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The golden age of sleaze
Ah the 70s, when people realized that for sleaze to be, well, sleazy, it had to be dirty (well, plus that's all they knew how to do or could afford). Forget toned abs and pearly teeth, it was ugly, dirty and sweaty. I guess we always knew the future would be kinda sterile, but it's still a

It's pronounced 'coe-venn'.

This sounds very boring. Pretty, sure.

Chased gets spaced, or Roslin'd if you will.

Didn't both these shows just hemorrhage viewers after the pilot? Sure, when you hype something to the moon lots of people will come for the hype than leave as they don't like the product. But if you can't keep viewers, that means for the show to survive there has to be a huge audience out there that you didn't reach

Didn't Limbaugh do a voice on the Star Wars Family Guy shows? My continual belief is that most media personalities know half of what they say is bullshit and look at their fans with the same measured contempt that athletes, musicians and movie stars do. They're more like each other than any of them are like their fans

I dunno; if your whole family was raped by Jeff Goldblum, you'd never want for stories to tell at parties.

Like most directors, she's really average-looking. And compared to any random starlet she might be directing in some swank hotel room, she's very plain. But honestly, if you're looking for sexiness in a director (at least those who weren't actors first, and yes, Bigelow is disturbingly masculine), you're really

Sofia Coppola needs to do a trashy movie
With dirty, ugly, poor, desperate people slowly succumbing to the cruel, brutal fates no one could possibly deserve. I know "direct what you know", but there just don't seem to be too many diamonds in her mine, glittery as it is. Maybe she could get her cousin for some

I thought angels were the new abstinence vampires?
It's getting really hard to keep up without doing any work or paying any real attention.

Yeah, but imagine those shows with a fraction of the budget. For all the props Breaking Bad gets, if you listen to the commentaries, Gilligan is always going on about budget issues and things he wished he could afford to do - Heroes at 1/5 the budget would be very different show.

So what audience was there supposed to be for this
Between the con-men (which can so easily seem less like compelling anti-heroes than just predatory scum), the bigamy, the name (I kept thinking it was based off that movie that it wasn't) and (from the AV Club reviews) the general sleaziness and unlikeability of the

But Pardon My Zinger was real, right?

The trick is to realize that when you find out that that actress is gay, your chance of sleeping with her just went from 0% to 0%.

I know nothing about fashion
But I know what women look awful in, and that hat in the last clip - she not only looks like a man, but a really, really ugly one. Whereas otherwise she's pleasant in that co-worker-whose-name-you're-80%-sure-of way.

The Problem with Superman is that he's so super now it gets hard to have any kind of believable conflict he can't resolve in two minutes. The kryptonite think is the most hackneyed of cliches (as well as proof comic book writes haven't the vaguest since of how big space really is), and so finding a legitimate action

Lots of Zuckers?
Is he related to those guys who made Airplane and then went way right-wing and did American Carol?

He seems to get it more than his fans probably do
I mean, he can laugh at someone calling his film to be worse than a piece of shit. No fanboi would ever do that.

So, it's like Blair Witch, only with more neon and, somehow, even more annoying characters and contrivance? IT WILL CHANGE MY LIFE!!!!

This is America, not some third-world hellhole. You don't pay people for performance, talent, loyalty or results - you pay them for fame! Why do you think failed CEOs always get another 7-figure job? Or why first-round draft picks always get 17 chances to start? Or why horrible actors have infinite second chances?