I didn't know that inside baseball, but it explains a lot.

Totally agree. Remember when Richard Lawson emerged from his lolcait avatar? Around 07-08 the comments section of Gawker was a stunning collection of wit.

13th must win Best Documentary Feature. As a piece of documentary filmmaking, it is expertly done. As a necessary piece of every American's education about race and criminality in America, it is practically unparalleled. I have seen few pieces of media that cover so broad, so important a topic and do it as adroitly as…

Amen to that

I think counting on them to do the right thing is a lost cause. But counting on them to be self-interested weasels who care about getting re-elected…that might do the trick. They'll have to decide if they want to double-down with the President whose approval ratings are in the toilet (and if the shitshow of Day 1 is…

*Finally* a good use for comic sans!

This is why we need a sarcasm font!

Yeah dude, that's exactly the joke I was making. Thanks Mr. Literal!
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Anyone know if John Larroquette is from New Orleans?

Yeah, I get it and I guess I shouldn't have referred to them having "named" the character Trouble, because you're right that that's not accurate. It just has the feel of the writers thinking it was super-cool to call a character Trouble, then came up with a backstory to justify it. Like, it would have been like them…

Right, but they pronounce it "trouble" and the fact that a person named "Teresa Rubel" would use "T. Rubel" as a nickname seems weird, *unless* it's a cutesy homophone for "trouble"

Toboni has turned out to be pretty good, but I'll never get over how corny it is to name her character "Trouble." It grates so much that it is a relief when I don't have to hear it in an episode.

Even more confusing, although they were in a federal courthouse the judge was a state court judge, as revealed by his screensaver

I noticed that too. They've definitely started making her makeup more pronounced and sultry; last season she had a no-makeup look IIRC.

"Yes, she's giving up the Good Place, but she's not doing that *for* anyone" — huh? She is doing precisely that; she has realized that her mere presence there has caused some Good Place Glitch that have negatively affected many, many, many people there. So she is leaving so that placidity can be restored for all the…

I totally agree on your second paragraph. Seriously, all she had to say was "dude these lobster are taking me way too long, i need you to break yours down yourself." Her sulking about it and then exploding later is immature. Like seriously, understanding how to ask for what you need or throw up a flare when you are…

Totally agree about Heather. Watching her bully Beverly was physically revolting; it made me so angry on Beverly's behalf. But I'd put Betty from Season 2 in the top 5 instead of Tiffani. Betty was just a trifecta of cruel, smug, and a seemingly pretty shitty chef. Like, Tiffani I cut some slack because she was pretty…

I hadn't heard about that and it really is a shame. I remember reading an interview with Tom not that long ago where he said Paul was the best chef they'd ever had on the show, and that they had to do some editing magic throughout to not make it obvious that he was the runaway winner.

But her face is so weeeeeeeiiiiird! Her nose is so narrow and her face has no angles, so it looks like a muppet from most angles.

Yes, she is his daughter with Debbie Rowe.