I'm curious - when was that? I stopped looking for quality once season 1 was such a pretentious mess complete with poor Jim shouting "IT WAS IN MY DREAM!!!" Since then I just take it as it goes.

Being an interesting, funny character who isn't the usual Kirkman cliche?

If it had 6 episodes it would still have a lot of filler. Most short-episode seasons do.

AOS has been uneven from the start, as has TWD. It tends to vary from season to season. I think the show fell apart when they got to Alexandria and again with Negan but has been decent enough in recent weeks.

"At one point in the episode, he tells her to watch her step on a roof, as though she’d need to be reminded. It’s a tossed off moment, but one that seems indicative of the flaws in both their pairing and Rick’s character as a whole. Rick always knows best, even when the people around him should know better."

That's not slow as much as being in a bubble (and other than that one rude awakening in 1986 with the judgeship he's been in a bubble for his whole life it seems), but I get what you mean.

Most viewers aren't going to know that about the real Sessions. This is just the same easy joke they have done with political figures before. They loved writing W that way.

No wonder he seems to want to normalize Trump so much.

Other than pursing his lips and making comedy faces would he even do anything?

It's an easy out - he's a Southern man with a soft voice, so of course he's "slow." SNL always takes the easy way out with political humor, and they know they will get patted on the head for it. They still try it even now with Trump.

Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary Clinton e-mail pal, was blathering on about SNL being the "vanguard of opposition" of Trump not long ago - that Sessions sketch, which, as so often happens with this show in the last 15-20 years, dilutes and softens Republicans even as it claims to oppose their view, shows just how wrong he…

They aren't keeping close tabs on the news either, beyond how to make everything quick and generic.

It doesn't get funny until Sean Young rushes the stage right after…

That's a valid concern, but he has such a great track record I just have to trust him. That and at least he doesn't want to take us back to 1850…

Clearly the solution is to elect Oliver Queen to the Senate.

Yes. Splat. "Oops."

Or she will betray him but then sacrifice her life to make up for it.

I've seen people say they initially thought the law was actually against gun control, it was worded in such a vague manner.

But they aren't killing people with guns. It's alright to kill dozens of people at random if it's not guns, apparently…

This episode was so '80s and the well-intended hypocrisy/blindness of the show on subjects like these is so '80s that I now know what it reminds me of - when DC Comics used to have "special issues" that would involve Superman, or Batman, or the New Teen Titans. Little Johnny would get shot in the street, or Little…