The Incredibles is hands down one of the best action films, let alone superhero or animated action films, in the world. So well paced, so dramatic with sequences that make me gasp — and then feel silly because it’s not even stuntmen in danger, it’s pixels...

The Redemption Of Lee Sizemore:

And I equally loved Maeve, still stuck on that gurney, taking a little of the smugness out of Dolores by pointing out that what she did to Teddy was just as immoral as what the humans did.

Is William a host?

You should! It’s got some stellar acting, and it definitely portrays the idiocy, greed, and nearsightedness behind the financial collapse. But it also delves smartly into explanations of complex financial chicanery that you don’t really expect to be conveyed intelligently by a film.

Clippy: “It looks like you are trying to save guests and staff from being murdered by rebellious hosts. Would you like help?”

I love how much of a matter-of-fact bitch he’s being to Dolores for changing him and then treating him just like Old Teddy.

I had convinced myself that the whole bliss-at-the-lake-house coda was another one of Barry’s wishful fantasies of love with Sally, and that Janice putting the pieces together was his dream-self coming to realize that such a life would never actually work out. Which kept me expecting the screen to then flash back to…

noho hank will find a way for barry to fly like bugs bunny

Nothing beats his role as Sy Mittleman (or, more precisely, as Fred Nunley playing Sy Mittleman) on Childrens Hospital. But Henry Winkler is absolutely brillaint in Barry.

And he has great hair!

I don’t recall who said it last week, but after seeing this episode, it bears repeating: every episode never feels like just 30 minutes long. That’s a huge compliment.

I disagree that he is a monster or this episode firmly establishes him as one. He felt he had no choice; it was self-preservation or else, and the mordantly ironic thing is that he had a new lease on life because of the acting class, the one thing that in the beginning he thought could save him from depression. He’s…

And yet, I still sympathize with him. As shocking as that scene was, I still want him to get out of the business and heal and be happy.

As powerful as the car scene was, the problem is that it firmly establishes that Barry is a monster. On the one hand, I respect the show for forcing us to deal with that; TV often makes it too easy to treat violence as just another story beat. But it makes it hard to see how Barry can work as a sympathetic character…

Barry’s use of ‘Leroy Jenkins’ rivaled that of Dog with a Blog.

Sally was shown to be kind of a jerk before this, though—she cuts off other people in the class to talk over them, she expects Barry to drop everything to be by her side, she’s snobbish about her old castmate who tried to help her by getting her the zoo mom audition. I don’t think she’s meant to be all that likable.

I guess you showed her!

Winkler is fucking destroying. The scene in the restaurant with the napkin over his face ruined me. “That’s a teachable skill.”

I dunno, man. Pretty solid arc to this episode.

“If that Chicken à la King is not the best piece of poultry you’ve ever had in your mouth, you can kick me right in the genitals.” - Henry Winkler