And use her up quckly before she starts to ask questions?

Judging by his innate bias(now that it's racist to say racism) in choosing a black man do do the troubling violent abduction part of the work , a sprinkling of Asians for A B and the first generation,and no noticable/practicing gay people to populate paradise,and nobody with an accent other than nightly news american,…

Except who in 2014 believes what they "see" on reality tv?

Yes, the creators really set him up as the villain.

So the future is designed by a straight up twentieth century stereotyper who chooses a noticeable number of Asians, 90+% white people & no apparent Puerto Rican, Haitian, Salvadorean or Mexican Americans fro 21st centur U/S. which has so many of first, second & third generation ethnicities & accents to choose from?…

That's why it's so dumb—-excellent production values & cast. It should have/could have been a send-up,

And arrogant enough to be sure he does understand it.

Wouldn't it have been great if he'd had the influence to get a Muslim-American host, since one of his biggest contributions has been consistent sanity in the face of anti-Muslim hysteria from 9/11 to last night?

I just started watching it because he had several guests who weren't overexposed elsewhere/pushing a blockbuster movie & he was deadpan twinkle in the eye hysterical in his "news analysis & other bits. He also seemed as genuinely listening as a host could be & had dropped the lame riff about Fred's lies that was only…

Yes, he goes for the cheapest laugh and/or the personal/stereotypical role of each panel member or makes it all about him— a set-up for his points/punchlines.

It wasn't fun to watch for me as camp or corn or mystery or even on a purely visual level. And I even watched "Dig" which was illogical, predictable, grossly violent & heavy-handed but did have wonderful unusual scenery, a red heifer, archeology & less artsy but more effective directing. With "Secrets & Lies" I…

Yes, not only that's what he does, flip his angst feelings of guilt & isolation into memes of family, connection , safety and bliss to cell harmful products like cigarettes & sugar water
but also because Peggy was right when she said Stan was always right, and Stan knew Don would come back .

Didn't they rule out all of that by showing it was a Secret Service(or at least rogue faction of the Secret Service) project? All that remains would be to show what the experiment is & how it's connected to the 621deaths Matt Dillon's character feels responsible for not preventing.

Wasn't the first episode of that gripping, intriguing & unpredictable compared to this?

Yes, it was shocking to me to see so many actors I love stuck in tropes & cliches that verged on typecasting. Matt Dillon in "Sunlight Jr." with Naomi Watts got to use his leading man/stoic baseline to play a complicated "loser" rather than a stereotyped upper middle class arrogant law enforcement officer. Melissa…

Yes!

So so true! And so sad: what you went through with your father. Having lived through knowing folks who accomplished so much relapsing AFTER struggling through situations that would be incredibly stressful for someone without a drug of choice to get through, I wondered if the relief after the crisis is when it all…

Best review ever! Couldn't even find it on the front page tho, had to search for it. AV Club, this piece deserves repackaging as a feature so everyone can see it.

What's weird tho is that they shot the bar scene with Matthew Goode in a pretty similar herky jerky back & forth way. It din't work either. Don't know if that was a "coverup" but it sure wasn't well-directed. Talking heads at their worst! Btw, the director was Robert KIng!

There's enough bad news on any given day that it's easy to overload. Especially in the injustice system, on every level. And of course so many people working to improve things. Sometimes it helps to focus on an issue you can effect internationally or regionally & you miss what's in your own backyard. Sometimes you are…