I thought Gulak was facing the one of the Sihra brothers next week? I was sorta nervous for him there since they put a spotlight on those guys in Bracketology, but he's got no hope if it's ZSJ. He's one my sleeper favorite guys in the tournament so I was hoping he'd get to the longer matches in future rounds.

I think one could argue whether there's a responsible way to take illegally obtained morphine recreationally. As we saw, he kept on using even without the inhibition drug.

It's so weird. Nine times out of ten this is awesome, but… it's dull, uninteresting, Orton 2.0, Finn Balor. If it's Sami Zayn in that spot I'd flip my shit.

Wingard and Barrett are my favorite duo in the business, so I was really really excited for this when it was The Woods. This actually kind of dilutes that. But I trust them to make it work. Worst case scenario, it's only okay and they get a very well-deserved paycheck after The Guest and You're Next found tragically…

Have we seen any example of "responsible drug use" in this show?

CSS's head writer/editor is like that, and I avoid all the recaps he does for that reason. He just kind of submits whatever his feelings are and treats them as absolute fact, in addition to spamming "catchphrases" like "what a stupid show" and "this was a very good thing". And it's a shame, because the other main…

I don't think there's quite a hundred. Somewhere in the 80s, I imagine.

Yeah I only hopped in during the last half of last season because my friend was watching it, and I didn't get what the problem was with her at all. I'm addition to that last scene, I thought caving into the employees' demands only to publicly fire the girl who raised them was pretty awesome. And to be honest, seeing…

I personally would give the award to Chris Geere, but I'd love love love to see Bruce get a nod for AVED.

I think it's up to the actors' parties—for instance, Alison Tolman was nominated as a supporting actress for Fargo, even though anybody who watched the show knows that's insane. The only realistic reason I can think of why she'd be supporting while both Freeman and Thornton are leads is that supporting actress was a…

While I buy that Arkady's gone, I can't say the same for Oleg. I think we'll be seeing more of him, for some reason. He's been made too major a character to drop in such an abrupt manner.

Coon would submit as lead, no?

That super happy outro was too much for me. I was literally trembling waiting for some shocking and devastating reveal. I don't think a show's had me so frequently on edge to this degree since the last season of The Shield. Maybe "Crawl Space" in Breaking Bad got that much out of me.

Season two was the stretch where they just put Philip through complete hell and made him the guilt-ridden depressive he is now. The scene where he drives a sobbing, begging Anton Baklanov to his trip back to Russia was another example.

FX should treat this one like they did The Shield. Beginning of the season, you get pretty much a full series recap that gets like a minute longer every season. Sure you get certain bytes from an early episode drilled into your head if you're binging ("We… killed… a cop!" "Get over it. Don't bring it up again."), but…

It's weird, in the sense that it really feels wrong even though I don't take exception to letter grades I disagree with. It's that the review really doesn't read like something that would be a couple letter grades lower than what the show was hitting on average these past two years. It almost feels like a typo.

I've moved time zones since the last season, so it was very trying to see the B grade, while having to wait another hour to watch the episode. Thankfully, I needn't brace myself for disappointing, because it was just another helping of The Americans. Which is awesome. After the season three ending, which in no…

Agreed there. I believe it was that same episode that ended on one of the darkest notes the series ever had, with Quarles snorting Oxy, reciting a poem, removing his clothes, and walking into the bathroom with the boy we saw earlier in the episode chained up, with that wonderful "building intense static sounds that…

My favorite scene from him was his surprise confession to Mara halfway into season six. In addition to being a shocking moment that unraveled a thread long before anyone thought it would (which jumped even further in the next episode), he brought so much torment and anguish to Shane in that time after the ending of…

And likewise, his accent was a big part of what I loved about him so much. Part of it may have been that it was the first thing I had seen him in, so I didn't have any notions of what he's supposed to sound like. But as somebody from Alabama, his brand of aloof, idiotic hick resonated very much and I regularly laughed…