Last episode did a lot to make David’s reaction to Amy’s death feel more earned—and not a rote “they killed a woman I love” type of thing—but yes, Amy was a minor character last season, and was pretty much dropped this season, coming back only to ‘die.’ I couldn’t get invested in her death, beyond the effect it had on…

There was a second when I was expecting it to be Farouk’s body, too.

That basically is what they do—destroy computers and burn servers. One character says that he hasn’t seen an actual, physical book in years.

Everyday be listening to 90's music:

“History” should be on here—I’d call it the funniest episode of the series. It’s great.

Yes, it’s when a television show has an episode that introduces a concept for a spinoff. Married...with Children had an episode in the 5th season that’s about an amateur boxer trying to get rich. Al Bundy only shows up for a cameo at the end of the episode. It spun off as Top of the Heap, which lasted 7 episodes and…

So, Heller is really making “Batman show without Batman” his niche.

The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre was probably a better representation of a bunch of people being drugged. I don’t know a lot about LSD, but nonstop orgy of violence probably isn’t a side-effect.

He’s technically accomplished—his movies are all elaborate camera moves—but he tries too hard to be provocative, without seeming to have much in mind on what he wants to say. Just extreme content—explicit violence, grungy sex—with no real goal beyond shocking people.

They should just lean into it and have at least one episode every season be traveling to a socialist country so Grampa can get a medical procedure.

Goddamn, they’re ripping off plotlines from last season? They’ve really hit the bottom of the barrel.

Afghanistan, here we come!

I think part of the problem with Louis is that C.K became too ambitious for the vignette structure the show started with, but didn’t really want to commit to long form plotting either, and just sorted of drifted around whatever he wanted. This show is more conventional in that there is a story, but it’s explored in…

I think when Clarke County and his manager are first introduced, Clark County talks about the connections his manager has. At the time, the focus was on Earn’s failings as a manager, but with both Al and Earn becoming more dedicated to their jobs, the value of being connected will stand out more.

Earn is definitely being more mature and authoritative this episode than we’ve seen him before. Usually he’s kind of passive and defers to Al, but here he’s clearly in charge of the move and took the initiative in vetting the lawyer beforehand. He’s frustrated in a way we haven’t really seen before.

I think a part of the ending is Al thinking about what he really expects of Earn. Al frames the family thing as being Earn doing what others won’t, but it’s also a level of trust—that Earn will have always have his back. However, Clark County’s manager taking the blame for the gun isn’t trust, but subservience. Al…

Simply saying the bag was his in security is taking the fall, even if he is ultimately able to dodge the charge.

I think Earn having more of an inner-life may have been part of the initial pitch—with the whole “Princeton dropout” thing, and his parents being in the pilot—but the show has become more of an ensemble and Al thinking about his career has been an undercurrent of this season, most explicitly in “Woods.” Here, his…

The conversation in “North of the Border” was a warning—Al wasn’t even planning on having that conversation during the trip, and only says that he had been talking with Clark County’s manager, not that he was signing on. It was a severe ‘no more mistakes’ warning, but Al wasn’t quite ready to sign with a different…

Earn’s efforts at fatherhood are the most endearing* thing about him. He’s not father of the year, but whenever the show focuses on him being a father—which isn’t often, for various reasons—he’s engaged and making a genuine attempt, regardless of the status of his and Van’s relationship. A lot of other shows would…