I don’t think you got what I meant. The tower would just be a tower to them. Just concrete and steel and glass, like any other building in the town. There’s no reason to make that invisible. They wouldn’t be able to consciously know it’s the seat of their control. It still wouldn’t look like anything to them. It would…

This is why I don’t understand why they even brought up the financial stakes of relegation in the third episode if they were just...not going to have it matter, at all. I’m admittedly not someone who takes well to blatant ignorance of fundamental realities of the actual sport you claim to present, but there would at…

Not that I’m so plugged in to soccer to really care about it that much but this season just did not care about it at all. We have the streak of draws at the beginning, we have “park the bus,” the FA Cup thing for a minute, and... this game? Maybe I’m forgetting something but... they just in the background won a bunch,…

You’re not wrong that writing criticism is a personal journey, but there’s no such thing as overthinking a show. Not everyone agrees with that: trust me, I’ve been living with this claim for over a decade now. But as someone whose literal job—and my second job—is to analyze media in a way that many would claim to be…

Yeah there has to be some sneaky ulterior motive as the plan makes no sense. Under the current system, buying a team like Raja Casablanca and turning them into Man City or PSG is practically impossible.

I think you’re addressing a few tensions. One is the show’s transition into essentially a workplace comedy set in a sports team, rather than necessarily being a sports show in and of itself. It’s not a dramatic change, but it’s a clear one, and something the show is obviously calibrating as it goes. The second is this…

The Myles who is currently replying to you does. But the Myles who wrote this review did not, since I purposefully wrote about each episode after I watched them to avoid having hindsight cloud my initial reaction.

Okay, but then why did the show explicitly bring up the finances of a football club in the episode in question? I don’t think I—I won’t speak for anyone else—am responding to anything that the third episode didn’t explicitly make part of the text. If they intention was to just write that storyline off, they needed to…

I was fine with this episode, though a little disappointed there was no immediate follow up to the Dubai airlines situation. UNTIL they had a super corny CGI Santa fly across the sky. That made me eye roll like Liz Lemon. 

This isn’t operating with any future knowledge (I appreciate your appreciation), but my read on the Diamond Dogs scene was that the vote was a clear tie—no from Nate and Beard, yes from Higgins and Ted—which ultimately made it Ted’s call.

I guess the best way I would respond to this—admittedly from the perspective of someone who has seen most of the season—is that Sharon is not yet aware what kind of environment she’s entering into. WE are very used to the radical positivity of AFC Richmond, but she would have no reason to think this was any different…

The whole diary/Jess-Dylan thing, if I’ve parsed it correctly, runs thus:

I also feel like John told Lori not to tell Mare it was Billy because he knew Lori would tell Mare it was Billy.

I think you’re very close. The only difference I would suggest, is I think Billy *thinks* he killed her (maybe he knocked her out, or something) and when they were moving the body, she came too, and John finished her off, but Billy doesn’t know this.

As others have said, it’s pretty clear that John is intricately linked to the murder is someway. When he learned about Erin’s death, and in this episode when he learns from his dad that his brother was covered in blood, he appears way too calm, as if he already knew it. And he clearly put the gun in the tackle box…

A Red Sox fan criticizing another team’s fanbase would be like if Arby’s started doing restaurant reviews.

Have no Nats & Astros takes, but just putting it out there that Red Sox fans are the absolute worst, that is all :)

I think I have Pre Traumatic Stress Disorder from this show. I'm convinced it's going to end with the mother having died sometime before Ted's telling his kids this story, so between the "nothing good happens after 2am" and the mother being in labor, I spent most of the episode convinced she was going to die in…

Didn't other people find this pretty racist? I cannot be alone in this.

During Ted's speech I couldn't shake the feeling that the mother had died and he was wishing for just 45 extra days with her. It would put his whole story in a sort of sad context. I admittedly wasn't paying attention to most of the episode, and I don't think this is true after reading the review. But that ending…