Well, he just insulted every religion… that matters.

My favorite example from history was when hardcore anti-porn feminists got into bed (ha!) with hardcore anti-porn Christians, even after the latter group went on the record (again) with their firm belief that wimmins should get back in the kitchens.

Saul says and does a lot of things to emphasize the fact that he's got other people by the balls, and the clothing and facial hair are but two of them. They're usually subtle like that - see interrupting David's meeting and calling his guest by her first name -  but the scene with the judge demonstrated that his…

You're right; that was probably a limiting factor on both sides. 16 and preggers is icky regardless of context, and 20+ and giving a kid up is unsympathetic regardless of context.

I hate to potentially spoil it for you, but TSC's cardinal sin right now might be (depending on how loyal they remain to the source material) failing to show the audience in a fleshed-out and consistent way just how much Bad Decision Dinosaur DNA comes along with the witchcraft stuff.

It was also a wonder to behold how I accidentally cast Tom Hanks in The Good Guys.

I'm not going to give you flak for railing, but I am going to give you flak for assuming that 28 years was picked arbitrarily. Manputational cycles were expended. Rather than merely being the oldest they thought they could get away with before risking certain demos, it was probably also the youngest they thought they…

Yeah, but mostly we'll give credit where credit is due, too. It's just that AV club reviewers are generally spot-on with pieces of flawed shows that actually work, which frees up the comment space for bitching.

They did an excellent job of setting it up as one of Carrie's go-to tricks, and they've also interwoven her propensity for seduction rather convincingly with her mental illness. When her back's up against a wall professionally, she resorts to sexual manipulation. When she's overwrought and frazzled, she resorts to…

If veterans can't solve their sexual and marital problems in creative ways, haven't the terrorists already won?

This is the third show this season (for me, at least) where the writers have displayed open contempt for the audience's intelligence, and simultaneously shown themselves to be utterly inept, by giving away too much stuff at the beginning.

The premise the show actually has is that this stuff is all totally real, totally. And now we have to deal with a bunch of characters who have no memory of the totally real stuff that happened to them, plus a main protagonist who has little reason to believe that it's totally real either - but the audience already…

Mentally ill kid desperately attempting to reconnect with his biological mother, incapable of interacting meaningfully with the world except through fairytales, constantly emotionally retreating and telling himself new chapters of the warped, twisted story that bridges the gap between his coping mechanism and reality.

The flashbacks were a terrible decision, and they were terribly executed. I say this in addition to agreeing with the criticisms already made about terrible acting and terrible writing.

Other things I really hate about young people: they're quick to anger and often resort to name-calling.

The original Matrix film, as a standalone, was essentially a nerd-homage to the tabletop RPG game Mage: the Ascension, with everything - the explanation for why Reality wasn't Reality, for why the heroes and villains could bend and break its rules, all of it - merely being one paradigm established by this particular…

I'd much prefer it to be entitled Somebody Get This Dirty Motherfuckin' Midget off Me Bleedin' Shoulders, Mate

(1) Makes sense and sounds awesome. It'd be the stepfather, though. Daddy was the werewolf.
(2) & (3) Wild and unkempt. Tons of volume, loads of split ends, twigs and leaves and mud. Insane Dark Ages Nature Witch Nina Dobrev? You know you want it.Although the Originals being caucasian does raise the possibility that…

I don't think we can assume any transfer of information offscreen. So, as it stands, the kids still don't know whether any of their parents/guardians are wise to their current hijinks, or whether Grandma is going to keep their secret.

Pffft, if that isn't a stopped clock being right 25 times a day…