Elementary ended its third season by leading Sherlock down the dark tunnel toward his relapse. We parse the finale, "A Controlled Descent," and discuss the structure of season three as a whole. Then, Community once again pulls out the paintball guns, and even the characters are a little tired of it now -- how does this new paintball saga compare to the earlier classics? And finally, we have a long meditation on three third season Veronica Mars episodes -- "Of Vice and Men," "Lord of the Pi's," and "Spit & Eggs" -- and talk about its weird, half-a-season-long serial rapist mystery plot, how the show's inexplicable Evil Feminists ended up helping the villain, and how the writers kinda-sorta cheated to keep the rapist(s) identity a secret.

Next week: we'll talk Community, of course, then fulfill two earlier promises: we'll return to Mad Men, picking up its second season with "For Those Who Think Young," and then begin our next retro project, Enterprise, the disowned bastard child of the Star Trek franchise. We'll talk about the double-length "Broken Bow" and "Fight or Flight."

Well. Here it is.

126 episodes and almost three years later, we've come to the end of our long journey through Deep Space Nine. Sure, we talk about Elementary and Community before getting to it, but we all know what we're here for: "What You Leave Behind," the conclusion to the grimmest, darkest, most challenging, and -- I'll say it -- best piece of Star Trek history. We break down how it all gets wrapped up, what they did right, what they did wrong, and what it all means. And double down on our next project: Enterprise. Yes, we're still doing it.

Next week: Veronica Mars.

Well. Here it is.
126 episodes and almost three years later, we've come to the end of our long journey through Deep Space Nine. Sure, we talk about Elementary and Community before getting to it, but we all know what we're here for: "What You Leave Behind," the conclusion to the grimmest, darkest, most challenging, and -- I'll say it -- best piece of Star Trek history. We break down how it all gets wrapped up, what they did right, what they did wrong, and what it all means. And double down on our next project: Enterprise. Yes, we're still doing it.
Next week: Veronica Mars.

We're a week behind as always, talking about Community's baffling homage (?) to The Sting and Elementary's stubborn refusal to do anything interesting with the theft of the Stanley Cup. Then, we talk Veronica Mars, as they start to pull the pieces together in "Charlie Don't Surf," "President Evil," and "Hi, Infidelity."

Next week: the Deep Space Nine finale. It's gonna get real, folks.

We're very, very close to the end of Deep Space Nine now, and we're starting to get sentimental. We try to keep our composure through "Tacking into the Wind," "Extreme Measures," and "The Dogs of War," in which we discuss the growth of Damar as a character, the stupid Ferengi culture (for the last time! *sniff*), and why exactly Dr. Crusher always wore that lab coat.

Elsewhere, we talk about a mediocre Community (in which "Ham, girl!" does not take the nation by storm) and a less-than-mediocre Elementary (in which...uh...I don't know, man, a murder probably happens).

Let's go to college! Veronica Mars kicks off its third season by shipping all of the characters to (conveniently) the same higher learning institute, and things immediately get complicated. We talk about "Welcome Wagon," "My Big Fat Greek Rush Week," and "Wichita Linebacker," and make some frowny faces about some curious writing choices. I mean, the Stanford Prison Experiment? What?

Also, we discuss how Community uses witty editing to make a pedestrian joke hilarious, and yet another so-so episode of Law & Order Elementary. You'll never guess what crime Sherlock has to investigate this week! (Hint: it's a murder.)

We discuss the first season of Better Call Saul (spoilers, ahoy!), new episodes of Community and Elementary, and inch closer to the end of Deep Space Nine with "Strange Bedfellows," "The Changing Face of Evil," and "When It Rains..."

Robby answers the last of Chuck Klosterman's odd questions, we talk about Community and Elementary, but then it gets real: we talk about "Not Pictured," the finale of Veronica Mars's second season, in which much (too much, actually) is wrapped up. We talk about the conclusion of the mystery, our thoughts on season two as a whole, and whether we're going to be covering season three (spoiler alert: of course we are, this show rules).

So, remember all that stuff we said about how the new Community wasn't that good, and how maybe it should've stayed canceled, and yadda yadda? Yeah, forget all that crap. In addition, we (finally) get to Deep Space Nine's final chapter: we discuss "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges," then start the ten-part series finale with "Penumbra" and "'Til Death Do Us Part."

Community is back...again! Again! We talk about the first two episodes, and our discussion looks kind of silly considering how we feel about the episodes after it. Then, we talk about Veronica Mars, as we get ever closer to figuring out what happened on that damn bus.