Network TV trying to rip off FX's The Americans and failing badly.

"Netflix production values and budget"? While the Netflix MCU shows are great, it's pretty clear that the 'street level' shows are a step (or more) down in terms of budgets, locations and CGI.

The Cardigans, especially in their first phase, are close to peerless with matching sunny, candy-coated arrangements with subversively depressing lyrics. Lovefool sounds so happy and then the lyrics are all about begging someone to lie to them so their self-delusion isn't shattered.

"Steal My Sunshine" by Len is pretty far from the rest of their output.

College student Sandra was added halfway through the first season as Cosby wanted to show a black student succeeding in college. The other daughter was wild child Denise - Olivia (Raven-Symone) was Denise's stepdaughter through her marriage to naval officer Martin.

Actually, I moved on with my evening and caught a movie (Oscar nominated animated shorts - quite good). I thought you were against ad hominem attacks but apparently I'm a 'punk' for calling you to task. People can decide whatever they want about your reputation or mine on the basis of our statements. Godspeed.

That explanation doesn't really fly as your (now edited) sentence would not have made grammatical sense if the error was as you claim.

So when you are called out for using a hurtful term and then try to pass it off as a quote, the person doing so must be on their 'period'. Got it.

As a black man who has had that insult levied against me, I don't need you to whitesplain it to me. Putting your thoughts in quotation marks to pass them off as Cosby's is disingenuous - he would never have used that term.

I think that speaks more to an ingrained prejudice on your part that you equate proper English usage with 'white'.

It is an… interesting choice, especially considering in the original script Cliff was a plumber. Cosby lobbied the network to make the Huxtables upper-middle class instead of another working class black family on TV (ex. Good Times) and so the plumber and housewife became an obstetrician and lawyer.

She's not from Manhattan and she's not a princess. I can't remember the exact reference but I believe she's from the upstate suburbs and with her father having abandoned the family during her childhood, I don't think she grew up rich.

Or a fjord.

Thompson and Sousa's conversation heavily implied that she and Sousa had some sort of relationship and its ending played some part in Sousa leaving for the LA office.

They reflect modern sensibilites because they're being made NOW. Any piece of art, even if it's intentionally a throwback, is partially a comment on the time and place of its creation.

I just hope Ryan Hurst gets some good publicity out of this show. He was easily the heart of Sons of Anarchy and its most soulful performance (outside of Sagal's criminally underrated 2nd season). He's such a literally big presence and yet plays emotionally wounded/troubled so well. It was a shame SoA ran out of plot…

I was reminded of a moment relatively early in Mad Men when during an argument, Betty snipes at Don that even though he had money, he never UNDERSTOOD money because he didn't grow up with it. Dre was paying his bills on time and was proud of his credit rating, but he never truly understood the difference between being…

I'd love to get a crack at her.

Have You Ever Had It Blue? - The Style Council
Shut the Club Down - Girl Talk
You Know What - N.E.R.D.
Mermaids - Paul Weller
Da Da Da - Got the Girl
Fleeting Mind - Ocean Colour Scene
Q.U.E.E.N. - Janelle Monae
Living Room - Badly Drawn Boy
A Tale of 2 Citiez - J. Cole
Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash

The Watts riots were a reaction to a overly physical police arrest of a drunk driver. I'm not saying racism didn't exist but it was much less often of the violent lynching variety (especially in a large city) than you seem to believe. They would have been much more likely to run into a more insidious, personal…