Having brought back one of my favorite shows of all time and another original one dominated by strong women of color including one trans woman actual played by a trans woman of color, Netflix is firmly in my good graces. Laverne Cox is a revelation, I hope she gets some awards not given out by GLAAD and a series…

They function like Anonymous, anyone can show up in brightly colored balaclavas and declare themselves Pussy Riot and they'll be Pussy Riot. That said, there are a number of original members who weren't arrested and still do most of the performances under this banner.

@avclub-7e72b5fe1ad8fd5b388a5260ba7c07fe:disqus Well thanks for the totally reductive response to my exhaustive explanation, asshole. But hey, good for you knowing a think tank buzzword. Enjoy the circle jerk while other people are out making tangible improvements to the world.

@avclub-41e23e24ee2670c4128cd7e5e5ee42ab:disqus Well put, though I'd add Bloomberg was definitely already harassing young black kids before Occupy showed up. Stop Stop and Frisk was one of the first affinity groups to join up with OWS, and they were forcing that to become an issue way back when no one else gave a…

There's several hundred people in an open space environment surrounding by deafening noise pollution and you're legally prohibited from using any amplification. Figure out a better way to communicate. Ready, set, go!

I don't know why anyone goes for a Lady GaGa when there's this perfectly awesome Peaches just lying around.

She also completely and needlessly shuts down the progression of the improv, even if it were Oprah. I love the economy of that joke.

@avclub-638c1a4f003b46aad4aa5cf3f424d215:disqus Apparently you and everyone else here doesn't remember how it ended. There was no "withering away," there was a violent eviction in the middle of night by NYPD, all infrastructure was thrown out (including the expansive library and free medical tent along with people's…

@avclub-c722c3a0141d8ccebbee6869f18478c9:disqus Ugh, my bad. I was kinda just going through the riff raff and tacked on my frustration to the last comment. I didn't mean to direct it at you. You're good peoples.

@avclub-7e72b5fe1ad8fd5b388a5260ba7c07fe:disqus You're assuming I'm interested (or Occupy in general was interested) in becoming a voting bloc to affect change. It explicitly wasn't from the outset, which is why I got involved to be honest. There was deliberate push back to calls trying to take the movement in that…

The third episode is really excellent. I wonder, is anyone else finding the supporting characters more interesting than the main? I don't really want to watch a show about a bougie white girl seeing the prison system as a 15-month tourist, getting by on her looks and innocent charm (what show does that remind me of?).…

"Hey, why don't you come over here where we're organizing direct debt relief by buying up defaulted loans for a fraction of the price and forgiving the debtor? Or over here where we're putting homeless people into foreclosed homes and shutting down foreclosure auctions kicking people out of their homes? Or over here…

"Werner's" theme song was so weirdly sweet and pleasing. I want him to sing/speak/narrate my life.

How did they manage to keep up the box office numbers without Rob Schneider's loyal fanbase showing up?!

No need to split @avclub-f8bb4011cafd41e692ed0a9f6c72dd31:disqus 's here.

@avclub-8cea7bd5a144b60f1159c77f6dc41779:disqus Yeah they're going to have a lot to live up to for the image I have of that character in my mind. Maybe that's why they've held off on bringing her on.

Well I mostly agree, it's not all going to come down to changing the business model. My hope is that as decentralization encourages more niche audiences so you get an environment that in stark contrast to the studio system and film festival circuit is more game for experimentation. That's really the biggest thing…

You're really proving my point more than you're disproving it with those examples. I'll give you Shane Carruth and Rian Johnson, though, the only two American filmmakers I'm genuinely excited to see what they'll do next.

American film is really in the shitter. And what's worse is there doesn't seem to be any encouraging next generation entering to shake loose the rut. Looking at all the great films of this century and the vast majority are by holdovers from the 90s indie boom keeping the torch going, but that's now 20 years ago,…

God, Shane Carruth totally baffles me, not that I don't get the appeal, but in that I literally don't know how to feel about his approach. I can't decide if his utter disregard for exposition is revolutionary or frustratingly abandoning a conceit that exists for a very good reason - one of those things where being too…