Gah. This show is getting increasingly hard to review. On the one hand, after a very sketchy start to the season (by my admittedly subjective standards) this episode and “Return to Malice” have been damn fine returns to form. On the other hand, they’re giving more and more screen time to Sgt. Hatred and the attendant pedophilia jokes, which are simply disturbing, gross, and wrong, and not funny. And this week Billy gets raped. Has that ever been considered acceptable entertainment?

On the other hand, Bowie shows up again…

PLAY BY PLAY

I hate to be one of those people who say “This show isn’t as good as it used to be.” It’s typical for any poser to claim that it was funnier when it was young and raw, before everyone jumped on the bandwagon. The fact that that’s occasionally somewhat true just makes it all the more annoying, because no one likes a poser (Except other posers, it’s a kind of mating call, I expect), and a poser who managed to fall ass-backwards in to being right is damn irritating.