Well actually, if I were to summarize the reviews, I would say that they are saying that the show is both mindless and unentertaining and I would have to say I agree. Wanted to like it (I am always rooting for Dwayne Johnson) but this is definitely the episode where I call it quits.

I am not sure what "both" refers to here. What are the two things the show is doing?

If all any story has to tell is what anyone can glean from the most cursory perusal of the most superficial media coverage, then its obviously not telling us much. Setting aside whether the extraordinarily shallow glimpse at player's lives counts as "realistic" which you seem to think it does, realistic is not the…

You seem so certain so I just went back and viewed those scenes again and I really don't see what you mean. In the scene where Romero and Mobley and Mr. Robot are arguing, Elliot is clearly there. In fact, in the one case where it seems as if Mobley might possibly be speaking to Mr. Robot, "coincidentally" Elliot…

So IANAL but I read that as saying that there are some specific circumstances involving particular types of ongoing or future crimes where it is considered permissible to testify against a client and nothing we know about Diane's relationship with Bishop suggests that anything like this would even come into play. …

The whole premise of the Bishop thing seems wrong to me. Are lawyers really allowed to testify against their clients? And even if they can, it seems pretty unlikely that Diane is supposed to have some specific knowledge of criminal activity on Bishop's part.

I actually think what's interesting about Kingpin is that he isn't really a sociopath. He doesn't do what he does because he doesn't care about other human beings but based upon his own certitude that what he is doing is morally correct and for the best in the long term. I actually believe him when he says that he…

charlessage was actually joking by referencing Pulp Fiction - Marcellus Wallace's speech to Butch - although I would also argue that there is certainly an important element of pride at work here even if it isn't the only impulse.

" Is she poking holes in the condoms or something?"

On the contrary, douchebags are almost always nigh invincible. JJS is actually a pretty good example of the fact that douchebags, like cockroaches, are natural survivors.

Carol's utter disdain for these people is quite something to watch. She's all duh, of course we lie to them: "These people are children and children like stories"

The Sony thing is a good point. Amazingly, I had forgotten about that. There were a lot of inappropriate emails there and now that you mention it, I had the same reaction then. I could not believe that people wrote that sort of stuff in their email. A lot of it just seemed so astonishingly unprofessional to me.

I have to ask, do people really write this sort of stuff in their email, especially their corporate email? I have worked for a number of corporations - no law offices - but if I ever received an email that was that personal or nasty I would be shocked and appalled. And apparently there were dozens of these things. …

Hey now, there has already been a Crash the tv series. Amazingly, it starred Dennis Hopper. Never saw it myself but knew of its existence.

Well the "takeaway" is not some draconian punishment of some stupid kid. I agree. My point is that these are a lot of drugs. Thickness had POUNDS of heroin strapped to his body. Again, its not like they caught the kid with like an eighth of weed.

Yeah Gotta agree. My sense of morality is as fluid as anyone's when it comes to the characters on this show but really, Carl crossed a pretty bright line here. He deplorably took advantage of his weak minded nephew and then abandoned him without hesitation the moment it seemed as if there might be any…

I can't speak to what happens to minors in Chicago's justice system, although I suspect that, like everywhere else, its highly unpleasant. But that was not a small amount of drugs (far more than any dealer would realistically trust to someone like Carl for sure). There is no question that that was trafficking…

"played by Mamie Gummer a.k.a. the one who recurs on The Good Wife, not the one on The Newsroom"

I don't think the review says that at all. The point is that the death, particularly given the weak narrative that surrounds it, played more as an attempt to shock than to tell any kind of compelling story.

I agree with others that describing the scene as lesbian seems correct even if at least one of the women in it is not strictly a lesbian. But what interests me more is what you would call it. What do you think would be the proper descriptive terminology in this circumstance?