I want to like this show because I love the cast, but the writing is so weak.

This show is so rough that it feels like they thought it up in the morning and started filming that afternoon with whoever they could round up. Everything feels totally slapped together and half-assed.

It’s a drastically different show than something like The Good Place, but like most modern shows including Good Place, a lot of the humor comes from the specific context and relationships between the characters, their reactions to each other, and their histories, or maybe from a culmination of what’s happened in the…

I’ve seen the entire run so far, but I haven’t rewatched or anything, so don’t know the show well enough to recommend specific episodes. There have been some real winners in the current season (the Xmas episode comes to mind), but I would say maybe try jumping in somewhere near the end of the first season or just…

This is a show I kept watching for some reason from the beginning, even though it started out as a kind of middling The Office clone—probably because of America Ferrera; how can you not love everything she does?—and I’m glad I did. It took a while to get there, but it’s definitely found its voice, smoothed its…

People like Trump and, unfortunately, most of our lawmakers have probably never even seen a video game. Or if they have, they haven’t seen one in the last 25 years and have no concept of what a modern video game is. It’d be like people who have only had someone describe a silent movie to them pretending to have an…

One fascinating thing the writers have latched onto here is how easy and natural it is for Andrew to quickly read people and then manipulate them, either subtly or not. In the scene where Jeff flies into a rage because Andrew essentially threatens his family, Andrew turns the tables by saying that Jeff is hurting him.…

I really loved this, even as someone who’s been following The Tick in its every form from the beginning.

I have to second that. I’ve worked from home for about 8 years now. For the first few years, I used a cheap office chair from Target or somesuch until my brother showed me his Tempur-Pedic office chair; I bought one soon after. The damn thing probably costs more than the rest of all my IKEA office furniture combined, b…

Radiolab just did an episode about the Internet Research Agency and talked to some of these people involved in the “cage” demonstration. The guy who actually built the cage comes across as pretty regretful about being duped and his participation, as well as his vote for Trump. The other people are more like this—nuh…

The code for this doesn’t work. It only knocks off 15 cents, bringing the price to $14.84. 

The code for this doesn’t work. It only knocks off 15 cents, bringing the price to $14.84. 

I absolutely need a fully produced studio version of Twinkly Lights right now.

I’m a robot, and I don’t really get social touching. I don’t like being touched by strangers or even acquaintances. I’m also only 1 of like 5 men who work for a woman-run (and mostly woman-staffed) company of about 100 people, and the company culture is to HUG CONSTANTLY. Company functions kind of give me a panic…

Ugh. This is sad. But could you imagine what the Fox News “LIBERAL MEDIA WAR ON THANKSGIVING” reaction would be if they refused? I used to work for a small-ish newspaper (back when those were a thing!), and editorial boards are terrified of being accused of liberal bias and of the absolute flood of letters that come…

Yeah, this guy also allegedly sexually assaulted an 18yo guy, and the ostensibly Christian Family Research Council and Tony Perkins worked to cover it up. And there are supposedly other “similar incidents.”

I’m curious how they’d explain how the characters celebrate the same holidays over and over but never age. Is it like The Simpsons’ “rubber band reality” but more on the realistic side, as Bob’s Burgers is a tad more grounded than The Simpsons? Or something else?

I’d agree with you that Bob, Louise, and Tina are the show’s top-tier characters and that Teddy has gotten a bit overused lately, but the other characters can be great when applied in the right way... even “Chloe.”

I don’t know. There were some solid jokes and gags, but this episode just spun its wheels and didn’t go anywhere or explore anything we don’t already know.

The first season was so tight and had clear through-lines. This season is feeling a little aimless. It’s like they spent all this time building these characters…

Except The Night Of was created and written by Richard Price, who was also a writer for... wait for it... The Wire. And they both had hefty parts for Michael K. Williams. So I would argue that the two shows have lots of connections.

ETA: I realize that it sounds like I could have meant David Simon (creator/showrunner…

I was entirely expecting to not like this episode. “Mourning” episodes of TV shows tend to usually just be boring and full of manufactured drama. But this really captures in an understated way exactly how grief is weird, difficult, and lonely no matter how many people you’re surrounded by, and how absolutely lost it…