I hope not, but this is what people complain about. The Americans is great with tension. That story had tension…which never came to a climax. And now he's out of sight, out of mind. Sure, he could be back, but that will feel like "oh, back to this again?" not *gasp* "that's where this was heading!" They wasted their…

Go figure, he dated someone who looked just like her briefly but it didn't work out…

It was a lot more than that. I believe over 50% of scenes cut to at least one or two flashbacks.

You know he runs hot.

It had to be, in the sense that it wouldn't be a truthful to the experience of its characters to make a different choice.

But it *was* mentioned incessantly in the Midwest that her ambiguous ethnic blend perfectly represented the dream of the American melting pot :P

I first saw her in the "Sex Contract" Chappelle Show sketch, so she's been with a black guy at least once before that.

If there's one man who deserved to be Black and Jewish, it's Tobias Funke.

I have no clue what this is a reference to but I love it.

"Great" as in "exactly as cringe-worthy as it was intended to be" haha.

Exactly.

You have to engage some "sitcom morality filters" sometimes with this show. It's intended to be a little cartoony and over the top but yeah…it's some work sometimes to figure out what to take seriously and what not to.

Is it really a "new" show now?

This ep had me sold in the first 2-second flash-forward of him running from the cops with his freak-out face on.

Yeah…whether or not they should be discussing it may not be related to whether you should TELL them not to discuss it haha.

I think you underestimate the ability of children to take a discussion of a serious issue and make it the most soul-sucking, inane, meme-y bullshit unless they've been directly affected by it themselves. However much we might fantasize that all kids could see this and immediately respect the subject, the vast majority…

But there's a big difference between talking about a real event that needs to be talked about, and something that is a TV show - one which was not intended for this age level in the first place and is unlikely to present the issues in a way that's productive for this age group.

Me too, but I'm blaming Terry Crewes's dance moves.

It feels kinda racist to assume that this is most likely place to find an audience for the other race-oriented family sitcom on network TV, but I'm gonna ask anyway: Did anyone watch Fresh off the Boat last week, and do you know what the ending bit with the fight freezing and going into a painted version was a…

Nimrod is a classic X-Men villain. How dare you!