but while i happened to be reading Mamet, some of what he was saying helped me put a finger on the vague feeling of dissatisfaction i always feel at the end of every episode.

i think even most of the show's most ardent fans know that feeling i'm talking about. it feels... incomplete, somehow. so we tell ourselves "well, maybe if it were an hour long" or "maybe if it were on HBO"

but i don't think an additional 30 minutes or the permission to say "cocksucker" is necessarily gonna fix the show's inherent flaws.