Many people have worse beards right now.

I do not agree, and I take offense at that. I don't know how my comments could be "patronizing" and I do still believe it skirts the line of rape. Elizabeth didn't say "No! Stop it!" but just look at face in that scene - she is clearly afraid and very upset. She may have wanted something, but THAT certainly wasn't it.…

This is covered very well in the book version of "And the Band Plays On" - Even if it wasn't being called AIDS yet, by March of 1982 the U.S. medical establishment were very well aware that something was causing otherwise healthy gay men to become gravely ill, and there were known fatalities as far back as 1980. The…

Well, as the review mentioned, It was *technically* consensual, but it WAS violent and Elizabeth was very definitely frightened by it to the point that she ended up in crying in a fetal position. And Elizabeth is not a person who is cowed so easily. So even if it wasn't to the letter of the law rape, it was still a…

"[W]hen Philip goes to the gay club to reveal the truth about himself
(which Laric greets with mild amusement), it suggests he’s going to
become a much bigger part of the season…"

I quit watching this show this season when it finally occurred to me what was really important to the show creators: this is not really a show about a zombie apocalypse. It's a show about glorifying gun violence. Every episode basically boils down to scenes of people taking aim and blasting away at moving humanoid…

Um…That basically describes EVERY season of this show.

Maggie doing a "Laugh-In" style go-go dance always cracks me up.

On the issue of bringing back the Macra - my guess is that it was supposed to be misdirection. Even by this, only the third new series, the show was following a fairly obvious pattern - a story set in the past with a famous historical figure, a Dalek story, and the return of some classic Who villain. Series one…

It probably wasn't the first time that the Jennings saw "Raiders of the
Lost Ark." My friends & I went to see that movie about a dozen times
in the theater. This is still a little early in the 80s for VCRs to
have been normal household appliances, and movies (especially
era-defining blockbusters like 'Raiders') still…

When the other, doomed couple first came onto the scene, i thought "Aha, somehow late into this season, Stan Beeman and the FBI will close in on the mysterious man & woman couple they were pursuing last year, coming close to nabbing Phil & Elizabeth, but get them instead." I was disappointed that the show would use…

1. We must be watching different shows then, because last I saw - Maggie was a big sobbing mess on the bus.

Okay, I have to bitch about it because nobody else is; but ever since the mid-season premiere I have watched this show and one single question has nagged me - in all the time they were holed up in the prison, nobody ever thought to decide on a rendezvous point in case the prison got stormed?

Remember the controversy when the Christian right accused Spongebob of being secret 'pro-gay lifestyle' propaganda?

The first Dirk Gently novel was in part a reworking of Doug Adams" infamously aborted DW serial "Shada" (partially filmed, but shut down due to a strike at the BBC.) In that story, the 4th Doctor and Romans visit an elderly Cambridge professor. The villain of the story later kidnaps Romans and steals the Doctor's…

I am making a prediction now that this season of AHS will end with Fiona gathering all the surviving / resurrected coven members in the gleaming white parlor and, in 80s soap style, bellowing "Which one of you bitches is the new Supreme???"

Why wasn't this inventory posted a month ago since so many of the revelations take place at Thanksgiving, not Christmas.

I don't understand why the formerly bad boy, alcoholic, trust fund brat that Daniel used to be would have wanted to be with someone so (as Victoria put it) "off-the-rack" as Sarah. Wouldn't he have had his pick of super-models (or even aspiring supermodels) to be carousing with? Well, at any rate I am predicting…

Dodo, Polly, Samantha…alas the woeful attempts of the then-Who producers to inject some "hep youth-culture relevance" into the show. It tends to come off like DC comics teen characters using "groovy with-it" slang to show how cool they were, and failing miserably. In long-view, classic Who does have a tendency to…

Interesting. I was half-inclined to start a new wack-a-doodle "Shining" theory that the movie was really Kubrick's homage to DW. Consider the "evidence":
1. The interior layout of the Overlook Hotel is famously impossible to diagram. In fact, based on the narrow proximity of the doors in the hallway, room 237, the…