5 Easy Pieces This Week on a Super-Sized Monitor

There’s so much good stuff in the world of pop culture these days that this week’s episode of The Monitor is a little meatier than usual — highlighting two comics and two albums along with the best TV show of the week (Homeland). Time to fill up.
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In fact, there’s so much good stuff out these days that the entire episode this week is a little meatier than usual: we’re highlighting two comics and two albums along with the best TV show of the week. And with next week being the bow of FX’s fall comedy juggernaut, we have a feeling the meatiness will only continue.

And now’s the part where we try to tie the “five easy pieces” thing from the article headline to “meatiness” thing through some sort of KFC reference. It’s not going to be successful, mind you; we’re just going to consider doing it and tell you we’re considering it, and then we’ll ultimately just slink off in shame. Like, right now. We’re slinking.