Yeah, this sounds pretty different from Sports Night to me in a few key considerations of tone - there, the show they were working on was super-important to the characters in a way common to all Sorkin workaholic characters, but it wasn't actually *successful.* It wasn't presented as groundbreaking and cosmically…

Yeah, this sounds pretty different from Sports Night to me in a few key considerations of tone - there, the show they were working on was super-important to the characters in a way common to all Sorkin workaholic characters, but it wasn't actually *successful.* It wasn't presented as groundbreaking and cosmically…

I don't know why, but making Douglas Mary Todd's former fiance is just incredibly funny to me. Maybe not as much as "War is two people with flags representing the North and South running at each other, yelling," though, which sounds like it would push this over the line into camp all on its own.

I don't know why, but making Douglas Mary Todd's former fiance is just incredibly funny to me. Maybe not as much as "War is two people with flags representing the North and South running at each other, yelling," though, which sounds like it would push this over the line into camp all on its own.

Yeah, likewise. I liked the second episode better just because the first one made me really uncomfortable. People could argue that it doesn't apply because she's a robot, but…the show can't use common stereotypes about black women with no subversion as punchlines and cast a black woman as the voice without inviting…

Yeah, likewise. I liked the second episode better just because the first one made me really uncomfortable. People could argue that it doesn't apply because she's a robot, but…the show can't use common stereotypes about black women with no subversion as punchlines and cast a black woman as the voice without inviting…

@Dr_John_Zoidberg:disqus Oh, I told myself I wouldn't get involved in this post, but…I think that you're arguing in good faith here, but I would just say that including the line "THIS is how you discuss sexism on the internet" gives the impression that you feel entitled to set the parameters of the discussion, and is…

@Dr_John_Zoidberg:disqus Oh, I told myself I wouldn't get involved in this post, but…I think that you're arguing in good faith here, but I would just say that including the line "THIS is how you discuss sexism on the internet" gives the impression that you feel entitled to set the parameters of the discussion, and is…

Hm, I agree with you that Parks tends to show Leslie as operating in a boy's club environment, and it's never quite struck me before how odd that is - in my experience, local and state government employees are overwhelmingly women. (I used to work at a non-profit - another female-oriented environment, though…

Hm, I agree with you that Parks tends to show Leslie as operating in a boy's club environment, and it's never quite struck me before how odd that is - in my experience, local and state government employees are overwhelmingly women. (I used to work at a non-profit - another female-oriented environment, though…

I love that movie dearly (it introduced me to glam rock, so I'll probably always be fond of it), but I have to agree that if you hate Haynes, it probably won't be something you enjoy. It's an incredibly Todd Haynes kind of movie.

I love that movie dearly (it introduced me to glam rock, so I'll probably always be fond of it), but I have to agree that if you hate Haynes, it probably won't be something you enjoy. It's an incredibly Todd Haynes kind of movie.

The article's of course funny, but something about the transition from the text to the video embed's bikini girl just makes the whole thing even better.

The article's of course funny, but something about the transition from the text to the video embed's bikini girl just makes the whole thing even better.

Another Bush-Bluth connection: Gob's name (formed from George Oscar Bluth) is formed the same was as Jeb's (from John Ellis Bush). (This is maybe one of those things everyone else knows already but I'd never known Jeb had a name that wasn't, well, Jeb, so *I* was surprised to learn this.)

Another Bush-Bluth connection: Gob's name (formed from George Oscar Bluth) is formed the same was as Jeb's (from John Ellis Bush). (This is maybe one of those things everyone else knows already but I'd never known Jeb had a name that wasn't, well, Jeb, so *I* was surprised to learn this.)

I agree. For me personally, I don't like knowing what's going to happen in a comedy - surprise affects how funny I find something, generally - but if I know the plot outline for a drama it doesn't bother me because it's as much about execution and the acting as anything. (Of course, I'm a person who flips to the last…

I agree. For me personally, I don't like knowing what's going to happen in a comedy - surprise affects how funny I find something, generally - but if I know the plot outline for a drama it doesn't bother me because it's as much about execution and the acting as anything. (Of course, I'm a person who flips to the last…

Robert Sean Leonard had a funny anecdote about shooting that movie that I saw in an interview with him once. "We saw Mamma Mia together. One of the more surreal experiences in my life, watching the Abba musical with Burt Reynolds. We were in Toronto. It hadn't been to Broadway yet. It was this odd Canadian musical…

Robert Sean Leonard had a funny anecdote about shooting that movie that I saw in an interview with him once. "We saw Mamma Mia together. One of the more surreal experiences in my life, watching the Abba musical with Burt Reynolds. We were in Toronto. It hadn't been to Broadway yet. It was this odd Canadian musical…