The Good Shepherd is a great, seriously underrated movie.

Whenever people complain about someone in a musical who can't sing (like Crowe in Les Miserables), I just shrug and ask "Why can't the character just be a terrible singer?"

"Stick with it. It gets really good in season 24."

Confession: If the Kinja conversion somehow ends up fixing the old Sam Waterston thread so that we can see the full names again, a part of me will think it's all been worth it.

Yeah. I’m fine with ESPN getting dragged over this. Liberals should probably join in on the pile on. It’s just so damn stupid.

I don't know. The internet wasn't exactly keeping quiet during that brief period when Dane Cook was one the most popular comics in the country.

I really hate that whole "Kill the Knight King, and the whole army dies" conceit that they introduced in the last episode. Giving themselves such an easy out after spending pretty much the entire series building up that storyline is pretty hacky.

The problem is that, for better or worse, the show has mostly been following the books style of time and distance mattering in prior seasons. They've had characters spend several episodes (sometimes entire seasons) just traveling from one location to another. So it's kind of weird for a show to make such an abrupt…

How many years after the show ends do you think it'll be before they'll be willing to admit that Martin never gave them an outline for the final two books and that they instead were just scrambling to get everything wrapped up as quickly as possible after season 5?

The Game Of Thrones leak was just a foreign cable outlet fucking up by accidentally uploading the show to their on demand service early, so not related to the leak.

This whole hack has been really strange, mostly because despite all the articles written about how a bunch of HBO shows have been "leaked", none of them have actually become available in any widespread manor. Apparently all this hacker has been doing is just sending emails to media outlets with links to cyberlocker…

You might not have a problem with the show existing, but the most vocal leaders of the backlash have been pretty clear about their stated goal being to get HBO to decide to not move forward with it.

Anti-art people never think they're being anti-art. They always rationalize it by saying something like "We're totally for the arts, but we just think certain harmful pieces of art shouldn't exist for the good of society."

Just checked IMDB. Apparently this is his first live-action film performance since Fierce Creatures in 1997.

Yeah, TV execs definitely need to start using a better catch-all word for "not a white guy", because using the word "diverse" to describe an individual just sounds weird.

Since this article's got me feeling bad for the guy, I think I'll note that I was watching A Beautiful Mind on cable recently and was pleasantly surprised by a very well-written scene (in an otherwise largely heavy-handed film) that I hadn't initially noticed.

When he was promoting Show Me A Hero, he said in some interview that the plan was for this run 3 seasons, with time jumps of about seven years between seasons so that it ends in the mid-80s.

Newman & Woodward were together for 50 years.

Not to mention that pretty much the entire plot of the season leaked online months ago, but most of the internet seems to be collectively pretending that never happened.

The rise of "boneless wings" is the surest sign of a society in decline.