I always think that the shows that do best in reruns are the ones where the cast had a warmth and a report that comes through onscreen. The Odd Couple and WKRP were my two favorites to watch in syndication when I was a kid in the 80s because of this.

I don't know if I quite remember them right because I haven't seen them since they aired—but why I stuck with the show in Seasons 1 and 2 is that it had these incredible flashes of brilliance (in those seasons it was usually once Monica showed up to wreak havoc on the family or when they gave Joan Cusack something…

I wish I could like this post twice—both for your fully justified Noel Fisher appreciation AND for your Michael Imperioli as Christopher admiration. I concur with both!

Maybe because he is fairly hunky? I mean, the man's quite attractive plus he's a great older brother.

She also, in one of my favorite subtle moments, gives Kev a significant look when Mickey is still standing there, uncertain what to do. She looks at Kev like "Help him some more" and then Kev says, "Sit down Mickey, I'll buy you a drink." It was really sweet (I love V and Kev so much).

He wasn't asking for Mickey to do a big public coming out, though. I think he was just asking for Mickey to stop pretending to be Svetlana's happy husband. I actually think Mickey chose to tell everyone like that just so it would be an irrevocable action—otherwise, Terry could just threaten him and pummel him back…

Oh, Noel Fisher has been fantastic all season—you just see so much in his face—all the things Mickey can't verbalize.

Of course I absolutely loved that Mickey finally told his dad to fuck off and die—but I did think the whole thing seemed a little too quick and easy. Mickey has been SO afraid of his father—and I don't think it's ever been about what his father could do to him, but more about losing his father's approval and whatever…

I loved that line—Carl has really become one of my favorites this season.

There was a good New Yorker article a year or two ago about how cops go after drug dealing among teenagers and twenty-somethings. Basically the more arrests the cops have, the better it looks (and it might be tied to funding) so they are constantly trying to get kids to snitch on other kids, they ask 19 year olds to…

Yeah, the bailiff was also standing about two feet from the defendant in a murder trial. I wouldn't have been that much more of a stretch if he had handed his gun to the guy and asked, "So do you know how this thing works? I can't figure it out. This is my first day."

Yeah, I was shocked at Will's death—but it looks like they're really going to use it to tell some amazing stories. I'm very excited for the rest of the season.

I agree. I really wished I could fast forward through the Sheila and Frank scenes this week. Just boring and ridiculous.

I wish I were brave enough to delete FB. But somehow I ended up with a network of mostly work acquaintances and I think it would look too strange. I always cave to social pressure. But I try to just check it once every 2 weeks because the idyllic illusion everyone presents about their lives depresses the hell out…

I really hope that Jimmy Steve stays dead and does not show up again. I think the show is better without him and the preposterous Estefania subplots he was involved in.

Exactly. Eddie was way too invested in Karen's sexuality and it was creepy as hell. She was just acting out to both piss him off and to hurt herself. She didn't anticipate his suicide and is in no way responsible for it. I grew to hate Karen's character but I never understand people who blame her for Eddie's death.

Fiona and Lip are always my favorite characters and this season hasn't changed that—but somehow Mickey has joined them this year. They've really done a good job deepening his character (and Noel Fisher has run with it).

I tried to watch the first season and I thought it was mediocre. "Look how deep we are because we realize the world sucked for women in the 1960s—but we also idolize the whole suit-wearing, cigarette-smoking, hard-drinking men who ruled things back then. Weren't they cool? Except boo, they treated women horribly…

It's interesting to read about other people's definitions of the word. In my mind, hipster always meant any young or young-ish guy in post-1965 America who wears a hat. Like that idiot on Top Chef—Spike Whoever. He was always in a fucking hat. He's a hipster.

Whenever I think of Scientology I always think of that old MST3K bit where they're watching something with a volcano and they start doing a phony Dianetics commercial, "Why do I hurt inside?" "Page 452." "When will this stupid movie end?" "Page 57." "How much money can we get out of Tom Cruise?" "Page 35."