Conchords resume flight

Flight of the Conchords got off to a slow start this season for me. I’ve laughed a bit, but not like I’d hoped to until this week. The first four episodes came off as draft outlines with songs forced sporadically into predictable moments of awkward dialogue. They didn’t really give Bret and Jermaine (or Murray, Mel, etc.) ample room to exercise their comedy chops, and the jokes seemed punchy.

Luckily, with episode five this week, the Conchords got back into their groove and slipped their two best songs of the year--“Too Many Dicks” and “Carol Brown (Ex-Girlfriends)”--into the season's funniest episode yet. Evidently director Michael Gondry (Eternal Sunshine...) had a heavy hand in this latest episode, so we're hoping that he sticks around for a few more.