We like her. But it's "Nora."

You nailed it.

Yeah, "Daddy Drank" is a classic, and from the sound of it, taken pretty directly from Kevin McDonald's life.

Your mom sounds like the greatest mom ever.

No, that's great, too. I wouldn't have even thought of it from that angle. In trying to posture himself as a Good Ally, Todd is actually part of the problem.

Right, and it's more egregious when a person whose job it is to engage the work and write about it honestly gives it a tossed-off demographic label as justification for dismissing and ignoring it.

You're bang on here. It really seems like Todd thinks "debating the finer points of whether white people's fictional sadness is more boring than POC's fictional sadness" is both a worthwhile contribution to the cause of social justice and the extent of what he actually has to do towards it. Again, it's just doing the…

If we ever get to that podcast, we could have a Todd section every week: "Performative Rejections of Masculinity."

You know, it's funny. I had a Twitter conversation with Sonia Sarayia once on the topic, and she brought up something that wouldn't have occurred to me: Regardless of quality, it can be exhausting as both a woman and POC to have to consistently review work that's only about white men. As a white man, I hadn't really…

Hmm… if I click on the link, I can get some good pull quotes to make fun of him with… but then I would give him a page view. Decisions, decisions.

I think Todd thinks his job as a reviewer is to make a big show of about how evil white men are, because that makes him a Good Progressive.

*Olivier Vernon

Not so much "compete" as "replace." Football might be as close to a national religion/ritual as we have.

Ugh, why did you tip information about future episodes?

we’ve seen so many walk and talk parities at this point that would really makes the Aaron Sorkin parallel stand out throughout the episode is how committed JD and Mia are to the genre

Uh… Was that Fred Armisen as Lillian in the cold open, or Fred Armisen as Robert Durst dressed as Lillian for reasons I either missed or don't understand?

"Why does everyone always think I'm a prostitute!?"

Meta!

I had a really hard time figuring out if it was real product placement or not, since they showed enough of the packaging to be evident the candy was Mentos, but pointedly, no characters (nor the jingle at the end) say Mentos by name.

A Shadoe Stevens reference! I really only know him from the 1980s Hollywood Squares.