I think it goes from wishful to demonstrable.

I KNOW! My friends are already sick of me talking about it and the record doesn't even have a release date.

I think Alston was just saying that the more the show is rigged for maximum friction, the more rigorous the dialogue becomes. I'm inclined to agree; with Perez and Wallace, there is a placid decorum that dulls any topic they discuss, with or without opinionated guests to stir the pot. Not coincidentally, it smacks…

As did Rosie. The problem with her is not her politics but rather her articulation of them. She is so unyielding and confrontational it's difficult to hear her arguments through the bullhorn presentation. It's very similar to the problem (well, one of a few) with Bill Maher; even when you agree with him, he's such…

I'm chill too, but interrupt me when I'm speaking more than once and I'll go Kill Bill on that ass.

When the fuck did Laurel become such a commanding presence? At no point prior to this did she strike me as capable of shading Mommy and Daddy to the point of being thrown out of Christmas dinner. Did I miss an episode?

If the show has any sustainability issue, it's that Viola Davis consistently blows everyone else off the screen in such a forceful way it makes the underdevelopment of the other characters glaring. That said, I eagerly await the reactivation of Connor's libido and whatever lurks in Bonnie's backstory. And so I…

That was genuinely tense and surprising. Alston says Alias- and I fully see that- but this most reminded me of Lost, specifically the first six episodes of the third season. They share the vaguely defined but convincingly menacing antagonist coupled with the isolated and trapped protagonist being stripped of all…

-Richie has no time for any of the main cast's bullshit and I love it.

I thought the episode did a pretty thorough job of painting Patrick and his spiraling paranoia as irrational and self-absorbed.

Agustin: Get a fucking grip or at least be a fun train-wreck.
Doris: I like where this Malik thing is going, but still I want more Doris.
Patrick: The wide-eyed naive neurotic thing still has some charm but I'm a little exhausted.
Richie: Looking hot as fuck, having none of Patrick's shit.
Kevin: Got a lot more…

By the end of the episode I actually said out loud "I don't think I all-the-way hate the shit out of Agustin anymore. Huh."

Beach sex is overrated due to both sand- and traction-related issues. Car sex has the awkward angle thing. Parking lot sex, however, is mind-blowing. Or so I'm told.

The Woods was 'just okay'? Did you have an aneurysm in 2005?

So the character beats in this episode were a little Psych 101- at least they were well executed. And after the Michael Bay-isms of "13 Hours In Islamabad", the muted tone of this finale both makes sense and was a bit of a relief. Look, this show will never be as headlong and tightly plotted as Season 1 (and the…

This was the series finale. So an overview- including last week's episode- seems appropriate. Have a nice day.

Somewhere between Alton's "I thought he was cool but it turns out he's gay" panic attack and Trishelle and Steven's pregnancy scare I was like "Done!".

Almost being the operative word.

Didn't she suck? I liked just about every early season (excepting the dull-ass London one) until Hawaii, where the exploitation of alcoholic Ruthie was too blatant for me to ignore. Then came the meritless shit show of Vegas and I gave up on the franchise altogether, only checking in for the Challenges (which at…

I don't actually hate Sorkin and I never said he is alone among television writers that engage in moral absolutism. But the writing and worldview behind this particular series has been insufferable from the start, and it didn't help that its penultimate episode mansplained how to properly handle rape allegations to…