Yeah, given their conversation in the preceding scene about giving people something to replace the GR, it seemed to me anyway that Laurie and Tommy created this story just to draw people away from GR

Re: Drum solo scoring: I agree its becoming overused, although the drum score used in S1 of Fargo for Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench is amazing

Between Blood and Oil and Life in Pieces, I should have a big payday coming soon for Cancellation League. Here's hoping for NBC's new sitcom to fail this week as well!

Maybe I'm unsure of the rules, but its even stranger considering she bet almost all of her money on a clue that she knew was going to be about movies. To be that confident about movie trivia and not know the name Indiana Jones?

Yeah, he definitely seems to be the worst with it, but it happens on a lot of basic cable shows (albeit to a much smaller degree) , like the Strain and Mr. Robot as well.

I hate it when shows run over the hour by even a little (a half hour though is just absurd). It makes it difficult to watch shows starting at the next hour, this is why we have a standard schedule that crosses between networks! Don't these shows have any editors??

I think people here spent a quite some time complaining about Noah when that Twitter story first came out, and then the next few months assuming he was going to be terrible, so I'm not sure if there is a double standard. This week definitely seemed to improve his AVClub commentary score

The Good Wife has a very weird habit of having somewhat important characters leave the show with no comment or explanation. Like what happened to Robin?

For a first episode, I thought this was pretty good. Based on what Ive seen so far of new shows, I can see this being the best new comedy this year (for whatver thats worth)

Yeah, you're right. Although I think the adds on older stuff is significantly less than on current stuff, but I agree no ads there would be great.

Netflix seems to be putting a lot more energy into its original serieses now. It seems they carry a signfigiantly smaller selection of movies and TV than they used to, now that stuff is being divyed up between Amazon and Hulu now. Developing original series is a more sustainable model, similar to how HBO used to…

But Hulu adds stuff as it airs. As a substitution for cable, it has roughly the same amount of ads but significantly cheaper.

I think Ryan is hired back as a temp. I also think they also make a joke about his job when Gabe joins the show in a later season, and Ryan describes his job as "bring the it factor" or something when he pretends to be Kellys boss

I noticed in recent seasons, they have become two sides of the "rational one". Kyle has become the idealistic speech giver, and Stan is the jaded, angry one

Not to mention that the opening title sequence probably WAS the best of the year, its amazing. I don't know who votes for the technical awards, but I suspect those categories's winners are much more "accurate"

I really wish Justified got more any attention (or any attention) at these things, but just seeing that half second clip from the final episode gave me chills thinking back to it

Thats a good point. This is also the only episode so far cowritten with Fred Armisen, who for sure has tendency to write about charming weird people, but not in a mean way, like in Portlandia

Also, I think it was the end of the first season and Abed made a end-of-year video that only had the main cast in it. It cuts to some random students saying "I don't know any of these people! I can't believe I payed 10 bucks for this"

Another example of that is Where the Wild Things Are, which had an amazing teaser with an Arcade Fire song that IMO was way better than the movie itself

Beirut was one of the trumpet players, and I think one of the singers was the singer from Alabama Shakes