Utrect is pure dreck; Westphalia won't fail ya.

@Tristiac: You make a good point, but Bobby was, before Janice, pretty much a valet.

I'm with all the anti-Janice posters here. She has some sympathetic moments, and in some ways she's a victim of her circumstances, but I never got the sense that her intention with Bobby was to help him move beyond his grief and be there as a father (and aside from the admittedly creepy cake burial, was there any…

@Stumpy:

@Santos: Booth killed his mark, Powell wounded his target, but failed to kill him; Atzerodt just got drunk. At any rate, all six men are dead now.

Killing and mutilating their own mother is one thing, but it's disturbing that the teenagers explained their motivation with no apparent thought to how many late-arrival Sopranos fans they might be spoiling. What if one of the homicide detectives were waiting for the series to come out on DVD?

@Voice of Reason

On a tangential note, I'm amazed at how young Khandi Alexander looks. One of the first episodes I watched was the Season One finale and during the flashback scene in the hotel I thought, "Why is she sharing a bed with her dad?"

Except…she tempted him, successfully. I'm not arguing that she could have any man that she wanted (though, in the Sopranos universe, she practically did). I'm referencing the fact that she tempted Bobby, and he succumbed to her wiles.

Umm…I'm confused about the controversy over my use of the term "temptress." Janice deliberately set about seducing Bobby, going so far as to offer his dead wife's frozen ziti as a substitute for a biblical apple. How exactly is she not a temptress?

Appetites
"Isn't that guy a weird little shit?" the show almost seems to be asking, and that makes this whole storyline feel like a way to excuse us for feeling roughly the same about Ralphie as Tony does.

Sorry about all of grammatical errors in my previous post.

@GeoGreg: That TV show already exists. It's called Friends and it managed somehow to incorporate nostalgia right into its structure—for instance by showing young people who sometimes can't find work (a residual memory of the economic problems which did exist in the 90s but have been largely forgotten) but who still…

It just occurred to me that if we elect Gingrich in 2012 he'll abandon us within a few years for a younger country (like Slovenia, which, by then, will be in its early twenties, just right for Newt). Is it worth a couple of years of him in charge if it means we're finally rid of him forever?

@Balding Wookie—In Really?'s defense, having so many people express their ignorance of Stonewall is somewhat akin to reading a comment thread in which people brag about how they were unaware that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings. Stonewall is not a piece of historical esoterica—it's pretty much common…

Sooooo…I'm guessing my shtick won't play well here…

Late arrival, but the scene from Season One which made me love the show was when Julie and Matt get interrupted on a date because Landry loses control of Grandma Saracen, then Julie, after seeing Matt care for his grandmother, returns home, and tells her parents how great they are before heading to her room almost in…

I think I read or heard somewhere that with Homicide (which, in many ways, was an early version of The Wire, right down to entire scenes, story lines, and conversations being shared by both), the producers initially had the actors use Bawlmer accents, but test audiences found it too distracting and couldn't understand…

"Late-career calling…"
The guy was in Excalibur, Krull, Darkman, Rob Roy, and similar films in the early part of his career. I would suggest that a couple of notable roles, particularly in movies such as Husbands and Wives and, especially, Schindler's List, has led people to confuse an action hero for a highbrow…

Cart/Horse
I admire O'Neal's work generally, but he seems to have settled unto a hobbyhorse here, seeming to insist that there is something wrong with the American people for failing to appreciate this campaign when it is, in fact, the duty of the campaign to win over the American people, not vice versa. Advertisers…