This era of social media really makes me excited for the robot rebellion.

Aw, you've got it all wrong, Box of Cotton Swabs! It's not like that.

Semi-serious trolling comment: Lena Dunham is Kevin Smith of the new generation. I expect her work will be regarded like Garden State/Clerks/Suburbia.

This season seems to have an emerging theme - the breaking of the last boundaries that Philip and Elizabeth have. The opening is a bleak and awful depiction of how far the (seemingly less jaded) Philip can go when he lets his asset get murdered. And since then, we see P&E show real emotional links to their children…

Lois Smith should just get the Emmy for Guest Actress right now. I've never seen someone completely take over an episode as well as she did in this one. What a beautiful, honest, and realistic portrayal of an older person. Tragic, but beautiful.

Yeah, really! He's absolutely amazing and yet his career basically didn't get going until he was in his 60s. That's insane. See Secret Honor to see how messed up that is. Many of the people have good careers, but I think almost all have actually struggled to keep projects alive or get them going (e.g., Bell,…

Agreed. She's smart, talented, and has a great voice. And… it should be acknowledged that "she also possesses many of the qualities that the superficial male looks for." So financing should be even easier in the sexist Hollywood world.

Yes. The show is amazing. It's not just hilarious (it is), but it actually has a pretty incisive view of gender politics, sexuality, and life in your 20s. Fantastic and very missed. It's basically the opposite of a CBS sitcom.

Lots of those actors are "doing well". But in my book, if this is a world where Jared freaking Leto wins Oscars, those people should be running studios and having John Travolta chased down for sport.

Where is Lake Bell on the "actors who deserve much better careers"? Here's my list:

Agreed. It seems very pointed. Kevin Smith isn't great but I don't get why he earns so much specific ire.

Remember when Kevin Smith was the face of indie cinema? I do. I can't wait until we regard mumblecore's merry idiots with this much scorn. (See also Lars Von Trier who I still adore. I don't care.)

Um. How do you get stabbed in the head and not have life-threatening injuries? Am I not visualizing this right? I would think that that means the skull was penetrated by the knife. Or can you be "stabbed" and just have a superficial cut that doesn't break into the skull? If that's what that means, that's not even…

Random question: Did everyone else lose access to all of their old posts? I'm not on Disqus itself, just the AVClub login and now my history only shows one post ever.

@avclub-f81038cd1ecd3d1b9c2ca3f218b804cf:disqus YES! Here's how right you are - I can remember that scene from memory despite not having seen it in years.  And that arc was entirely like that.  The exchange between David Wallace and Michael when Michael quits is similarly amazing - all the emotion of
Michael blaming…

No, it's genuinely the best.  Two best storylines of the series are in Season 5 - the road trip and the Charles Minor - Michael Scott Paper Company.  The former is a more minor note but the latter is pretty much the best arc the show ever put out.  It's dramatically and comedically amazing.  Characters do surprising…

Todd is 1,000,000% right. Season 5 has the defining and best two arcs of the Michael Scott era - the road trip and the Charles Minor/Michael Scott Paper Company stories. He develops as a character, the show displayed edge and connection to reality (the economic gloom becomes real in a way that was very honest - also…

Peggy, are you disliking this season?

Peggy, are you disliking this season?

Also he bought a condo.