward, with the George Sr ones especially failing and bringing down the series early on. Plus so much stock was (understandably, given the first 3 seasons) put in having recurring jokes that, by their nature, didn't pay off until the end of the season.

Exactly. Easily the worst episode of the season (compounded by being straight after Pimento). The con-man bit was the worst part for me; It literally took SIX MINUTES to show that they were conning that one guy, which was obvious from the moment Jimmy glanced at him entering the bar. Then they took another 3 minutes…

I don't know where you got that A from. What a disappointing finale to an otherwise great first season. Everything about it seemed to be trying way, way too hard. All the incredibly distracting nods to the original show, taking ages to do nothing - but nothing remotely interesting (10 minutes doing con tricks that…

I'm 27 and while I know(ish) most of the songs I wouldn't have been able to pair any of them up to artists aside from Backstreet Boys. Now, if it were S Club 7 or B*Witched…

A few years ago I found an old family copy of Winnie-the-Pooh and, having until that point only seen the various Disney versions, decided to give it a read. I was surprised at just how funny it all was! Some really clever, really witty stuff in there.

I understand Oswalt's point, although I think it was far less nuanced than it ought to have been. It wasn't like people were misinterpreting Noah's jokes - you can't misinterpret 'fat chicks' as a punchline - and it wasn't like Noah didn't have the chance to apologise or defend the tweets in question.