Though it’s far far from my favorite style, I’d add Belgians to the list. Belgians and sours tend to be the beers most favored by non-beer people in my experience.

While I know this was ultimately a business decision, I hope the early renewal means somebody has a long term story plan for AoS that maybe even kinda hopefully brushes up against the larger MCU.

This is where I fell in love with Bojack.

I basically agree. I think they have always been used sparingly enough that they have enhanced the show not taken away from it, but it always makes me nervous when they reappear.

Ok. Good to know. I don’t really follow baseball but that seemed high to me.

Wake me up when they do another single player game the way God intended.

I wish I understood how Netflix make these decisions. I’m not saying it’s some huge miscarriage of TV justice, and I certainly recognize that making a show carries big costs that must be justified by revenue. But with a subscription streaming service like Netflix, how do you even figure out how much revenue to credit…

Anybody know how to make burner accounts, so I can upvote this another hundred times?

Yeah, I’m not sure what the right word for Mark is. As you say, he is explicitly not trans, but I think genderqueer supposedly encompasses a variety of non-traditional gender expressions. I’m not saying that it is not a real thing, but the problem with a dramatically is that if the category is so flexible it doesn’t…

Not as great as I’d hoped from a returning alumnus, but definitely better than last week’s episode.

Yeah. I understand why I should like Heidi, and I genuinely do like her sometimes (she was good in Cuba Couple). But her pure character pieces on Update all have a similar trying-too-hard vibe that I find irritating.

Yeah, it is pretty crazy when magic things are magic.

Not that they couldn’t kind a way to screw it up, but the season three that was promised at the end of season two actually looked fun, so I hope some version of it eventually shows up on a TV box near me.

It’s actually been a while since I’ve made chocolate chip cookies, but I’m a big believer in the Tollhouse recipe. My only tip beyond that is probably a matter of taste, but I prefer them made with margarine rather than butter.

I think it’s great that Kroll and co. chose to answer Planned Parenthood’s call for better representation of what they do in the media, but let’s face it, Big Mouth is probably mostly preaching to the choir. I also think the explicitly didactic format of this episode lessens its impact a bit; I think it would have…

I can’t think of any better way to blunt or even reverse the positive value of something like Big Mouth than for parents, teachers, etc. to show it to kids or watch it with them.

I was at least happy for Jay’s advice to Alex and that she chose to follow it. Intellectual people learning to listen to their “heart” and abandon academia for something artsy is one of my least favorite tropes in TV and movies.

That cold open was so... sweet. I’d like to think that at least some of that sweetness was intended as a genuine gift to the audience and it wasn’t just there to contrast with the bitterness of the rest of the ep.

Terrific review of a good not great episode. I pretty much agree 100% on all of the high and low lights. One additional concern is that there was something about the staging and pacing that at times made it feel prosaic and earthbound, more like NCIS than Doctor Who. But, as you say, everybody is finding their feet…

Ugh. That was awful. Solid D material. The lead off sketch was barely even recognizable as an attempt at humor.