Back then, if a man and another man wanted to do something in private, no one called it gay… it was just two men, celebrating each other's strength.

Super excited for the inevitable Playing House showdown this season.

I called it when the fire started spreading, but that didn't make it any less amazing. Good to see that this season, Forrest has moved on to literally burning down his life.

It can be two things!

Not specifically. Based on Forrest's reaction, I assumed it triggered some memory of Suzanne.

I am quite aware where the term comes from; referring to such a wide swath of time as a "generation", though, makes the word "generation" somewhat meaningless.

Still better than the "Baby Boomers", which apparently span 20+ years.

Millenials are hitting their 30s right about now.

Nah, 30 Rock's first season might still be its best.

If it helps, The West Wing is crazy overrated, too.

I had forgotten how "Nothing we haven't done before" reflects Gilroy's line to Vic in (I think) the penultimate episode of season 1: "Nothing you haven't done before."

SPOILER?

Haha, I definitely caught that (is that next episode?)

I loved The State, but I was never able to get into Stella or Childrens Hospital.

All good points. What I think is that we're not necessarily told Billings is an actively detrimental captain so much as a fairly useless one— a scarecrow could do his job, more or less. I think the only time anyone says he's terrible is when Claudette goes on her rant late in the season, and specifically points out…

Oh, yeah, I really enjoyed the performance as well.

I don't think it's unfair to want to watch a television show without feeling completely alienated by its treatment of people like me.

Could you refresh me as to what Mad Men, Breaking Bad, or Deadwood "had supportive to say about LGBT people"?

But this is where we differ on how we view shows. I don't believe in the notion that "Any viewpoint a character in the text expresses, that isn't explicitly rejected by someone else, is implicitly supported by the author." It's a story, not a political treatise or statement of beliefs. Stories are populated with…

Okay, but "gay characters have not been serviced well by the show" is very different from "This LGBTQ character is X, so the author must think all LGBTQ people are X."