The episode title is “A God Walks Into a Bar.”

Of course he’s not “in the statue.”

OMG that’s awesome! Thanks so much for doing that -- I love it.

Left-wingers say they’re woke and right wingers complain that they’re incels, so yeah.

Damn it, I don’t care what anyone says — I’ve been head over heels in love with Episode IX since the first teaser and the title reveal (and, I guess, the announcement that it would be Abrams rather than the snide, soulless automaton who made those horrible Jurassic Park sequels).

I wasn’t necessarily referring to his movies. (And I’m a big fan of his <i>Star Trek</i> stuff but I really don’t want to get into a religious argument.)

I can see J. J. Abrams totally pulling a rabbit out of a hat — he’s done it before. Just some clever Star Wars-style retconning:

Anyone still here?

That little moment where Chuck is complemented so effusively for his legal acumen and he does that little wordless, “humble” gesture — looking at the ceiling and waving his hands — was genius. Given all we know about the malevolence of the character, and, especially, how the universe must have seemed to be working…

He’s so fat

I’ll have to think about that. You may have a point.

It’s not arrogance, it’s reality. (In fact, it’s the opposite of arrogance.) The arthouse crowd who would never go near a Hong Kong action movie, are the people who gave Tarantino his first big push because they had never seen a “Mexican Standoff” and thought he’d invented it. (I love Tarantino, but the point stands.)…

None of you are acknowledging how smart, useful, resourceful and talented Gilfoyle is, compared to how useless and dumb (to the point of repeatedly imperiling the business) Dinesh is. Yeah, Dinesh did the video algorithm, but that was the last time he showed any competitive acumen.

It’s like Starship Troopers in that regard, but Starship Troopers had a satirical point to make. (“Satiricial” in the strict, Swiftian sense, not the more funny sense.)

Big Little Lies was a masterpiece. It makes Westworld seem like Heaven’s Gate—The Slow Version in comparison.

Could you rephrase that, in a way that involves more scatological imagery?

I continue to hate this, with all the frustration and anger of a spurned romantic partner. What started out — the first half of Season 1 — to be so promising and exciting, has collapsed into (as I’ve said three times in a row now) a boring, pretentious mess, apparently designed to appeal to “the straights” who don’t…

In keeping with the dramatic patterns they’ve established, I think that bitcoin counter of theirs is going to suddenly blow up, two minutes before the end of the episode...just as Richard is about to sign something awful (possibly with Belson, as you suggest).

That’s how Dinesh sees it! It’s not true, but Gilfoyle manages to effortlessly turn the tables on him often enough to keep that fantasy alive in Dinesh’s mind.

Exactly what I’ve been saying! Halfway through the first season (around the time they apparently interrupted it for “retooling”) it collapsed into a pile of pretentious boredom and never recovered. It doesn’t help that what I considered to be the two stupidest internet theories I’d ever heard — Bernard is a host;…