I saw it. I remember that Corinne Bohrer provides some amazing full-frontal nudity, and the rest of the film was pretty funny.

Well if you weren't trying to discredit Dowd's point you still did so. "The Babadook" won't get any nominations because it isn't eligible.

"Jennifer Kent’s fledgling fright flick"

So a video that supposedly proves Carl Sagan said "billions and billions" actually proves no such thing.

Hope so.

"Also, the mm/dd/yyyy date system is stupid"

This episode had a language anachronism so obvious that even I noticed it. Mary and Tony use "making love" as a euphemism for sex. As anyone who's watched '30s and '40s romantic dramas (or "It's a Wonderful Life") knows, "making love" meant "romance, courting" at that time and would for a long time after.

That would be better, to be sure.

Maybe terrible pop music would help Julian Fellowes figure it out.

It took me a second to realize that by "Thomas" you meant Tom Branson and not Thomas the gay servant.

Just what the hell does Thomas want, anyway? Really, what?

Condoms of the day were in fact re-usable.

Bag away, indeed. Aristocracy sucks. Lord Grantham needs to be taken down about a million pegs.

Nicholas II, Alexandra, and all the aristocrats had it coming. The murders of Alexei and the daughters were crimes, yep, but the regime the Bolsheviks overthrew was quite brutal in itself and was responsible for a lot more deaths, seeing as how it was the Tsar that took Russia into World War I and thus bore huge…

Yeah, other than Mrs. Drewe being really really really stupid, that's inexplicable.

This is a lot of nonsense. The Confederacy wouldn't have any opportunity to mess with a railroad that ran west from Iowa.

Pairing Holmes and Watson is when I quit watching.

You know, that's a shitty love triangle for Kristen Stewart to pick from. There's Edward the emo asshole, and then there's the other guy, who's dumber than a box of rocks. Poor selection.

Lucy Liu sure was filling out that sweater dress. The weird thing is that I don't remember her being that curvy 15 years ago or so when she was in "Charlie's Angels" and the like.

No, the Car Song from Baseketball.