I think it's pretty obvious some weird sex stuff happened in an environment where half-assed weekend hippies took "free love" to mean if you really want someone just push yourself on them. Honestly, that some bad stuff happened there is pretty obvious and it wouldn't hurt if the show just let it hang there. I think…

The thing about the good year was it is so polished and stylized, with like half the scenes specifically filmed in the magic hour. Every scene looks like some majestic buildup to some epic action that's about to start, but the script basically feels like something that would have been a throwaway Kate Hudson rom-com…

I wasn't born until '88, but I did grow up in WV (with more liberal, educated parents), but I have know a number of very old school country conservatives in my day, and I can imagine a lot of what's going through Donna's mom's head- especially in the Reagan '85 of Dallas:

I think Donna came aboard just to be a part of something new and exciting, and she found a self affirmation for herself as a significant part in the PC revolution happening around her- especially when she saw what Community could become. I get the feeling she and Gordon came together as real computer idealists in…

You have to remember she is a relatively recent college dropout alt-punk rocker who is apt to forego bathing for days at a time, throw a hotel party with degenerate strangers and then leave them in her room, and abscond from promising jobs to live with over a dozen sweaty geeks in a dilapidated house. She was…

I think you're doing a pretty great job, even if I think you tend to be a little unfairly dismissive of the show's gender politics.* Your complete analysis really makes the grade relatively insignificant in comparison, and I'll go to Rotten Tomatoes aggregator if I want to decide on a piece of expansive storytelling…

He specifically wanted to do business with Mutiny for personal reasons (nefarious, benevolent, other, or a big mix thereof). I don't think it would have looked great for his demonstrating his own skills or how he handled security concerns if his boss found out that Gordon came in and set up the servers for Mutiny. …

He didn't want it to be $3, though. He wanted to squeeze them for what he could get to impress his boss, and he came around when he thought of getting them on a new OS and later the broadband idea.

I talked about this up a little bit, but I really don't think the show is meant to have us judging everyone as good or bad at every turn, but just accepting the fact they are flawed humans- yes, like Mad Men always did. I think the evolution of Bosworth in the show is the best example of this. He's someone who was…

With the exception of the way it's fumbled with Joe from time to time, this show has (yes, like Mad Men) been able to show characters make mistakes and be deeply flawed without really casting harsh judgement on them. They're just human. The infighting with Cameron and Donna- especially the "on the rag" outburst- has…

It didn't have to be Joe, but it is efficient to not have to introduce a new character, and people in the same field are likely to run into one another in business dealings again. That's just how networking goes, even if you don't like your connections. I think Joe is especially limited in where he can go to hawk his…

As much as I enjoy the story of Mutiny doing its thing and would love some more casual hangout show time there, there needs to be some conflict happening in the script that involves other humans, and I think Joe coming in and fighting them about server costs seems relatively natural and believable (if very…

I think this might be a good guide to the trope as well, along with actual times this has happened in history, like- now that I think about it- the time Chris Columbus discovered the West Indies. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…

I feel the same way, actually. I guess you could trace it all the way back to War Games at least, but I know there are others.

Toby Huss as Bosworth has been my favorite character. He can play the kind of grumpy old redneck stuck in the past, and still make him seem completely redeeming, even though he could pull off the menacing aspect of it more in season 1. I think a lot of it has to do with writing. It's easy to let a character with…

The the first couple episodes of Silicon Valley absolutely followed this track. It's also what I was thinking when the messenger got bigger than the actual game in Mutiny, but this is even more spot-on.

I think a crucial part of acting on this show is finding a way to sell Nic Pizzolatto's often ridiculous, melodramatic dialogue. Without McConaughey finding a way to deliver streaks of absudist humor and a certain lunacy to his character last year, the show would've crashed and burned. Of course, Woody's amazing…

He is selling it far better than Kitsch. Somewhat contrary to what I just said, Vaughn is actually playing his role relatively straight, which means his monologue in bed wasn't going to be as magnetic as it could have been, but he also feels like a real person when he's shaking that guy down on the side of the…

I think he would be exponentially more engaging if he were allowed to have a little more levity and break his brooding routine, kind of like he did with Tim Riggins. When Ferrell, McCadams, and Vaughn are all playing dark and stormy to the max, and doing it far more effectively than Kitsch, it makes his whole role…

I'm just picking up the show on Netflix now and just saw this episode. While "Red Eyes" was great and surprisingly worked for me in an 80s period piece, Huss is the best thing on the show. Growing up in a rednecky, rural part of America, I've gotten tired of the one note redneck asshole that always shows up on TV…