The worst part of waiting for that shoe to drop is how they’ve made it more and more heartbreaking the more they’ve shown us about the character and who she is to Jimmy. It would have been sad enough after season one, but at this point, it’s going to end up being one of those episodes I never rewatch because it hurts…

If I’ve learned nothing else in my time in Gilligan’s Albuquerque, I’ve learned that Mike is never to be doubted when he makes a statement.

So glad to have this show—and these reviews—back for another tense and heartbreaking season of one of my favorite shows on television.

Worth noting that this episode did something no one’s ever even tried before, which is to give us an hour of Bob Odenkirk without any of his usual charisma or charm. He’s grown so much…

Back then, it was unthinkable that someone who made a weird noise one time could ever go on to become President of the United States.

The part about this that bothers me the most is that he’s publicly apologized, and very much seems to not be that person anymore. If we start telling people that there’s no way to ever recover from or atone for their mistakes, they won’t bother trying, and the world will get a whole lot darker.

Those jokes were shitty,…

Hard Candy would be closest to an “inverse Lolita.” This is just another story about a predatory man.

This is the kind of thing that happens when a large corporation buys a niche community, and is unprepared for what happens when you someone eat it.

wtf is univision lol

I never left the site or went to the avocado, personally. I just stopped leaving comments because I never found the system very user friendly. I wouldn’t describe my experience as a tantrum. I tried to use Kinja, and didn’t enjoy it, is all.

It felt like the system was designed for a bunch of folks to make individual…

I didn’t exactly leave, but I did stop commenting, because it became very difficult to have a conversation in the comments. You’d get vague notifications, but there was no way to organically communicate without constant refreshes.

So I still read a ton of the articles, I just don’t comment anymore. Until tonight!

Millennials are buying so many Wall Street Journals, they’re changing the way they’re depicted in its pages!

To tie things back to the MCU, What Lies Beneath was written by none other than Clark Gregg, best known these days as Agent Coulson.

“Stop! Hamlet time!”

And even all the best of the prestige dramas have moments which are very funny. Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Halt and Catch Fire. The latter of those made me laugh and cry in the same scene.

As the review says, the key is allowing for moments of levity to puncture all the seriousness. Almost every good drama also makes you laugh at some point. As Caitlin points out, this allows you to push even deeper into the depths in certain ways.

Legion was often hilarious, to borrow from your examples. Doesn’t in any…

That’s not inaccurate, but it’s not entirely fair. I think you’ve mentioned in the comments that you checked out on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. some time ago, and they’ve gotten better each year. Last season was some legitimately great stuff.

I have, admittedly, been mostly half-watching this every week, but I looked at the screen during the last act to see a green dude fighting Maximus (and using a positively Roy Harper amount of unnecessary acrobatics while doing so). I have no idea who that character is, or if he existed at all before that scene, but I…

Clash, Talking Heads and Bowie were all at least somewhat mainstream by 1983-84. All had American chart hits in the couple of years before. You still had to be paying attention to know who Siouxsie was at that point.

He was outed in a national magazine when Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was released, almost 20 years ago. I remember his response being that he was upset because he hadn’t come out to his mother yet. This was national press, in 1998, so I have no idea how he or anyone else thought he was closeted at this…

Yeah, I’m fine with the character losing his composure. How Harewood played it, though, pulled me right out of the scene.