Maybe this is that new Boards of Canada record the kids were talking about?

I wasn't aware of the "gay caste system" until my [gay] friend schooled me on the hierarchy of hate.

downright perfect in Cooler.  I'd agree that Hollywood is a sad sad place for even the loveliest most talented of midde age + women.

She was the absolute worst part of every season she was in

hooray fellow Vauxhaul fan!

I sincerely hope the great Thomas Hardy gets some love tomorrow, preferably by way of Michael Winterbottom

I would happily lose both of my legs…

That's the nice thing about someone like Julien who sincerely wants to be the change in the world we would like to see.  He hasn't given up over the futility of change.  Nothing alters the fact that "the way it goes/is" heavily involves dealing with, at best, good people on the worst day of their life, and at worst,…

It's funny too, because at first, there were moments in Season 1 where I thought "hoo boy, is this just an exercise in total bro extremism?"  The show absolutely dips its toes in that water, but it does it all so right when it dives right in.  No show, certainly not on network television, is ever going to have those…

That's the beautiful ambiguity.  The shooting was justified in that exact moment, but almost everything that preceded it was upsetting and/or avoidable

I remember eating breakfast at a diner the next morning, completely inconsolable.  No show has ever wrung my heart like a towel the way the Shield has

somebody upload a version with Scooby Doo bongos please.

This is certainly my wife's biggest beef with her favorite show.  She finds him a repellent bulldog. Oh, we could debate who would win a fight between a werewolf and a vampire, but dropping drawers for Vic? That's absurd.

I think the only thing you can watch after that, eventually, is the entire series all over again, now with new eyes.  Seriously.

I set aside a whole night to those final few hours.  Sometimes I still think I'm recovering from it

It must be wonderful having a boss at FX who not only championed the show but challenged them to do something greater.   Consequences I've seen on the show, but it never occurred to me that there was no need to add anything more to the stew, and look at the mileage we got out of it!

It's a good title and metaphor, even if it doesn't encompass the series.  I even liked how the show's intro Shield-graphic could be read somewhere between an implied patchwork mosaic that is the lives and the city (the aggro-rock hip-hop salsa music reinforces that), or the fractures and shattering it foreshadows

I see the article's photo above and hear Vic yelling "It's a wonderful restaurant!"

Even from what we've seen thus far, Shane and sex go to questionable places.  I absolutely think he could've gone through with it, even felt awful about it, but I'd like to hope that his "darlin" wink was relief that he didn't have to go through with it. 

I won't say anything, but whether you've seen every episode of the series, or just this episode, Goggins breaks my heart with that moment.  Friendship