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Judge Chamberlain Haller
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Secrets & Lies is one of those movies that has just stuck with me. I haven't seen it in at least a decade, but it's such a vivid, honest and humane piece of storytelling that I feel like I just watched it whenever I so much as see the title. 

"He's done! And he smells delicious!"

"He's done! And he smells delicious!"

TV execs don't think that young, hip audiences – the sweet spot for ad dollars – want to sit through a two-hour-long program these days. (Hell, that's what killed the show on Comedy Central when it was first canceled.) Yet, more than a decade later, here we are, still talking about it – and I'd be willing to bet that

TV execs don't think that young, hip audiences – the sweet spot for ad dollars – want to sit through a two-hour-long program these days. (Hell, that's what killed the show on Comedy Central when it was first canceled.) Yet, more than a decade later, here we are, still talking about it – and I'd be willing to bet that

"Good job, everybody. Excuse me, I gotta go…gotta date with a very special widow…"

"Good job, everybody. Excuse me, I gotta go…gotta date with a very special widow…"

"I just teleported here – it's impressive!"

"I just teleported here – it's impressive!"

"Dearest Mom,

"Dearest Mom,

Legacy of Blood was such an audience-insulting piece of crap that it deserved every arrow that was flung at it by CT. Especially that painfully stupid ending…uuuugggghhhhh….

Legacy of Blood was such an audience-insulting piece of crap that it deserved every arrow that was flung at it by CT. Especially that painfully stupid ending…uuuugggghhhhh….

"ANY FRUIT TO DECLARE?!"

"ANY FRUIT TO DECLARE?!"

Yeah, Pod People's pretty much at the top of the list of excellent intro's to the show.

Yeah, Pod People's pretty much at the top of the list of excellent intro's to the show.

The whole movie builds to Servo's scream of "ENNND!  ENNND!"

The whole movie builds to Servo's scream of "ENNND!  ENNND!"

"Where is it, your coffee?"