Sure those other storylines carried the season. All the supporting actors are amazing. But the main plot arch of Season 1 was about Frank and Zoe and it was disappointing. I love Susannah Harker, who played Zoe in the UK original, and thought the American adaptation missed the mark with her character. The series…

Robin Wright is awesome. I love how her character has slowly been taking over the show. I though the first season was good, but not great....not as good as the British original (Mostly because I thought the actress who played Zoe Barnes was miscast and couldn’t hold her own against Kevin Spacey. That casting…

I think they had to take the parents’ perspective or it would be unwatchable. Who wants to see 2 hours of poverty and child abuse? It doesn’t surprise me that this took so long to adapt because there are some serious screenwriting challenges. No one will go to see a 2 hour movie about child abuse.

Training your kid for the spelling bee is like training your kid to compete in National Little Leagues. It’s a full family effort with all the free time devoted to drilling and exercises. Probably expensive coaches too. This isn’t just a bunch of kids who have natural talents. Personally I think it’s nuts....but…

Nothing says “luxury” like a stone ripped out of the earth by slaves, supporting murderous warlords who enslave children!

She’s a 23 year old college graduate. Not that that means much....

Every one in a while I look at FoxNews because I’m a masochist and I want to know what my Republican relatives are hearing. There was a tipping point a few days ago on this story. Fox went from burying the Russia story in small print to putting the Kushner-Russia connection as their top story. I think this is a…

Interesting - I had the opposite feeling about Looper. I thought the visuals were amazing but that Rian could have used a co-writer/editor for the script. Apparently Carrie Fisher helped him a lot with the Star Wars script (she was known as an excellent script editor/re-writer) so hopefully the movie will be good. …

I think Helen shows that if you have clear intelligence in the eyes, your beauty never fades, it just changes. I compare her to other actresses who were blessed with genetic beauty in their youth and they don’t fare so well.

Yeah he’s a brainless hypocrite with no values. But in this one-time limited circumstance I feel for Melania because she just can’t win. Being First Lady is a sucky job in the best of circumstances. I wouldn’t wish being married to Donald on my worst enemy.

I understand wanting to excoriate Trump for hypocrisy and I am no fan of any Trump, but I also feel like there were no good options for Ivanka and Melania on the headscarf issue. It’s unfair that women’s clothing is so damned fraught and political. Damned if they wore headscarves, damned if they didn’t. I’ll give…

I have no doubt it’s legal, I just object in principle and think it’s misguided. But then I’m pretty much of the opinion that once you have published a work of art, it no longer belongs to you (except monetarily). If you don’t want people to reinterpret your work in the future, put your ms in a drawer, lock it, and…

I think Kate looks like she’s in a period drama about WWII. Someone is going to make a brave stiff-upper lip speech about victory gardens. But I kind of like it....

All you have to do is look at Rian Johnson to see the disparity. He directs/writes a tiny breakout film that makes almost no money (Brick), then a total flop (Brothers Bloom), then a film that is a total mess but makes some decent returns in the international market (LooperI) and BOOM he is the director/writer of…

White women can’t wear taupe. Sorry but it looks ghastly on us. What happens in high fashion styling that makes women agree to wear colors that make them look like the living dead?

There is no such thing as control after your death. You can’t control how society will change or how people born after you die will receive your work. If people have even the slightest interest in your work after you die, you’ve achieved something great! I don’t see how future film or dramatic reinterpretation…

I’ve come to hate writers’ estates and think that they should give up control (but not royalties) after the death of the writer. The kids, grandkids, and many lawyers are often far less intelligent and engaged with the arts than the original author and do a lot of harm.

Yeah if I was Princess Mako I’d be saying “oh don’t change the constitution for little old me! I’ll just go off with my cute future lawyer “prince of the sea,” work the royal family connections for an extremely cushy, highly paid finance job, and spend the rest of my life living in comfort far away from the…

Leaving the royal family doesn’t really mean being cast out. You no longer have a title or an official salary, but you are not an outcast. Knowing a little of how Japan works, I strongly suspect that you are still taken care of for life through a complex web of relationships with the elite. You’d still get enormous…

You are missing the issue that there is only one 10 year old boy available to continue the succession (his dad and uncle are not having more heirs at this point. They are married to women long past reproduction age and divorce is unthinkable. ) so if the prince dies before he reproduces, has no children, or has…