Exactly. When we randomly cut to the couple discussing having children, it feels like a white-guilt apology for not including more POC in the first series. Because there’s no way even the writers find their plotline interesting. We don’t even know them. Why would we care they might break up?

I, too, thought the writers room MUST be full of middle-aged white folks, when, come to find out, it’s actually “diverse” in both race and gender...(my source being NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour” podcast.) Making it all the more perplexing why these things are being dealt with so... clunkily.

Gemstones is the third-funniest show Danny McBride has done.

This pretty much says it all. Remember, this is a town with fewer than 1,500 residents.

The best part about getting my license was not having to be anal retentive about stuff like stopping behind stop signs and driving under the speed limit. Rolling a stop sign or driving 2 mph over would be an automatic fail on your test, but in real world driving it’s not only fine, it’s expected.

If you have a learners permit you can’t drive unsupervised.  Seems like a horrible standard for “full self driving”

It’s not even just weird nerds, it’s also super bro-ey dudes 

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Not to get all meta but I *believe* this counts as a think piece about the show, does it not?

It seems likely. Mattsen offered Logan the bits he really cared most about - which is presumably (given that it’s the historical core of the empire) the news division. Which, after all, isn’t worth much to Mattsen’s streaming empire anyway. [well, it’s worth something, but it has limited synergy value, so Mattsen may…

I think you might be watching a different show than the rest of us. The good news is, it’s not like someone’s holding a gun to your head*—you’re totally free to just change the channel/website and watch something else.

Many of the most pretentious chefs seem to have forgotten the foundational purpose of their careers is to feed people. They write it of like an outsider sculptor who shellacked a turd and called it art. It doesn’t matter how beautiful, weird, or confusing your food is if your guests left hungry: you failed.

I mean I think the point of the review is that a lot of the problems that plagued that show plague this movie as well

You’re right, we need to spend more time making fun of the Bin Laden moment of the Newsroom. 

Oh god remember the episode where they found out that Bin Laden had been killed and were rushing to be the first to break the story but the tallest white man (who was very high on marijuana drugs at the time) still took the time to grant his coworker, Terry Crews, the solum honor of quietly telling some cops about it?

Alex sleeping with a married man is a weird thing to point out as a reason not to root for her. She’s done so much worse, and is so much worse, than that choice. 

The creative team did have a massive shakeup between Seasons 3 and 4. (Not between Seasons 2 and 3, which is what the dudebros were complaining about). Reminds me of the one Community had between its second and third seasons. It was still a very good show in Seasons 3, 5, and 6, but was never quite the same.

By episode 100 we’ll be longing for the days of Comedy Central Futurama.

They gave a negative review to “A Rickonvient Truth” which was one of those episodes “with a deeper underlying meaning”.
It’s not that the show’s being silly, it’s that the plots are all over the place.
Someone else tried to point out some specific episodes from the first season that have ridiculous premises, but…

I just love how Vin Diesel threw out the word “Felliniesque” as if that descriptor has any bearing on the Fast and the Furious movies (which I happen to love). What does that even mean? It’s like words no longer have definitions. Anyway, I find the whole situation Kafkaesque.