After going through Banshee again recently, I can't help but think this would be a show better suited to Cinemax (or Starz). I'm slightly worried that AMC is going to play it a little safe.

Has it ever been explicitly stated that Meeks is spying for the Germans? (as opposed to someone else)

I saw this at a film festival, and made the mistake of watching it as the last of three movies I saw in one day - the last two (including The Assassin) back-to-back, and fairly late at night.

It's a hard problem to address, because people see something that is (often legitimately) outrageous, and think that posting one "shaming" comment won't make much difference. But if thousands of people do that, it becomes something that's bigger than any individual person. But the only way it gets "solved" is if each…

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Has this section done a review of Simpson Tide yet? That's the only episode I really remember from this season.

I saw this at a recent film festival, and was really looking forward to it after seeing the excellent The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji the previous year. And how could you not look forward to a movie called Yakuza Apocalypse, about vampire gangsters?

So, you liked it, right? It's hard to tell.

You mistake "offence" with "people calling you out on bullshit". But that's ok - it's a common mistake.

It's funny. I've seen quite a few comments like yours on this thread, but relatively few examples of the thing you appear to be complaining about. So I guess you're winning?

Thank you for the clarification of "fanny pack", but I don't think it was necessary. I'd say most of us international readers have heard the term before.

It's a bit more than "gently" fictionalised. There's a smattering of real historical figures (Oppenheimer, Stimson, a couple of the famous physicists) and others who are based on real people (Frank Winter, Jim Meeks), but so far most of the happenings have not been particularly faithful to the historical record.

Yeah, this pretty much. Maybe he didn't know about the quarantine restrictions that we have here (although him allegedly hiding the dogs suggests that he did know), the correct response would have been to go "oh shit, I didn't know about this", and apologise. And then the issue would have gone away.

If it had not come right after Total Rickall, I probably would have given it higher than a B.

Are there any RTS games these days that are friendly to people who don't know how to play RTS games? I don't really know of any, but haven't been following the genre recently (largely for the reasons you describe).

With respect, the initial method described here is a bit like teaching someone to swim by giving them 10 minutes in the paddle pool, then immediately throwing them into a regional swim meet and seeing how they do.

For me, it's not about which characters I'd want to hang out with (none of them). It's about the characters being recognisable as human beings, that could conceivably make the decisions they do and still be able to function in society.

I disagree with the article about finding the characters relatable. Very quickly they reach absolutely cartoonish levels of stupidity and awfulness, and then go beyond that.