Time for the second of this week's two episodes of Firewall & Iceberg Podcast, in which Dan and I review all the things we didn't have time for because I was so damn angry about "The Killing." The run-down:

Jason Gann is "Wilfred."

Credit: FX

When you're 5, an imaginary friend can be a fantastic thing. When you're 30, it should be disturbing. But FX's strange, twisted, at times hilarious new comedy "Wilfred" (which debuts tonight at 10) suggests that for some adults, imaginary friends are the best kind of all.

Wild Bill (Keith Carradine) on "Deadwood."

Credit: HBO

We're continuing our trip back through the first season of David Milch's epic revisionist Western "Deadwood," and we're continuing to do it with two separate but largely identical posts: one for people who watched the whole series and want to be able to discuss it from beginning to end, and one for people who are just starting out and don't want to be spoiled with discussion that goes past the current episode. This is the former; click here for the newbie-safe version.

A review of episode 4, "Here Was a Man," coming up just as soon as I listen to the thunder...

Wild Bill (Keith Carradine) on "Deadwood."

Credit: HBO

We're continuing our trip back through the first season of David Milch's epic revisionist Western "Deadwood," and we're continuing to do it with two separate but largely identical posts: one for people who watched the whole series and want to be able to discuss it from beginning to end, and one for people who are just starting out and don't want to be spoiled with discussion that goes past the current episode. This is the latter; click here for the veteran-friendly version.

A review of episode 4, "Here Was a Man," coming up just as soon as I listen to the thunder...

Scott Bakula in "Men of a Certain Age."

Credit: TNT

A review of tonight's "Men of a Certain Age" coming up just as soon as I have to take off my shoes...

Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams in "Suits."

Credit: USA

USA has established an odd little tradition in recent years where most of its new series debut with extra-long episodes. On the one hand, I understand that a channel whose motto is "Characters Welcome" would want to give its new shows bonus time to establish those characters from the outset. But on the other, USA shows are designed to be light, easy-to-digest fare - even when they're not airing in the summer, they feel like they should be - and these super-sized opening portions usually feel a bit too leaden for that.

Rarely, though, have I had as hard a time getting through an inflated USA pilot than I did through all 73 minutes (90 minutes when you factor in commercials) of "Suits," the new legal drama that debuts Thursday at 10 p.m. after "Burn Notice."

I've actually borrowed my grading philosophy from Senor Chang.

Credit: NBC

You may have noticed a new addition to the blog - to all of HitFix, in fact - in the past couple of weeks: letter grades. I've received so many questions about them in the comments of various blog posts, in emails and on Twitter, that I think the easiest thing to do is a short post explaining why we're doing this, how it's going to work, etc.

Toni Collette as Alice on "United States of Tara."

Credit: Showtime

Welcome to part seven of our journey through the Emmy ballot on HitFix. Once again, Fienberg and I are approaching each category from two directions, with Dan as the pragmatist and me as the optimist. So as we move onto the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy category, Dan has his usual exhaustive photo gallery of potential nominees, starting with the most likely candidates before eventually moving onto a bit of wish fulfillment, while after the jump, I continue to pretend that I'm a voting member of the TV Academy and have to pick six nominees for this category. (And, again, actors determine what category to submit themselves in, or whether to submit at all. You can download the full performers list here.)

Michelle Borth and Terry Chen in "Combat Hospital."

Credit: ABC

I had neither the time nor the interest for a full review of ABC's "Combat Hospital," though Dan and I did discuss the show - a Canadian import medical drama set on a military base in Kandahar in 2006 - on yesterday's podcast. Short version is that it's a competent but generic hospital show with some interesting actors (Elias Koteas, Michelle Borth) who don't get anything revelatory to do, and a setting that differentiates the show a bit from other hospital shows but not as much as it probably should. Not bad, but not something I'm going to be rushing back to watch.

But for anybody else who happened to tune in, what did you think?

Louis CK in "Louie."

Credit: FX

You ask any comedian why they went into the profession, and 8 or 9 times out of 10 you'll hear stories of melancholy, of feeling like an outsider, of turning to comedy out of some need for attention or approval, and of the frustrating realization that even that attention often isn't enough.

It's a familiar story, one that's been told in interviews and fictionalized often in the past, but rarely has the whole tears of a clown thing been rendered better than on FX's "Louie." Returning for a second season Thursday night at 10:30, it's either the saddest funny show I've ever seen or the funniest sad show.