Yeah, it doesn't read like a B review, either (nary a negative opinion to be found). But it's only a letter; besides, this is the best-written recap I've read of this installment so far, so any grading incongruities are thus excused.

Oh, I don't know - the gravity with which he tells Truman "you don't ever want to know about that" sent an honest-to-god chill up my spine.

Take MacLachlan (who is so off-the-charts great in this series that he sets his own standard) out of the equation, and it's coming ever clearer that Dana Ashbrook's the revival's MVP. Every moment he's had on screen so far has been pitch-perfect.

Upvoted for the quality of the comment AND the NATHAN BARLEY-inspired username.

They're Andy and Lucy, that's why.

It'll be interesting to rewatch the whole thing once it's done and see how the pieces all fit together, but it's interesting how each episode has a distinct flavor all its own. This one has perhaps the sweetest character interactions in the series to date - Albert's appreciative grin at the morgue-worker's slightly…

Re-re-re(etc.)watching DARKPLACE recently, I was struck by the fact that every element in it - every line of dialogue, camerawork, foleywork, every aspect of every performance - is, in one aspect or another, comedic. I can't think of another show/film/whatever, at least one with a narrative framework, that functions…

The in-universe LARRY SANDERS SHOW was accurate 90s network talk show material - definitely hit and miss, sometimes hacky, sometimes genuinely funny. So there's that.

That's plausible (but, in Lynchburg, few things aren't), but I wonder if he was so named as a speculative tribute to what the hypothetical offspring of Marlon Brando and Wally Cox might have been. Equal parts deeply nerdy and mumblingly, lispingly cool - seems about right to me.

Do as others (cough) have done - get a cable'd friend's login info and get your DECKER fix via the AS site and/or app.

I was going to say something very similar. I admire and respect Tim and Eric, and find something to enjoy in most of their work together, but Tim and Gregg - that's a partnership that makes my heart sing. It may be a gross oversimplification, but it feels as if Wareheim provides a lot of the scatological/gross-out…

It's his twin brother, Jean-Michel.

A Scott Von Doviak byline is always a welcome sight, and the subject matter most apropos. (Favorite gag in the series: THE LESTER GUY SHOW's makeup man is either Salvador Dali or an incredible simulation.)

Gotta love how Prochnow is listed prominently in the opening credits and yet receives about ten unrecognizable seconds of screen time.

And check out what Ben says (muffled, so to speak, by having his mouth full) about what the sandwiches remind them of. And think about it for a second. Ewww.

Some of them are RIDICULOUSLY edited - several episodes run 19 minutes in length - but oddly, pretty much every Weekend Update segment is included. So there's that.

Not the ONLY reason, but not a coincidence, no.

Hardly recognized Little Joe.

The Brad Pitt Effect in, um, effect.

He used to be credited as Leo, and judging by the Google search I just did, he goes back and forth between his real name and his nickname professionally. But by any other name, it would be just as awesome that he's still turning up in their Trek sketches after all this time.