This is not interesting to anybody and I know I’m an annoying pedant and I know I’m coming across as though I’m calling out something that doesn’t need calling out but, just on the off-chance that somebody cares: the movie isn’t “overlit”, it’s lit exactly the way you’re supposed to light something shot with a digital…

“You can take any quote, and it’s 10 times funnier if you say it was taken the day before 9/11.”

I agree that we’ve lost the “Rebecca at work” storyline for several episodes now but I’m reading a lot (not just here) that comes across as people seeing Rebecca focusing on her love life as some sort of step back, or that it’s unrealistic, or that it’s cliche and reducing a woman to only focusing on finding a man,…

every review feels like an essay he didn’t want to write for that GE class he didn’t even want to take

Telling Rupert that she was going to wear red to his funeral, be a beacon of joy, and to fuck off and die - amazing

My guess is that Rupert is aware of something coming down the chute that Rebecca can’t see yet. Maybe the final fallout of the Dubai Air situation?

I’m not sure what that would really add to the story. I think an essential element of the story is that Ted doesn’t know why his father killed himself, and that feels like a failure on his part.

Ted’s comments about his father not knowing what a great dad he was, and how knowing might have changed things, suggested to me that mental health played the largest part in his death.

In fairness, I didn’t make it past the tagline this week. Criticism is one thing, but maybe next season AV Club can find someone that can actually share an enjoyable experience. 

The Keely/Jaime thing feels like a Jaime took his shot, Keely will stay with Roy, Jaime will leave (probably with Nate) to avoid seeing them together every day.

Good thing the episodes are actually good, then.

I don’t understand how one can rightly applaud Waddingham without mentioning Harriet Walter (niece of Christopher Lee!) as her mother. The two of them made this episode, their scenes even stronger than Lasso and Sharon irrespective of how great Sudeikis was.

So I was actually dreading that Rupert might be the funeral in this episode and we would never see ASH again but I am so happy to see he’s got an evil goatee and is manipulating Nate for his nefarious purposes. This is the darkest timeline.

There’s no rule that says comedy has to be under 30 minutes. Just silly, outdated “traditions”. More comedies should have longer episodes.

At this point Jamie confessing his love for Roy would have felt less out of nowhere than the Keeley stuff.

I just struggle to understand the why behind this movie, other than it was a hit on Broadway. DEH’s staging was fairly utilitarian and there aren’t really any big show-stopping numbers that would lend themselves to a glitzy Hollywood production or gigantic sets. If the impetus was to preserve Ben Platt’s performance,…

What? Sorry, Myles. I disagree. This was a solid B+.

I’m happy Brendan Hunt got a showcase episode and I couldn’t care less if some people found it to be tangential to the series.

First time, long time here, calling to see if I’m the only one here, but I’m genuinely perplexed by this reviewer. I am rather convinced that we’re watching two different shows.

Has that line ever worked?!