I'm surprised this comment section doesn't get renewed traffic due to the "West Wing Weekly" podcast getting to these two episodes.

Yeah, I went back to watch and I see what you mean. If that's what they were going for, though, they could have made it clearer by showing some sort of POV right after the machine took the implants out.

That's so funny, because I read Alan Sepinwall's review right before this and he said the new season is very uneven. I have only seen this first episode so far (and liked it a lot, although I agreed with him that it could have been tightened up with some editing down to 45 or 50 minutes), so I guess I will see.

I knew she got them taken off, but I thought this just kept her from seeing people's ratings.

Ohhhh…I didn't catch that aspect.

I just couldn't buy into her actually crawling into that hollow alone, right after she had every reason to think the monster had dragged a deer into it. I am willing to stretch on some stuff for narrative purposes, but that was a bridge too far, especially given that she no longer had the gun.

I was amazed by how good this was. As a parent of two special needs (autistic, speech delayed) kids and two neurotypical kids, and the husband of a special education teacher, I was afraid this would be either offensive or treacly, maybe even both. Instead, it managed the incredibly tricky balancing act of being…

Apparently he already deleted it. All the traces I can find via Google are truncated as:

You're not serious…?

Right. The whole pretense of pretending it is really irks me.

I'm a little annoyed by that, but it's not nearly as mean.

YES. I just posted something similar upthread. If people are going to engage in this kind of meanness (and I wish they wouldn't), just own it. Don't pretend you're being nice.

Every article about this guy tries to present a breezy vibe of "all in fun!" and "we're on his side! really!" but it's transparent BS. This is all a kind of collective hazing/ridiculing by millions of people and it's not cool, IMO.

I thought most of the episode was average, but the first segment, before the first commercial, had me howling with laughter.

No, but I think cops can retire after 20 years, kind of like in the military.

The actor playing his wife is 40, only 11 years younger than James (my own wife is almost 15 years younger than I am).

I liked KoQ a lot. I would argue that it is the best comedy that premiered in the '90s. Yes, better than "Friends". (And yes, I do have taste: my all time favorite comedies include "Curb Your Enthusiasm", the British "Office", and "Community".)

I'm surprised in over 500 comments, no one mentioned the anachronistic "Are you serious right now?". Other than that, awesome episode though!

But a LOT of kids didn't. They aren't here to point that out.

Finally a voice of reason! Kids were dying in droves back then, from "freak accidents" which were actually totally preventable and ARE prevented now.