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I liked the case of the week more than the one before. Justin and his relationship with his dad was cute, though his mom seems awful. The parallels with Veronica and her mom were a little on the explicit side, but that's okay. Liked the shots of Duncan at the dinner table where it made it seem like some absurdly long table with them all barely in earshot but then eventually showed it was normal. Also liked the hallucination with Lily. The dog that got given away because she peed in the flower beds, though? A little much.

Gotta be a wig, right? I never notice things like that, probably due to those pesky Y chromosomes. Parish Hilton, huh? I had forgotten that happened. Well...yeah, okay. Not a hugely great case-of-the-week, as those things go. Not terrible or anything, just a bit bland. It does definitely bring the class divide into much sharper relief than the pilot. I liked the whole traffic ticket bit, despite the newspaper assignment (*and* car trouble - well, Logan-given car trouble, at least) being kind of contrived. (Also, the Lily Kane thing ripped this town apart less than a year ago - would the sherif's department lady really not recognize the name? I guess if she moved to town since then it could be seen as a sign that, though the whole thing completely redefined Veronica's life, it maybe didn't actually change the town that much overall.) Weevil is indeed a bit more of a softie - he even tells that rando to stop his gang's brutal beating of his cousin before they went too far! Though to be fair, cousin was a major douche.

Oh, way too many. Here's all the ones in my Downcast, most of which I stay current with or am working my way through backlogs of: * Affirmation Nation with Bob Ducca (still in there in the vain hope that it will return one day) * Analyze Phish (/Fish) * All Songs Considered * Call Chelsea Peretti – mostly just Chelsea Peretti being silly. Not essential, but fun. * Comedy Bang Bang * The Dana Gould Hour - comedians talking about stuff. Not essential, except for the one where Monika Scott talks about her experience being in a mass shooting, which holy shit. * DecodeDC * Doug Loves Movies * Eban Schletter's Fantastical Musicorium * Extra Hot Great, obviously * Fresh Air - yeah, I actually listen to every episode, though I'm a month or two behind right now. * Mike Detective (defunct) * The Moth – those of you who live in/near non-tiny cities should check if they do their "story slams" nearby, in person. They're great fun. * My Brother, My Brother And Me - delightful. * Nerd Poker - Brian Posehn and some other comedians / writers play DnD. Pretty fun, though if you don't/haven't played yourself I don't know how accessible it is. * On the Media - my favorite news-type show. Some interesting internet-related content too, on their new subpodcast TLDR. * Planet Money - also a great newsy show. * Pod F Tompkast (probably defunct) * Pop Culture Happy Hour – seems like y'all mostly know about this already, but any EHG fans should definitely be listening to this.... * Radiolab * This American Life * Thrilling Adventure Hour - delightful old-timey radio stories that are really funny. * The Todd Glass Show - it's rambly, really long, and his "special episodes" are mostly intolerable, but the sheer joy that Todd and his friends have doing silly bits is infectious. * The Truth - "serious" radio fiction, like short stories or whatever but less pretentious. I'm a big fan. * Welcome to Night Vale

I just checked whether this was still on Netflix or anywhere like two weeks ago and was disappointed I wouldn't get to do a rewatch. Thanks for mentioning it was on Amazon on the podcast, gang. :) (For the record, not that anyone cares, I watched S1 and 2 on Netflix in 2011, hadn't seen any before that. Started S3 but got distracted by stuff and never felt the need to go back to it, so it should be good for me to see that before the movie.) Pilot was pretty strong on the whole, but some of the exposition was a little clunky. I had forgotten what a dick Weevil was - they softened him up later on, yeah? Also, in my head Lily was some kind of perfectly-lovable angel, which she definitely wasn't in that flashback - she struck me as pretty annoying in that carwash scene. The main thing I remember from the early episodes in watch-through one was having trouble telling the rich California white boys apart (Duncan, Logan, and Troy), but I guess I still remember them enough (and also no Troy yet). I don't know if I completely agree that the voiceover isn't at all annoying. It did help the pilot move and would have been hard to do without, but I guess I was a little frustrated by it because it was the main deliverer of the exposition clunkiness.