I've been rewatching it on Netflix and, well, it's not as good as I remember it being, to be kind about it.

You're describing your personal experience as if it's a universal truth for some reason.

Were you born without eyelids?

So we're just going to ignore this hate crime, huh?

Speed Racer doesn't get a fraction of the love it deserves.

Have to say bravo to the team that put together that opening set piece with the derelict cruise ship, pool water sloshing over the sides, and then sinking after the impact. I realize much of it was CG, but it was well done.

I'm not a huge Louie CK fan, like his stand up well enough, but I had to skip through most of his scenes once Fred and Carrie (mostly Fred) made it awkward.

Gin created by magic, or gin with magical properties. What else could it be, really?

We've seen how Brakebills treats failures, but not how they treat successful graduates. There's no reason to think they'd be banned from campus.

Bonus points for actually having scenes/a plot about learning magic in a show about a magic school! Until this ep we've seen more of Julia learning than any of the actual students.

His exact line, re: Arabic, was "I aced it here". Emph added. Only a graduated former or ex student would make a distinction like that.

The raison d'être of capitalism is to make a minority of already wealthy people wealither by exploiting employees, consumers, and the public in general in any way possible. Unlike Listerine inventing bad breath to sell its treatment or Hallmark inventing Valentines Day to sell cards, Uber didn't invent the shitty taxi…

Bravo for the Kath and Dave sketches taking on the fetishizing of minority status, and how established groups try to deny the same status to minorities who intersect historical majorities.

Then you must be The One. You know, from the prophecy? The One has never had a bad experience in a cab, never had their debit or credit card declined because the machine was broken (or non existent), never had the driver who took the scenic route just to run up the meter, never got the driver who said they weren't…

But it used a physical cage to show the captivity! It should count.

In real life it isn't unusual at all, but until fairly recently popular depictions of gay men in television and film tended more toward the Jack McFarland end of the spectrum than, say, the John Cooper end.

Wasn't Bandon held captive (mentally) for more than an episode?

This is a show that includes lines of dialogue such as "Dave, for a leading-man type you are taken with some outlandish behaviour" and " [Max is] like a fresh new take on a gay guy". I don't think they were meant to be conversations real people would have about their friends.

Didn't a Canadian whiskey recently get named "best in the world" by some authoritative whiskey snob of some sort?

Is it too much to ask that commenters refrain from spoiling upcoming episodes based on what they read in the books? Or is this show so unpop—