There is so much we don’t know about the recovery process, mainly because addiction recovery has been so thoroughly wrapped up in our puritanical notions of morality and guilt. “12 Steps” success rate is not significantly different from “cold-turkey.” There is a lot of psuedo-science, homey aphorisms taken as fact,…

Yeah, in addition to a contingent of folks who took umbrage at some late night joke about how the 2020 election was between two extremely old, white men, and that whomever won would not change the country in any fundamentally significant way. Lots of #Resistance types took offenses and were looking for any excuse to…

Definitely one of the most consistent sitcoms of the last twenty years. After the second season, the lows are really never too low, and the highs are some of the best TV American comedy you could hope for.

Seemed oddly conspicuous that Z would not come up at all (I guess alluded to with talk of “bridge people”). Wondering if they reached out to Coleman or if there was any falling out between them.

Good point; at least with Cosby and Romanski, with drugs and alcohol being the primary means of assault, I could see Dennis thinking that that’s “beneath” him. 

I think they had to choose between devoting two or more episodes to 2020 and the “Year in Review” style. I can see the strengths and weaknesses with both approaches, but after watching the premier, I do kinda wish they would have spent more time following one or two interlocking schemes for a few episodes than to…

We are living in the era of New Sincerity, possibly at it's apex.

I must be honest that “Charlie and Dee Find Love” is one of the few episodes I can’t rewatch.

Frank’s Little Beauties should 100% be on this list.

Yo, where my Senators at?

Very season two. I feel like Season 5 and onward, Dennis and Dee would still not like Nazis, but not for any shred of humanity, just because it’s embarrassing and gauche. Really interested to see what they do with Jan 6 and QAnon this season.

“I felt teeny-tiny like Thumbalina”

I feel similarly about “Cricket’s Story” (“Cricket’s Tale”? I don’t remember). I feel like that’s an example where the cruelty is just for the sake of cruelty, without any larger satire or point.

The problem was too many black guys in the bar. For whatever reason, black bars don’t win awards.

How do you create an environment on set to help actors work to their best potential?

RS: You make them work to their best potential.

What fucked-up shit is going to happen to that shell?

Right, and it’s already been established that his mother had him vaccinated for everything under the sun.

Easily the greatest director to make a commercial for Amazon. Such an artist. 

Work shed.

One thing I’m noticing is how series of the early aughts had such a different tone from series of the teens. I think Community is the best (meaning the best Halloween episode) and seems to bridge the gap between the aughts’ ironic detachment and the teens’ New Sincerity.