BUT Top Five is better than anything Smith has put out in years

Yeah, this is definitely not a story that's easy to tell. I actually think the extra episodes are fine, but especially earlier in the season, the bloated runtimes were what really hurt the pacing for me. I also think that putting the jail reveal earlier in the season would have helped space out the "big reveals" and…

I'd actually agree with you, I'm not worried at all. I think he gets a lot more flak than he deserves credit for sometimes. The only legitimate complaint against season 2 I have is the pacing, I think he largely achieves everything he's tryna do most of the time and with great style as well. The show gets shit for…

No one said we're heading into "dystopian hellscape" territory except for you. I and he previous person who posted about it just said we have fear and that it's affecting us. I don't understand how a detention camp is "dystopian" when I literally just explained that we currently have detention camps. Are those just…

What are you talking about? Donald Trump has specifically invoked racist sentiment towards Muslims and Hispanics throughout his campaign. It's all talk for now, but I don't understand why you need to belittle the fear that a lot of minorities genuinely feel? Obviously Trump's chances of winning are low right now, but…

It might be easy for you to wave off everything he says, but given the expansion of executive power and Republicans' control of Congress, I don't see the point in criticizing someone for being genuinely scared for their safety. This is not a great time to be brown in this country. Yea, it's unlikely Trump wins, but…

Definitely agree about the cliffhanger, that was cheap. I think that I was ok with the slower pace earlier in the season when we were still exploring elliot's relationship with mr. Robot, but ever since that scene in the basement where Elliot "accepts" him, I feel like the story has been spinning its wheels a little…

It depends on what flaws you saw in season one. Personally I didn't really care for the thrillery, more cliched aspects of the show and I thought it was best at its strangest and most psychological. I found the first half of season two really compelling and have enjoyed the way the world has expanded a lot. But at…

If they use this as an excuse to put Stone front and center next week, I'll actually be so disappointed in this show. Like they really made this professional, uber-competent woman and then decided that she would be undone by her insatiable desire to hook up with her client? Then again, this is a show that began with…

I definitely don't usually feel that way! I mean I've watched Girls for years now and those characters are pretty boneheaded. I just think having someone to root for made the episode feel more engaging, whereas the show has felt a little slow up until this point. I think it's going for something more complex than just…

That's exactly my problem though! Like I can appreciate the symbolism of the eczema, but considering the show claims to be about "the system," we could shave a littleee time off the subplot to focus on the actual case

I think that's the problem… she's presented as someone whose at least pretty high up at a prestigious law firm and, until this episode, was assumed to be pretty competent. Stone comes off as an arrogant prick for the first time, but they really underwrite her abilities and it's a little disappointing, especially for a…

For a show that's lauded a lot for being "realistic" and super into "process," I feel like it dwells in a lot of areas that take time away from the actual vagaries of the system. Not actually seeing the jury selection is one example that's kind of odd. But the whole compressed timeline is super weird and confusing,…

Easily my favorite episode so far, but maybe that's because our two leads were so damn likable this time around? It felt like we were still poking fun at their insecurity and seeing them lash out, but they had a really despicable villain to go up against this time. Jackie in that grocery store scene was sooooo creepy…

Here at Northwestern, they organized, won initially and then got fucked on appeal. It was pretty disheartening and it'll probably keep any more attempts to form unions from developing for at least a few years

Its rough, bc we are social animals and we do need positive connections, but not all of us are blessed with the opportunities to find them. I feel for you.

I think although it would be accepted in the Bojack universe, it would still be a little unusual. There are plenty of shows that revolve around makeshift families, where kids are adopted. I could easily see an old sitcom centered around the idea that a white dude has to take care of his black nephews or something like…

Bojack seems to be getting caught in that cycle of always diagnosing the problem and thinking about how to solve it, without actually going ahead and doing the work. I can definitely relate to being there, but, as the runner said, you have to show up everyday. The stop-start nature of recovery is maddening and I'm…

it's a side not in the case, but not in the discussion of how the media is working today. I think Scrawler's point is that, as people who work in journalism, it's disconcerting when we see wealthy individuals exert enough control over the industry to shutter an entire news operation with multiple websites. It may have…

I mean I think its chilling, bc billionaires and large, powerful entities buying news organizations IS common and this is just another example to slot into the trend of uber wealthy people controlling our news output. I mean The AV Club literally just did a piece on the consolidation of the media