The best metaphor for this film is that Charlie is the film itself and critics/fans are India and her mother. He's dazzling yet vacant and people willfully overlook his obvious issues in hopes that there's some depth there and that he'll fulfill their own hope of something more. And even if you don't give yourself…

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While I agree with some of this article, two differing opinions really stand out. I thought episode 8 was by far the worst of the series and seemed like a filler episode. I'd argue that it gives us zero insight to Underwood, it just gives us a couple of facts that don't really matter much at all in the grand…

Or, when you find out one of your officers is stationed with a cult member, call that officer and not the guys hanging outside. Especially when one of those guys is pretty much certain to show up five minutes too late to stop anything.

I'm not sure which was better:
"So, you asked your husband for a divorce, he stabbed you, and you didn't get divorced. Reminds me of my sister's crappy marriage! Nothing to see here." Or three flashbacks to show us Kevin Bacon NOT discovering something. Riveting. So glad they spent time on that rather than making the…

I guess I'm in the minority but I think the obvious pun for the pilot was: A-meh-ricans.
The whole show was very on the nose and incredibly convenient: the defector is the rapist, the new next door neighbor is the Fed, etc. 
I also was kind of bugged by the defector not yelling when he heard someone else in the room (he…

Good call. That was probably another song that it called me back to.

Topic for discussion: What does the diminishing returns of the Parker franchise (Lee Marvin's Point Blank to Mel Gibson's Payback to Jason Statham's Parker) say about Hollywood?

That's close. (I was thinking "Wig in a Box") Just can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's just a mixture of tunes clogged in my head.

Does the "Every day when I wake up, I gotta make up" line remind people of another song? I swear I've heard something very similar but I can't figure it out.