Though I do feel FX already has a Homeland analogue. So I dunno, but hey, series shot in Israel, colour me intrigued.

I'm Bobby Five!

Basically because the Madoka guy wrote the first and last episodes and then let a team of writers fuck about in the middle. It was not a sensible plan in retrospect.

It probably was the case. They intended to go ahead with this new show when they pulled Borgias, after all.

It's just not a good time for a papal drama, clearly.

Not happening. Let it go, Jerkface.

I think the case is it was such a mainstream hit for them (IIRC made more than any of their previous movies) that there was a bit of a backlash for some reason because it wasn't as great as their earlier movies.

Nobody's saying Intolerable Cruelty is the best Coen Brothers movie. But it's a funny movie, and not-as-amazing-as-some-of-the-greatest-films-of-the-last-few-decades is not something to be ashamed of.

…I've loved that movie for years and me neither. Well, I'm pretty dense, but still.

It's also very Douglas Adams-esque.

The Big Lebowski to No Country's Fargo, if you will.

I love that the horrible thing that happens to one of the divorced characters is he winds up playing a doctor on TV.

Intolerable Cruelty is one of the lightest Coen brothers films, but its basic nastiness still made it fun.

Seven seasons. And honestly the norm for this show was to quietly be one of the consistently best dramas of the 1990s; Sadler is just one of many excellent actors the show had in guest or recurring roles and not even one of the more notable ones.

I don't understand this reference and I won't respond to it.

IIRC he's said he did it because nobody pronounced el Fadil right.

Let's not go overboard here. DS9 may have added more complications and darker sides and the rest of it, but, as has been observed already, a super-secretive organization that has kept its very name unknown for centuries is not remotely plausible.

To give due credit here, 'the writers' are David Weddle and Bradley Thompson, who would be among the DS9 alumni who joined Ron Moore over on Battlestar Galactica (and are currently jobbing away on the unfortunately extremely mediocre Falling Skies.)

Absolutely. The more I watch TV and genre TV in particular the more the range of stories Trek could cover impresses me. Hell Deep Space Nine did a James Bond parody and travelled back in time to 1960s sci-fi TV.

Listen: Yuri Petrovitch has become unstuck from his account.