I think this is right. It's noteworthy that he brings up Martha, too. He's feeling regret for his past actions.

They could not have handled the otherwise promising "shoes/Evie" quests in a less interesting and resonant way, for instance. They were hardly trying, it seemed.

Given the show's premises, assumptions, and past record of high quality, this was about as bad an episode as they could conceivably have turned out. Jammed with cliches and wooden/forced in its conception, it failed to live up to the standard "Assassin" set and lives in its shadow. It's an unmistakable swing and a…

I'm sorry to report that Mike completely misunderstood the "hair" moment. The assistant in question is at that moment wearing Ines' blouse, which has visible bloodstains from an earlier incident; Ines is seeking not to make her assistant more attractive to the males in the room but rather to cloak the stain.

Give it the Emmy for best screenplay. Now.

I think we agree that it's taken a step away from the Coens, but we disagree on whether it's been working better or not. Don't get me wrong, I am enjoying season 2. The worship expressed on this website is a little thick, though.

Hey, can we talk grade inflation? I am enjoying the series, but it's pretty clearly not quite as good as Season 1, and yet it's gotten all A- and A grades, whereas last season couldn't match that. This season has been good but the tone has been all over the place, and it just utterly lacks the weird grace/Marge note…

"Eventfulness" isn't a proper critical standard, the first seven episodes were good, bad, dreary, riveting, or they were not.

What I've learned this season is that Community is a lot better when it's *about* something, when Harmon has an axe to grind or a point to make, Otherwise you get a lot of soup. This season has been about half and half, except even the part that "works" often hasn't exactly been *funny*. The group dynamics that the…

Now that is what I call an A episode of television.

Thank you, I feel the same way about this particular exchange. One of the things I like best about BCS is that it tilts so heavily, often for comedic purposes, in favor of giving Odenkirk just reams and reams of things to say. I agree with that point there, generally.

This cuts too close to the bone…. we also know it from the heartbreaking things Chuck said, all of which were signaled within the show in prior episodes. Thinking about it, I was irritated with the episode but I do have to give hats off to the show for getting all of us (yes, me too) so worked up over a possible…

Yes. I don't think there's anything wrong with the boardroom scene from my perspective. Even I could tell that there was some intentional withholding going on, as in the Kim/Howard scene, I just didn't care for it, it felt cheap — now, there were good reasons for things to be structured that way but it obliged Howard…

I am happy that you agree they were not "overly interesting." It's an A episode, I thought maybe all of it would be interesting.

Hey, it was clearly effective for some/many/most and it's instructive to see a different take on it. It really didn't satisfy my expectations so whatevs. I didn't "want" anything in particular, I isolated flaws on the way that just didn't work for me, period. I do see that the repetitions (we agree on that, right?…

I think I've been pretty clear, we just disagree. That's fine, right? Am I permitted my own opinion? I wouldn't have written in but I was so honestly, genuinely surprised by the A+. In retrospect I can see that it was better than I had thought and I do think I may have missed something but I think I'm right that there…

That's an interesting theory about my take, but not accurate. It's just one TV addict's honest opinion. It was the first time I checked my email during the episode (!) (because it was so clear where all the scenes were going), and the first time I was surprised at an AVClub verdict. I found the pointed, conscious (I'm…

No, I'm not that person. I'm not saying I knew exactly what was going to happen, I'm saying that the people here seemed to be under the impression that Chuck and Jimmy might work together at the company after all, and it's built in to the show that that's not Jimmy's fate. I'm not basing my negative reaction on…

Eh. I mean I'm willing to say I misunderstood this episode, but it's also possible I understood it and just don't like it. It wasn't so much the wait for what was coming as the finding lame of what occupied that void (Howard saying four times that a decision has been made, Jimmy railing on about Howard while holding…

I don't think it's very challenging to see where I'm coming from — if you're having trouble seeing it, I'm sorry. But let's run at it again. Let's look at the last line Donna singled out for praise, the "douchebaggery" line. It's the same thing as Mr. Four-Guns, we know with 100% certainty that Kim is going to give us…