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What with this douche taking a fall, and the "Affluenza" Kid going on the run, the only thing we need for the schadenfreude hat trick is for Trump to fall down an elevator shaft.

It's not just the movies. It's her. She hasn't shown much willingness to up her acting game, work on her flat, affectless voice, or devote any effort to the part of movies that doesn't involve punching someone.

I gather the relatively light workload here isn't going to keep Margo off of the Americans. It better not.

My judgment of Canning derives from the fact that I used to work for someone like him. This guy was disabled, but unlike the TV-movies I had seen for years, he was not a nice, noble person. He was cheap, selfish, and misogynistic. And if he was ever called on a mistake at work, he would invoke his disability to get…

Luca has been thinly drawn because they have made the decision to keep her that way. She gets a lot of face time, but has had little in the way of a showcase so far.

This episode was a mess. There was very little to get invested in. Cary and Diane at war with the vast sea of vanilla that is the associates, to do the bidding for wingnut Peter Gallagher? I can't care. Lucca and Alicia representing someone who, although he is not technically a criminal, is vile nonetheless? Ahh, it…

Wait… Is SyFy pre-empting the WWE for this stuff?

Lucy's dad beating her was the real turning point for her. She had actually bought into her father's horshit about Christian foregiveness and all that, and when she confesses her sins to him, she was not expecting the physical and emotional beatdown he gave her.

I realize it's probably not fair to the actor who plays Gallinger, but I find myself gritting my teeth during the behind-the-scenes segments, where he affably describes some vile thing or other that Gallinger has done in the previous episode.

Wow. I was wrung out after this episode. Abandon hope, all ye who enter the Knick, folks.

I agree that these characters can be salvageable. Who didn't roll their eyes the first time they saw Cisco's wisecracking nerd character on the Flash. But, over the course of the first season, the writers and actor played up Cisco's goofiness and charm, until he is one of the main assets of the cast.

Since it's my understanding that the origination of the term, "motel," was meant to signify "motor hotel," naming something a Motor Motel seems pretty redundant. Like some commenters' names.

Ryan Phillipe is puhing forty. He's too old. And too wrong.

Which seasons of Dexter was he running, though? Nothing after season 4, I hope.

I'm conflicted about Lucy's change this year. She has seen the men of the Knick commit a number of transgressions, and face little in the way of consequences. But she confesses to her father, and ends up beaten and shunned.

I've always found Barrow a little less vile than Gallinger, because he's such an obvious striving failure, and his goals are so totally unrealistic. But this season, he's closing the distance fast. The idea that he could just discard his wife and kids, and drop them in some shitty dive while he disappears whith his…

I thought, at some point last season, that Gallinger might recognize that the biblical suffering that was visited upon him and his wife, was due to his racism and pettiness.No such luck there. And really, adding adultery, poisoning and forced sterilization to his crimes, we should expect things to get even worse for…

I'd be more willing to purchase more modest books, like, say, Squirrel-Girl, if they weren't priced at the edge-of-my-price-point $3.99. Marvel's really screwing themselves there. Is Ms. Marvel still $2.99?

Yeah, about that. How is Daredevil under Soule? I wasn't wild about some of Waid's last moves (the 3-piece red suit? no). But the changes Soule was making (the frequently misguided DD as super-mentor, working for the NYC DA's office) seemed kind of wrong-headed to me. What's up?