Pornstache was also excessive but from watching him in The Wire we know it's not Pablo Schreiber's acting skills, it's the writing and direction.

I'm genuinely surprised that anyone could write a recap of this episode without commenting more on its appalling treatment of a transsexual character, even just in your stray observations. I wanted to give this show leeway last week when they made a passing reference to a tranny, it could just have been a way of…

That theme works both ways though. Most Americans wouldn't expect their government to privilege strategy over human rights etc yet they do. The irony is that by now everyone has deconstructed the Soviet Union as a deluded utopia but people still believe this shit about the United States. People still believe that the…

The whole Gregory plot point does a great job illustrating the way the KGB would have an easy time exploiting American racism. POC are relatively invisible (if he wasn't involved in other organizing that would attract FBI attention) and they have every reason to hate the United States.

Michonne has reached the point of no return. They've written her and Andrea so poorly. Though perhaps the arrival of another black woman means that she's not long for this show.