I'm always shocked afresh when I remember Brad Garrett isn't actually Italian.

And The Simpsons makes fun of him way more explicitly on a regular basis.

Honestly I think Dunst is a little worse than Lester (or at least worse than he initially was—I had Joffrey levels of hate for that little creep by the end) because her immediate instinct is to manipulate rather than panic. I definitely got the sense she had a history of getting at Plemons like that to get what she…

Waiting to introduce some of the characters helped, I think. I can see a poorer-planning show trying to give us more with the KC mob, fully introducing them rather than teasing in the final moments.

So I know the first season episodes were all named after famous paradoxes; can anyone smarter than me explain the theme, if any, this time around?

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You can't make me stop calling him Serious Will Arnett.

Isn't this Lou a statie though?

Literally, or does he just have echoes of him characterization-wise? I've only read the latter.

My favorite season is the one where she plays an aging narcissist with a dark secret in her past.

Between Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire, prestige cable has been on a really hot streak in terms of casting pitch-perfect teensy versions of their characters. Let's see if it continues.

Wame of Thrones.

Most of what I've read says the actual season is way less paint-by-numbers in terms of period-appropriate music cues, which is good to hear.

Nah it's just one of those things everyone thinks of and they all think it must be because they're so clever and not because it's obvious, like food puns in Hannibal reviews.

His contributions to the Princess and the Frog soundtrack are sorely underrated, like most other things about that movie.

Yeah, well, it was also popular in the wake of the s1 finale to think it had ruined the entire season. Same for Fargo, now that you mention it.

This is an entirely accurate comment but it also demands to be read in a really cartoony Midwestern accent.

I think True Detective season 2 will get some hindsight re-evaluation, honestly.

So glad to be reading all these great reviews. I didn't think it would suck or anything but I couldn't see how something could top itself when it was going from having Molly Solverson and Lorne Malvo in it to not.

The first time I really watched it was around eighth grade and I remember hating the Fey-era stuff (particularly Weekend Update) and loving the era directly before; that was a combination of me being a bitter, proto-hipster little creep who thought anything current was trash and also that Fey/Fallon Weekend Update was…