Oh, I'm not saying Gus *is* Bonasera. Gus was *pretending* to be Bonasera in that speech—-an innocent man righteously living the American dream.

That's…interesting. I'm not sure what your background with this stuff is, and will gladly concede that I don't know a lot. But due to my personal circumstances (male, visible disability, single) I am in the target demographic for the kind of vulnerable people that some anti-women's groups like to recruit to their…

A thought: for some reason, I binge-watched the first five seasons of "Last Man Standing" a few weeks ago. (I…don't have a lot going on these days.) As a pretty radical leftist, I thought its politics would be unbearable, but it's not as political as its marketing makes it out to be - every few episodes, they remember…

For me, this episode was pretty much in keeping with the rest of this season.

Right. But she's still running it. The female CEOs of Pepsi, IBM, and Yahoo didn't invent cola, computers, and the internet. But they run those companies, and that's not nothing.

xyz "is" obviously "brilliant". He knows how to throw in "extraneous" "scare quotes" when his comment would "have" been more coherent without them"."

She didn't say Claire built the business from the ground up. Running a big business is still hard and successful work. Do you know how many people inherit businesses from their dad, prove completely incompetent at everything, go bankrupt, fail, and end up president?

God bless you, I came here to say both of those things. The first reference to Lily wanting a bra, I was able to wave it off with the "she just wants to feel more grown up" thing. But then later she makes a more explicit reference to how she has breasts now, and…what? When I was a kid, girls didn't have…

This took me a moment. The show doesn't go to the "Jay/Gloria age gap leads to Manny technically being of Claire's generation within the family" well as much as it used to. Which is probably good, because those jokes are best when they're used sparingly.

The lines between all of these communities are much finer than they seem.

I was actually so glad that Phil seemed to appreciate Joan for her competency at the job and didn't bring his black-woman fetish into it.

Yeah, I was being diplomatic for once in my life. I do like Donna's writing and criticism very much, but I'm not sure I agree with her 100% on her police work, there, Lou. (Wrong show?)

Just a bit player reference - no idea what his views are or if he's still alive.

I've said before that I don't want BCS to be all about fleshing out BrBa backstory, but I'm actually very eager to find out where Huell and Kuby come from, if they were always a team, etc. BCS has already done a bunch of quasi-retconning, if not of stuff that was actually said on BrBa then of stuff we assumed—-it's…

It's so weird to me that it even happened. "Okay, my journalism career needs a shot in the arm. I'd better find out what the guy who had a barely-speaking role in an off-the-air TV show thinks of the gays. If he doesn't say anything controversial, my next stop is D.J. from 'Roseanne'!"

Aww. Gus is one of my favourite fictional characters and I could watch an entire season's worth of him methodically peeling and eating an orange. But you raise a good point. For those who like Gus, spelling out his backstory would demystify him and be a letdown. For those who dislike Gus (and the comment section shows…

I sometimes wish the show were clearer on how old the characters are supposed to be. Then we'd at least know what they were bollocksing up. It really rattled me when they identified Chuck as being in his fifties—-Michael McKean is nearly seventy and looks older to me. Which prompts the question, how old is Jimmy? If…

"Chummy with Chuck" would be an excellent talk show. I mean, they wouldn't be able to tape it because of stupid electricity, and no one would want to appear on it because no one likes Chuck, and I would be the only one who'd watch it, and I wouldn't be able to watch it due to the aforementioned impossibility of taping…

This is technically more about last week's episode, but does anyone feel like Esposito/Gus missed the mark on the "it is not in my interests for him to die…at THIS time" line? He clearly respects Mike, and if Gus from "Breaking Bad" wanted to say something like that to someone he respected, he wouldn't have felt the…

I was going to say that that's a unique opinion, and then quietly judge you. But then I realized: I watched Breaking Bad almost exclusively for Gus and Mike. If you gave me a show that was 20 minutes of Gus and 40 minutes of pre-Breaking Bad stupid Walter White doing stupid Walter White things with his stupid head, I…