Hm. Somehow I remembered Jimmy Fallon and the advance to Bastogne actually being in the episode "Bastogne". Weird.

Oh yes. That episode, and that scene, is my favorite as well.

See also "The Winter Soldiers" by Richard W. Ketchum, another tremendous book about the 1776 campaign.

They could have shot the capture of Lee a little more true to life and still have it work for the plot. Lee was in a tavern a couple of miles from his army. Just have it in the show that he was away from his army because he wanted to fuck his tavern wench, the spy for Andre.

Well now I've seen the episode, and that was pretty silly. Gravestones? They couldn't build fortifications out of earth and wood?

Ouch, this show trails "Mad Men" by about 1400 comments. Too bad, I like it and I like the recaps.

I'm a week behind, but my god, the CGI at the end of last week's show was the worst I've ever seen. There are video games with better effects.

Greene was essentially responsible for the defeat at Fort Washington. The fort was a little bit north of what is now the George Washington Bridge, and more importantly, at the time it was the only Patriot position on Manhattan Island, which had otherwise been captured by the British. The whole idea of defending…

I remember reading once that Gwinnett's signature is one of the most valuable in the world, because he was a signatory to the Declaration, and he died so young so there are few samples.

Fuck anti-vaxxers, fuck them right in the ear.

Actually that's a great parallel. Anti-vaxxers are basically liberal creationists.

Jimmy's still alive

There have been like four movies about that guy, and Mark Harmon still has the definitive portrait, I think—but you're right, Matthew Rhys could knock that out of the park.

Yes, they are "illegals" because they are spies doing illegal things. The KGB agents at the rezidentura all have diplomatic immunity. If the FBI catches Phil and Liz giving classified documents to Arkady, then P&E go to jail for a long time while Arkady gets a plane ticket to Moscow.

That's a rough little run he's on, when his only recent plus is in an animated film.

Annie Potts as the mom! Sweet.

I remember an episode based around some suburban dad, who notices that the people around him start talking in gibberish—like, out of nowhere, they just start randomly mixing English words around, and everyone understands the new lingo except him. I remember one scene where he picks up one of his kids' books, and…

You raise at least one interesting name there. Joan Crawford's filmography has a really low ratio of wheat to chaff. She made about five decent-to-good movies, and a whole lot of garbage, and she worked for over 40 years.

Well, he has made a lot of crap movies.

I've never found Audrey Hepburn sexy at all. Very cool, very stylish, but were there lots of male moviegoers in the 1950s who wanted to sleep with Audrey Hepburn?