Yes. I was thinking as I read the review that the title of the episode must refer at least as much to the Camus essay as to the myth itself. It would be titled just "Sisyphus" or something related to that myth, (like "Rolling the Boulder Up the Hill Again" or whatever) if it wasn't meant to specifically reference…

Did Effie think the world would be clapping for her when she asked Jason all those not-so-subtle questions about how it would feel to have two more days and a million more dollars right now?

That would explain why Joubert is still angry with her. If he really is still angry with her.

I think Joubert meant that the impact needed to be bigger. Piecing together the way people kind of evasively answered Jason's questions about how the shot would look with how everyone reacted to that "stunt" afterward (basically "What did you expect?") I got the impression everyone knew they were planning a smaller…

Shocking as it may seem, we aren't talking about the comics.

No. People like you come around the AV Club and "tease" your little spoilers to each other and then act all innocent when you get called out on it. I'm so sick of it.

Sometimes it is, though. And there's a way of looking at art that does see any story or theme as a philosophical statement of some kind or other. I'm not really partial to looking at art that way myself but that doesn't invalidate it. You can argue your opinion without making it sound as if you think your opinion is…

If there's one plot complication I would love to see retired for a bit it's the "Oh you can't go to the cops; you'll look suspicious, so you'd better hang around looking guilty and suspicious until you get found out anyway and end up in worse consequences because you didn't go to the cops" cliché.

Every musical choice they make is something that's already had its little cultural moment. Very mainstream idea of "indie." Safe.

I don't like the musical choices because the pop songs are yesterday's idea of edgy and the classical pieces are really, really obvious, clichéd choices.

Do you find Patti humorous? I find her boring. Very boring. Not the actress, just the role.

Gullible viewers were meant to think Glenn was dead. And most viewers did think that at first. People were crying, not biting their nails waiting to see if he would make it or not in next week's episode.

You're arguing here and above using a different definition of "reward" from the one other people are using. keyser and Anthony are basically saying that they would like virtue to be its own reward on the show for once. They aren't saying they would like to see characters get a pat on the head or a rise in social…

*** Contains reference to something frequently spoiled in comments here *** After so much spoilage for so long from comic readers the way I want Glenn to make his reappearance is by showing up out of nowhere in the midseason finale and killing a certain new character with a barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat before that…

I don't think I remember Darryl ever not following through on an action once he's signed up for it.

A cliffhanger is fine. If Glenn isn't dead this is a fake-out, not a cliffhanger.

I agree, but it did go through my head while I was watching that killing the guy would piss Heath off, which would be irrational of him but that's the way the Alexandrians think, and she couldn't afford another fight with Heath at that moment.

This is why I don't think the scene was originally written to be a fake-out of Glenn dying. I don't think there was supposed to be a cliffhanger. I think they made that decision in editing, and I think it was a cheap, bad decision.

Well, to be fair to yourself, Lady Limp basically came from the stockyard of stock characters who die.

I don't know how Glenn survives, but that cannot be Glenn's guts we see being pulled out. The scene, however, doesn't make it at all clear that those aren't Glenn's guts. So the show is faking us out about that. Ergo the show is faking us out that Glenn is dead.