No, I meant, if she watches the show, saw tonight's, whether she thinks Maher's joke was a big deal. I don't think she would. She's too sensible for that.

To be fair, I think most of his liberal viewers didn't even register this would get media attention. But it's good for media, another form capitalism can take. The AV Club, for all its pointing out terrible media and bullshit, is not immune. Though I wonder if they covered it because it was getting coverage elsewhere,…

Did you see the interview, Scientician? That context made it a spur-of-the-moment little joke. I don't think his audience even batted an eye, and Maher is famous for chiding them when they boo benign jokes.

If the Obamas watch the show, like Obama said during his interview with Maher, I wonder what MO's reaction was. Maybe it wasn't as outraged.

I meant that there's actually real stuff to get mobilized and outraged about. And come on—this is outrage media designed to get pageviews for profit. Maher isn't actually a racist.

I don't think most people here and everywhere else who criticize him actually even watch Bill Maher's show. His anti-Islam bias is real, but other charges leveled against him, like his misogyny or he means some of the stuff he clearly does insult comedy with, are not. But you gotta get outraged over something. This is…

This outrage is amusing given his final New Rule which blamed Democrats for cheering recent elections where they still lost to Republicans, but by not so much; and for being the political party that doesn't get outraged enough over Trump's real crimes when Republicans were carrying pitchforks for Hillary using a…

She's also interviewing Putin. Which is like Morning Joe interviewing Kellyanne Conway for all the legitimate info viewers will get. Capitalism! Because media must serve the dumb right-wing part of the country.

The White House should hire one of these kids to proofread all their outgoing communications.

In this environment where voters elect people who will screw them because they hate liberals (wrongly, since they like liberal policies but have cognitive dissonance), there is a double standard when a liberal entertainer does something offensive and a conservative one does. This is the country we're living in. In a…

America is united in progressive, humanist values across the land; The GOP isn't a radical anti-government only-rich-people's party, with wealthy right-wing businessmen funding their elections with dark money; Trump did not get 63 million votes, with a base that doesn't read fake news, doesn't loath liberals, and…

An electoral winning number of Americans did want this, Al, so maybe it's better if you made a documentary based on your book, The Assault on Reason, and mass mobilized for that problem.

How does this trailer look bad? It doesn't look anything. It's mostly one scene introducing the actors in their costumes. There is empirically no way you can tell what the rest of the movie is like from this teaser. You guys are preemptively curmudgeonly.

The face looks horror-movie scary. I'm not sure it's a wise idea to have people who have personalities that make them want to be cops be unemployed.

No, you're fine. In retrospect, I was being kind of an ass.

To make a character this annoyingly obtuse I don't think is supposed to be realistic or just to serve as an obstacle. I think he's symbolic of this season's larger theme of not believing what's in front of your nose, like the German state interrogator at the open of this season. Both are examples of how government can…

Without reading the review, "Follow the Money": Yep, this is a 2016 election allegory. (Emmit, the rich businessman venting about the "takers"; Sy breaking down because the "world is wrong".) The male chief, as annoying as he was not believing Gloria, and all the other men—"meat and potato guys"—are Trump supporters…

Sorry, I didn't mean to say that you didn't get the show. I get your wish to see more action, but for me the drug is the internal emotional action roiling the characters. But their actions scenes are very well wrought, suspenseful, and devastating, like the assassination a couple of episodes ago that served to propel…

Excuse me for telling you what the show is about. It is about action and suspense, as those things are part of the spy story, but it's, to me and to the creators, this family drama as spy drama, to quote Adams, and how of the ideology of the Cold War affects these characters. So it's a bit more than just action and…

But good doesn't automatically mean "action" or "big plot". People have different tastes, but this show isn't the one to get your action and plot fix, since the showrunners have done a marvelous job eschewing that and depicting what this show is about: the characters and their struggles.