Yeah, these things are superfluous, and meaningless, now that Trump has proven that you can repeatedly lie about the facts and still people won't care. I read a piece on The Nation today that said political scientists have shown that voters view voting like a habit, and vote for the same party, regardless of…

Sounds pretty good. Alright, go to town.

It's fine; I was hoping the AV Club would live blog this; they could use the justification that one of the candidates is a TV entertainer and uses that label to get out of things that would be disqualifying for a public servant.

Then go eat a sandwich! What are you having?

I thought both moderators did well, actually.

Hey, grilled cheese sandwiches are awesome. In this analogy, Trump isn't even a sandwich, because sandwiches are heavenly. He's more like you drinking the acid in those email cleaners.

I don't disagree with you; I just like the running debate outside of the action, though of course it could lead to plot developments. (I'm taking my time watching the show.)

It's horribly relatable—being the cheated spouse—and would make her seem more genuine so as to counteract that false rep.

True, it could be a bad idea, but I wanted an Obama-on-Rev.-Wright speech from her about her reputation, and now it could be about her status as the victim of an unfaithful husband. I want her to break free of any shackles that have been put upon her and that she put on herself, if that makes sense. But, you may be…

There was a good op-ed in today's LA Times by Virginia Heffernan advocating that Clinton should talk about her husband's infidelities, doing so as a source of heroic strength, to publicly talk about what millions of American privately grieve over, and that there is no reason then for self-blame by the cheated-upon…

It was always thus, but especially since Friday, tonight's debate is Clinton vs. the Dragon, or the Fiend, or the Beast. Being a woman, and the first one to potentially become president, she is particularly apt to slay this asshole. And even her wariness at expressing her true emotional self is literary: she must do…

Okay, that explains it. He was shot in the face by a shotgun in JJ, and received a lot of bullets, and not just from handguns, here. I was thinking he got a lot of big and small bullets in him.

Good episode as usual so far, though I was disappointed in the overdone "dirty cop" trope; but, 1) it's a big part of shows like this, and 2) the racial aspects of it were new. And at least the character has a better reason to exist than the, in my opinion, bad urban noir cop banter he uses with Knight.

I didn't know Djawadi scored that show. He's fantastic. As is Abel Korzeniowski, of the late, great Penny Dreadful, which I'm in the middle of the second season of. But definitely, POI is on my list of great shows I need to see because I missed them the first time. So Nolan straight up lied to get the show on the air?…

Wow. That is teaching the kid the right lessons.

I found it a bland procedural, and that's why I stopped watching—a mistake in retrospect. Westworld, on the other hand, grabbed me quickly. The world building is interesting enough that I don't need the plot to advance right away; I don't care about what we call "plot" as much as others: a show that has well-written…

I liked TV critic Dan Fienberg's tweet after the Trump tape came out: "There's a distinct possibility that this Sunday's debate will be the worst two hours in TV history. And I'm *including* "Wicked City.""
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Like any show, it's just starting out, finding its voice and building its world. Nolan did Person of Interest which started off as a bland procedural before becoming great (I hear). They have a surfeit of plots to choose from but the main one appears to be an examination of the human condition using AI,who will no…

An awful and sad thing for girls to learn.

What I was struck by (besides what Trump said) was the actress who greeted them and escorted them on set. Bush makes a crack about who she wants to date and she handles that question like a pro; you can assume she's been treated many time before that way and has developed responses that aren't yelling at them.