Scripture's Scripture, so diversity of opinion is inevitable (and probably desirable, until it leads to ugliness), but I'd argue that the episode of the Woman Taken In Adultery argues otherwise: Jesus tells her "Go forth, and sin no more," which pretty much indicates that what she was doing was a sin—not one deserving…

It's been awhile since I've read that sequence, so I'll defer to you on this. (Well, and I'll go back and read the damn thing.)

We may be falling afoul of terminology. Being a good person and being an asshole are not irreconcilable things. On the contrary—we wouldn't have heroes if they were. Being a good person means trying—and you're right, the characters that you list here do try—and not necessarily succeeding. Being an asshole means, well,…

Prologue Jesus isn't an asshole? Please. He's a hypocritical liar! What with the whole "adultery is bad" message he's been spreading, and the "no, guys, I'm just miracle-ing this woman's disease"—look, I'll grant you that as human failings go, those aren't sublimely horrible, but weighed against, let's say, the…

Thaddeus. And yes, it was.

Fieri is the embodiment of Oversell. Everything about him—his appearance, his voice, his relentless enthusiasm—it's all designed to prompt you to agree before you reflect—to act before you think. He's the kind of guy who insists, "Isn't this AWESOME—look at how AWESOME I am and if I'M saying this is AWESOME think how…

Stay tuned for his explosive followups, "The Hunger Games Novels Are Quite Derivative" and "Twilight Wasn't Very Good At All."

Just to confirm the opinion of the reviewer:

Very start of the movie—or maybe it's just in the novel—he gets himself arrested/handcuffed on purpose.

I took the Pickle violence to be something like what Chigurh pulls in No Country for Old Men, when he deliberately incapacitates himself in order to see whether or not he can get out of a situation while self-limited. The violence that results is over-the-top because it's the violence of a liberated monster. So with…

Uh oh. A person whose opinion I respect has an opinion contrary to mine—I loved the episode.

Thank God they hired Gary Busey as line producer to bring some much needed stability to the production.

W/R/T Jesse's self-righteousness and semi-shittiness towards the Saint in the last minutes of the episode, I'd offer that what we're seeing is the effect of losing part of his soul. Cooper's performance post-extraction wasn't just sluggish, but darker, meaner, and that last look in the mirror suggests (this is the…

This is true. I think the show tried—and, judging by something close to a consensus here, failed—to do was to make Reggie a kind of disposably annoying person: a couch surfer perpetually self-amused because of pot and the smugness that comes from pot-enabled indifference—the sort of person that's always there when you…

Oh, please. You probably feel sorry for Hitler.

You always gotta remember: John Wayne isn't a unity, he's a duality: there's the John Wayne from Stagecoach and Rio Bravo, and there's the John Wayne from Red River and The Searchers. Jesse Custer tries to be the one, and mostly succeeds, but there's a border within him, and when it's crossed, he becomes the other.…

The first time he appeared, I said, "Oh, it's a thinly fictionalized Eddy Nash." Then realized that what I really thought was "Oh, he reminds me of Molina in Boogie Nights." I mean, I may still be right, but only indirectly.

Nope. Actors, Priests, and Lawyers all go to Hell immediately. Also Pharmaceutical Reps. It's all in the version of the Bible I carry around in my head so I don't have to bother with all the contradictory stuff in the original.

Hell being Hell, we always have to leave open the possibility that Eugene's projector didn't break down, and everything we're seeing is just an extended VR experience intended to reveal his sins/flaws (not that "turned on Hitler even though he was nice to you" is exactly a flaw…)

Ben is the Bruce Banner.