I haven’t read the book, so the in-prison subplot meant nothing at all to me. Combined with the neck rash subplot, the whole night left me wondering what the heck was going on. 

I didn’t immediately consider the “magical negro” angle, mostly because her blackness didn’t seem especially unique (in a contemporary setting anyway), though then again, she is in a lot of scenes as the only black person. My point: I don’t know...You may be right, I may be crazy...

They were showing how Holly does her "process". A lot of profiler shows use the same conceit.

Wasn’t that Terry Maitland’s wife and two kids when they were in Ohio waiting for him to get back from visiting his father? Like Holly is a psychic or imagining what they were doing while Terry was gone for the day?

I am really getting into this show, but I already miss Jason Bateman’s character. I’m kinda hoping he comes back in some supernatural doppelganger way. And if you read the book, please don’t tell me if he does or not.

“Are you Australian?”

Well, that makes me regret buying those B-Sharp Reunion Tour tickets so far in advance.....

Frankly, you could just not mention Apu again and it would not be that noticeable. They’ve managed to survive the loss of Edna Krabapple without really changing anything major to the types of stories they tell.

Wait, are you lying to us through song? 

Or you know, just get an Indian actor to play an Indian character instead of a white dude doing an impression.

But the first thing people think about with Apu is the over-the-top voice.

*Doesn’t need to check notes*

good riddance. who needs the kwik-e-mart? not me.

It’s about time they get an Indian actor to play a character that has been so unfairly stereotyped as a, *checks notes* successful business owner with a PhD, Springfield’s most eligible bachelor, youth hockey coach, volunteer firefighter, member of Homer’s bowling team, barbershop quartet, and vigilante group, and a…

I feel like the best way forward is to recast and retool the character. Maybe have an episode where gets a white-collar job, or franchises out some Kwik-e-Marts, overworks himself at first, and at some point in the plot, his voice changes because he got laryngitis from the stress or something. Or flip it, and he…

Here is my pitch. Apu has a heart attack and nearly dies. Worried about his health he goes off and spends the next 12 months getting into really good shape. He comes back and looks and sounds like Kumail Nanjani

Simple solution: take the show out back and shoot it.

“Was Ozymandias involved????????” 

Was Ozymandias involved???????????

White trash is pretty broadly represented beyond Cletus. If half of Discovery Channel’s programming was filled with people of Indian descent, then we wouldn’t be talking about Apu.