I bet a ton of people get fired for that blunder.

I heard a couple Oscar previews this weekend saying something along the line of ‘this would be Hoskins’ year, too bad Boseman died’. So it’s not *that* big a surprise, and if it weren’t for the stupid gambit of closing the show with Best Actor it wouldn’t get that much vitriol.

I’m really enjoying this so far–unlike Sharp Objects, The Outsider, and most of HBO’s other disappointing short series of late this one does let itself have a sense of humor. That makes a big difference. I also appreciate the worldbuilding and the plotting–they seem to be trying to tell a story rather than simply aim…

All the townie men look pretty much the same. I had no idea who shot Dylan until I read this.

I’ve never heard that rumor but now I think it’s the only thing that makes sense.

Yeah. I don’t want to begrudge people who exercise their creative muscles by writing fan fiction based on Star Wars, GoT, etc. But at some point fan fiction mutated into fan theories, and further mutated into the expectation that their theories would be acknowledged on the show, rather than remaining distinct. Add in…

Oh yeah. I’m not sure if it’s still a thing, but it was a prison reform idea in the ‘90s. As on the show, the idea was that older prisoners were less susceptible to violence, with some kind of hormonal (I think) artificial aging they could possibly be paroled earlier.

Personally I think it went to crap when they decided there were five other cylon models, all of whom were familiar character’s on the show. It’s an obvious ‘we’re out of ideas but need to squeeze out another season’ idea.I do think the finale did on OK job landing the plane, except for angel Starbuck–they’d clearly…

The idea of artificially aging prisoners is not something Oz made up. 

A reminder that the daughter from the Taken movies also has merely the slimmest of grasp on the mechanics of running:

There’s a lot of this in people who hate the ending of Battlestar Galactica as well; it too was a fairly spiritual show.

I think the Republican establishment still had enough control of the party, and Romney was a powerful enough figure, that they would have kept Trump in the whole for 2012. Indeed Romney’s loss is the key thing that opened the door for Trump; a plurality of Republican voters were simply not going to support an…

2024 will be the tell: if he runs again it’ll suggest he would have run again in 2016.  As always though at this point it’s difficult to tell if he’s really thinking of running again or just trying to maximize the grift.

Whoever at AVC came up with the idea of separate threads for book readers and non-book readers deserved a raise. 

‘Dany’s heel turn didn’t come particularly out of left field.’

I’m one who thinks the badness of the last two reasons is overstated–in brief I think it’s OK that after six seasons of worldbuilding, of putting pieces in place, the last two were mostly denouement. I also think the poor reception to the ending has more to do with how ubiquitous GoT was in its final years, and how see…

I always have time to talk about how underappreciated Oz is. And yes its pilot is incredible, both because it does establish the place and the character we’re going to spend time in and with (it even does a fantastic job establishing the physical layout of Oz) but it also establishes its unpredictability (this *has*…

Even though the showrunners seemed to almost immediately regret having Vic Mackey kill a cop in the first episode, the pilot of The Shield is about as good as pilots get.

for ‘decade older’ read ‘decade younger’ and this makes sense

In 2012? Probably not. The question is: does a loss in 2012 mean he doesn’t try again in 2016?