MAKE IT HAPPEN, Brooklyn 9-9.

I thought Jake Johnson was straight up ripping Drunk Uncle at one point in his babbling.

Braugher's rant about the painting was hilarious.

I thought about pushing my kids into tennis, but then I thought about their elbows.

Yeah, this is pretty much my best-of-all-possible-worlds version of the show; not one that manages to rival (or even really approach) The Wire's excellence — because, let's face it, you don't have Simon's deep familiarity of the subject matter plus his extensive TV experience, or that show's stable of some of the best…

I guess I got the sense that they — or at least Reid — might have been initially interested in adapting Broen, but as things developed, became less and less enamored of the A-plot compared to all the other things that were percolating around the edges.  Which is totally believable to me, but maybe the whole interview…

I'll be interested to see the whole interview.  I'm a little hazy on the details, but I believe the show was initially pitched (and maybe sold?) as a pretty straightforward adaptation set on the US/Canada border.  Without knowing what happened when in terms of how an adaptation came to be this other thing, I'm not…

I put this over on the What's On Tonight thread, but it might be of interest:

Well, as I understand it, the decision to set the show in El Paso/Juarez antedated the decision to adapt the original for American TV (the original location was somewhere along the US/Canada border).  So it stands to reason that the show was pitched (and bought) as a more-or-less straightforward adaptation, and that…

So, Andy Greenwald talking about the Bridge: "In a recent conversation I had with Elwood Reid, the writer who, along with Meredith Stiehm, adapted the show, he more or less admitted that the borrowed killer story bored him as well, at least in comparison to the characters and atmosphere he and Stiehm had created out…

Andre Braugher's deadpan is amazing.  If he walked into the House right now, gave that look, and walked out?  Boom.  Shutdown over.

"He's a step-skipper!"

Yeah, the "win" part is really what's sticking in my craw.  But it's good to know that's exactly what Vince was going for!

You should check out Ryan McGee's review, if you haven't seen it: http://boobtubedude.com/ind…

Very much agreed.  The way I put it over on the What's On Tonight thread was that the show was ultimately too enamored of the Heisenberg myth, and that this was a betrayal (a small one, but still) of Ozymandias' tragic achievement.

Ugh.  What a stupid shit.

Also the name of the song that was playing as he set out from NH.

Yeah, I really just have the last act — from the point at which he watches Flynn through the window until the end — in mind here.  There was very little left to him, true, but what was left he got to do on his terms, just as he planned it; no loose ends, no bad guys left unpunished.  And that just feels a little pat.

Well, look, it was really, really good.  I think it was incredibly satisfying.

I can never quite decide what I love more: his monologue, or his conversation with Ellis.