Laika027

SO JEALOUS.

That you got the gig on 30 Rock, I mean.

To be fair, your improvisations in that episode were some of the funniest parts.

I am in no way qualified to make this statement but I have a theory about this:

ADHD is typically treated with drugs that increase the amount of available dopamine in a person's brain to try to correct the imbalance they would have untreated.

Weed also provides additional dopamine, which then has the unintended effect of actually increasing focus for those with ADHD. Of course, weed also has other effects that make you feel high, but I wonder if the increase in dopamine is a contributor to folks with ADHD not being "affected" as much because it actually puts them at more of an even keel.

Based on this and other comments here, it sounds like this show is exhausting for everyone involved, yet the episodes still feel light and breezy from my end; it seems like everyone was just kicking around and having a blast while they filmed it. How do you manage to keep that tone up in the face of so much stress and tension? Clever editing? Professionalism? Alcohol?

I’ve been thinking about the TV Club’s approach to covering House of Cards, especially after reading your article today, Todd. Scott Tobias wrote in a season 2 review of Justified: “The biggest peril [of reviewing TV shows week-to-week] is the forest-for-the-trees problem, especially when dealing with serialized shows that may have payoffs every week but also save some revelations for other episodes down the line. And since we’re blind to those later revelations, they can make whole sections of an earlier episode review totally irrelevant.”

Now, it seems to me that House of Cards was designed precisely to negate that problem; you get all the episodes at once, so you don’t have to wait ten weeks to find out your criticisms were unfounded. So my question is: do you think the TV Club is doing House of Cards a disservice by reviewing it week-to-week when it was intentionally produced and distributed in a way that almost requires the season to be taken in as a whole?