now I know the word agita. There are never too many words for things like that.

I’m not normally down to take shots at the site’s writers but what the fuck was that parenthetical, Sam? Schrader deserves compensation. And he has every right to critique this decision. Weird take to not side with the original artist.

He’s making fun of Ted Seranos’ quote about Gervais and Chapelle

Looks like I can add this to my collection of overly ambitious, self-defeatingly complicated series I loved. I'll set it right next to Carnivale.

I’m always amazed when talking to some of my friends about a show or movie and they would complain about something “not making sense” and I would point out a plot point that explained it all and then they’d get annoyed and say something like, “well I guess I missed that part”

This is America. You gotta let him play. 

I haven’t seen AV covering We Own This City, but it’s good. It feels like The Wire season 6, with a surprising amount of The Wire cast back in different roles, like Marlo (Jamie Hector) as a cop.

I quite distinctly remember at the time how ridiculously outraged and offended so many people were that TV shows actually now expected them to watch every episode and pay a decent amount of attention. That kind of thing just wasn’t what people watched television for. Of course, it also helped that this was around the…

Yes.

The Scandal woman spells it Smyth.

Scandal was Smyth

“That was really extremely, extremely fucked up". Yeah, he doesn't know what fucked up means. First World Problems are hilarious to me.

Meanwhile, around that time, in Colombia (where I am from), a neighbor was getting gunned down in front of me and my siblings for getting involved with a gangsters’ wife. I still have nightmares about that day. And no, it wasn't the first time somebody was shot nearby, but the first time I saw it from such a short…

I’ve had to explain to friends elsewhere around the globe what spelling bees even are. They don’t really exist outside of English-speaking countries, because other languages have orthographies that make sense, whereas the English language’s fucked up history led to a uniquely fucked up orthography.

How come no one’s suggested Greg Kihn?

I don’t know, they did pretty well out of the gate. Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, Dickinson - these were all worth watching pretty much from the get-go. Their record has been spottier on the movies side of the ledger, but the television shows have generally been interesting, original, and high-quality. Whoever’s making…

 Apple TV is absolutely killing it right now.

Can we stop comparing this show to John Le Carre now? I see this in every review, and every time I read it, my first thought is that writer hasn’t actually seen the show.

Good god, what a pompous ratbag

great fuckin show