Yeah, I like Paul Rudd a lot but at that point I was kind of getting tired of the show's hero worship of Leslie and the writers not even bothering to give her a worthy opponent and just saddling her with a moronic straw man was kind of lazy, IMO.

I love that they changed the staging for 'America' in the movie and let Barnardo and the Sharks have their moment. Riff and the Jets get their song that humanizes them but the Sharks stay pretty cardboard cut-out villainous through the musical which I always thought was unfair. To this day, I wish those changes had…

Maybe watch the movie first because that's not what I'm saying at all…

If you don't think the manner in which this movie trivialized and demeaned one of the worst human rights atrocities in history isn't making them the butt of the joke, then I don't know what to tell ya man

Nope, pretty sure we sat through the same racist bullshit.

In any case, even as a Rogen/Franco bro movie, I really didn't find it funny at all. I felt so incredibly uncomfortable laughing at NK jokes, especially as the film reminds us over and over again of the death camps and famine and suffering of the NK people and I just thought it was unbelievably tone deaf and racist.…

The Serial sketch was one of the best things SNL has done in a long time, but it was so niche that I suspect an overwhelming majority of the audience just didn't get it and tired of the long running time.

Right? We can't miss you if you never go away, Kristen.

When Jon said "Thanks for that report, Stephen", I got a real scratchy feeling in the back of my throat.

It wasn't so much any one character on the show absolving him as much as the narrative absolving him by insisting over and over again 'he wasn't himself' that bothered me.

I think I would've liked the episode a lot better if the show's handling of the Finn situation didn't piss me off so goddamn much. The continuous and incessant handwaving of Finn's actions by Clarke and co. was so inexplicable and nonsensical to me. Like the scene where Clarke blames Murphy for Finn killing those…

She's not - her long-time boyfriend is that guy who played the dentist that told Amy she had all those cavities last season.

Imagine all the webisode possibilities of Jake's cat and Cheddar going on little Brooklyn adventures together.

All the finale really did for me is demonstrate how incredibly weak all the characters were. You had the ostensible wrapping-up of all their arcs but it was all so dull because THEY were all so dull. They were less characters than grandstanding mouthpieces for whatever Sorkin was pissed off about that day. Say what…

I read his book recently and dude is incredibly intelligent too. He talks about feminism and toxic masculinity with the nuance of a lot of academics (without nearly all of the pretension).

I really like that Boyle has been less of a people-pleasing pushover this season too. It was bordering on kind of irritating to watch last season and the show's done a good job of letting Boyle stand up to strong, dominant personalities like Jake and Gina while still retaining that kind of hapless, dopey enthusiasm…

I know I've rolled my eyes at the show's cheesy montages to a stirring orchestra before but those last sixty seconds could've really used some music. It all felt so very anti-climactic.

Last week was supposed to be the midseason finale - I don't know why they decided to air an episode this week considering The Simpsons and Family Guy were both repeats.

"no comparing yourself to Idris Elba—favorable or not"

I think I probably agree. S1 was slightly more grounded and maybe it would've bothered me then (like I think the episode where Jake arrests Kid Cudi for calling him Joke Peralta would NOT fly right now), but S2 has progressively been wackier and zanier and I think I accepted a while ago that this is a show completely…