I never knew I needed a dose of Lynch in my P&R, but there it was.

This episode gave me pretty much everything I was hoping for from The Bridge, but I ended up walking away disappointed all the same.  I'd like to think that it's just a function of the show having spent several weeks with all its focus on the Tate debacle (can we agree to never speak of it again*?), and so the…

@avclub-421d91cd1f20d044be31c05a2908e03b:disqus & @avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus I know he gets a bad rap, but I'd highly recommend checking out Allan Bloom's translation of the Republic; its footnotes and interpretive essay do a really good job of providing the cultural and social background…

No one was gonna top Weaver's acceptance speech, obviously, but that was pretty, pretty good.  (The cut to Anna Chlumsky tapping away on her phone was also a nice touch.)

I saw a comment after "To'hajiilee" to the effect that the Neo-Nazis showing up was awesome, because the show needed to give Walt, Jesse, and Hank a reason to team up.

Right, yes.  I have no objection to Jeff Daniels as such.  (Loved him in Dumb & Dumber!)  But for Newsroom?  Beyond the pale.  Beyond the pale.

Look, I can kinda understand not giving it to Cranston; there's another half-season to give all the awards to, after all.

Walter White's never not been pitiful.

So I'm gonna have to watch this show now, huh?

I KNOW!!!!!

I think Justified has struggled since the get-go with finding the right balance of serialization; I get the sense from things I've read that the writers have always pushed for more, and the network for less, and the fact that the result is a compromise is apparent on the face of it.

If I had any money, I'd give it all to David Lynch to try his hand at TV again.  I want him to do it so, so bad.

I think Hurwitz himself admitted at much; he said something like 'I'd see something on 30 Rock and think, "Oh, they took that from us," and then I'd realize, "Oh, I took that from Seinfeld."'

This was not a very good episode.  I've been hoping that the serial killer plot, which has always been the least interesting thing about this show, would get resolved quickly and with a minimum of stupidity and laziness.  I guess they rid themselves of it quickly enough, but, man, there was a lot of lazy plotting and…

I really, really enjoy Bechir in this show, but his performance on the bridge was very "What's in the box?!"

@avclub-100a2a14a7f2903d29db0dc435c0cfe8:disqus  @pafko:disqus  Yeah, my sister teaches in an urban public school, and she's credulously reported the same story.  
I don't find K&P's repetition of the joke to be representative of the quality of the show, but it was definitely a bit on the lazy side.

Benedict Cumberbatch was inspired, but in addition to the surprise factor, EastWest 1.0 had the further advantage of the hilarious 'D'Brickishaw Ferguson' banter afterwards.

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus The Jess/Nick business was pretty dire, I think, and I can't say that I overbrim with faith that the show will manage to breathe some life into the tired "situation" Schmidt finds himself in.

Yeah, that's a good point.  It'd be insufferable if he were incompetent.

I'm no fan of Samberg, but there is no way I won't keep watching a cop show with Andre Braugher.  I'm not afraid to say it: I love that man.