She got the mother of all panic laughs in the episode after this one, it completely destroyed me.

I agree with you.

“The Vixen is at 10 at all times so her reaction is her reaction. She didn’t overreact because that is just who she is and she made sure everyone in that comp knew that fact about her from the second she strolled into that workroom.”

Gwen, did you mean “fractured” rather than “fractious”? I mean, there was some fractiousness going on as well (there usually is on this show) but I don’t think the word entirely fits where you placed it.

“Not saying there aren’t some families out there who could be like that, but I bet one worse than Rachel’s parents would be hard to come across outside of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.”

Hence why I said I’d like them to be allies a little more often than they currently are - I just don’t think it’s a HUGE problem.

I agree with you. A big part of why the first season worked so well was because that commentary on race and gender felt like it came up naturally just by putting women or POC into a reality TV environment (or with one-off gags like Rachel’s “this is what a feminist looks like” t-shirt).

I disagree, I think there’s something really interesting about the sort of adversarial relationship Quinn and Rachel have, and I think “friends and allies throughout” would be unrealistic for this kind of environment, even if I’d like them to be allies a little more often than they currently are. In this show’s best…

I think you mean Rectify, and Abigail Spencer was indeed luminous in that show. Between that, Burning Love and this show, she has quickly become one of my favourite actors working in television today.

Did you watch Masters of Sex all the way to the end, Gwen? Caitlin Fitzgerald gets WAY more fun stuff to do in the final season. That alone might have made the final season my favourite.

For what it’s worth, I remember looking at Strahovski a few episodes ago and actually thinking that she looks quite a bit like De Rossi.

Addendum: the Facebook reply was not from her roommate. I just double-checked.

That was an unexpectedly moving finale, perhaps even more effective because it never tried to oversell or over-dramatise the themes of self-improvement and human connection. Something about Eleanor’s impulsive journey to Australia gave me flashbacks of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and Jim Carrey’s dream…

I feel like devoting as much screen time as this episode did to behaviours that earn a spot in the Bad Place was perhaps retreading on familiar territory a little (although it still made me laugh a lot, especially the first person to say “I need a vacation... from my vacation!”). The examples that were worked in as…

I agree that the behaviours that get one into The Bad Place are arbitrary and sometimes reflect a little self-indulgence on the part of the writers (this marks two Michael Schur shows that have poked fun at France, and I haven’t watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine yet). However, that arbitrariness is both pointed out *within*…

Personally, I’d picture Jason running the Boorish Behaviour at Sporting Events Department.

I didn’t mind, personally. This felt not too far removed from his dumbash - sorry, dumbass - character on Idiocracy, and it suited him well enough.

So which version of this episode is available where?

Offerman actually had an appearance back in the original run of the show, too, although in a much smaller capacity than this (mostly as a springboard from which Megan Mullally was able to land a few jokes).

This is a surprisingly tricky cuisine to create punny restaurant names for.