Not trying to be a snarky shit. The way I see it, everyone would rally around the "we were attacked" mantra and there'd be an outpour of support for the victims, the attacked organization and, by proxy, the government. Of course, this goodwill would evaporate in a couple of weeks when the questions you mention DO…

If I read that correctly, the CIA is going through a spell of bad publicity and is risking being closed AFTER being bombed, right? Right? There might an explanation for how that happened - maybe even a sensible one-, but after the clusterfuck of the final episodes of the second season, I am not so sure.

I wonder how many of the girls in that "Pumps in a Bump" video have children of their own and hope they never, ever find out about it and that they appeared in it. Hello there, Youtube….

WTF deserves its accolades for Maron's interviewing skills. The man made Lisa Lampanelli actually pleasant to listen to, for Christ's sake. It also taught me Chris Rock's comedy genius doesn't extend to his political opinion-making process, which counts for something.

not ted danson: Nothing about the first two seasons is eminently recommendable - think X-Files with really silly stuff like sex aliens and badly rendered CGI space whales and cursing and lots of same-sex innuendo. But I made my way through them and having endured it made CoE that much better by comparison.

The first time I watched it I dismissed it as too titillating. It felt as if they'd tailored the situation just to make the British government look bad. Then I re-watched it and remembered, they'd already tried to negotiate with the aliens. They still were capitulating, but at least tried to put more rational terms…

Not one episode, but two: "Knight in White Satin" and "Funhouse" from The Sopranos. The way the show wrapped up Richie Aprile's storyline (both outrageously and hilariously), how Tony dealt with that poor storeowner (his final scene with him is the way I always imagine Tony: ruthless, amoral, and unable to help…