Ah ok, i thought that meal was catered for some reason. Him doing business from the restaurant makes sense though.

Well he was incognito in Wide Whale's apartment, so maybe he did offscreen?

I think she hosts a financial news show on cable. Super stern/intimidating yet hot woman certainly fits the profile for those hosts in real life.

I hadn't thought of it quite that way, but he does seem to be interested in a sort of mentor role with Dean. Whether that's on the villain side of things or just in terms of his day job, i don't know.

They kind of look like they're in an SNL sketch about a lifetime movie.

I think Between the World and Me was up there when i read it, as was Being Mortal. There tend to be about a mix of empty celebrity things, stuff being sold with a pundit's name that ranges from actively harmful lies to actually having some historical value, and real things by experts. I tend to read a subsection of…

I didn't mean specifically the practice of whitewashing on the theory of audiences supposedly demanding it, although that's bullshit too obviously. I mean if you read the linked thing, to qualify for a tax credit they explicitly needed a bunch of Australians, which caused them to not even pick the white people they…

Well on the one hand, hypertension IS a serious problem. On the other hand, black people have higher rates of hypertension than other Americans in addition to their other problems (seriously).

FWIW The Wire is mostly not a police procedural past the first season. It's always still there to some degree, but from the beginning it has multiple perspectives, some of which don't really tie into the criminal investigations (none of which are ever resolved in one episode) and it broadens more over time.

Yeah i don't know how i would deal with that insecurity even though the worst case scenario is very unlikely. To bring it back to the episode's mentions of Between the World and Me, i had never really considered before that numbers aside, that threat is still always there, and you know it, and the people you interact…

There's an absolute chasm between demanding that police stop using unjustified and excessive force and saying they shouldn't be policing at all. There is no other field where you get to respond to criticism that you failed to follow procedure with "Well I won't do my job at all then, and we'll see how you like that!"…

It's amazing that people can bring that up and not seem to realize that victims being unable to trust cops might be a factor in that too <__<

I think his perspective is really understandable for someone in Washington. He thinks of racism as a tool the rich use exploit and foment to create an economic underclass for them to pillage, and that's true but it's not the whole story, and it's not any part of the story for the sort of boots-on-the-ground racists…

The point that it's hard to do well stands though. Normal Lear wasn't the only game in town making "very special episodes" and a lot of them were just awful, especially in the 80s when there was money in making risible anti-drug propaganda. It was surprising when he did it well then and it's surprising when someone…

Remember it's 2 hours long, so you might not be able to front-load for this without falling asleep or sobering up a lot by the end, or being completely out of your mind at the beginning.

Man that is upsetting. I get that movies are so expensive you need to take your money wherever you can get it, including taking bribes to make your actors a specific nationality…but they're also so big and expensive and beholden to their weakest link, you really should not take bribes to make casting decisions on…

I downvoted this comment to make the transition easier for you, hth.

All these things about passionate people who aren't actually super good at their respective sports put a weird level of emphasis on them participating in big competitions for some reason. There's this idea that what really matters is the love of the game, but also that what really really matters is getting into the…

So he was your country's little brother.

Like, to watch on the safety of my tv? Definitely Ilana. I would HATE her if she were real and i had to actually be around her though.