The fucking rich people are right. They are correct about what television is supposed to do if it wants to make money. And the writers are correct when they say it should be fucking weird, and then… I don’t know. There is no resolving it. Thank God TV’s dead and everyone’s downloading everything. It doesn’t matter. Thank God that war’s over. Because I didn’t want to watch them win. They kept winning! They were never going to stop winning.
Dan Harmon on the latest Nerdist Writers Panel is fascinating to listen to, in large part because he sounds… defeated, in a way that he didn’t pre-everything with leaving and then returning to Community. Before all that, he sounded defiant in a way that was both amusing and oddly admirable. On this podcast, at least, there’s less defiance and more this weird, surly submission.
(Related: I felt sorry for poor Joe Henderson on this episode; I felt like he was barely there, given the other guests’ tendency to just go for it whenever possible.)