Yeah, definitely. Njal's Saga might almost be a bit too good to make into a miniseries, but Laxdala Saga would be perfect. And Hraffnkel Freysgodi Saga could make a great movie.

That film is surprisingly historically accurate, actually. The events depicted are fake but the filmmakers really did their work.

Actually, what are sometimes considered to be the earliest courtroom dramas in Western literature is in an Icelandic Saga. The "bad guys" (relatively) even often get off on petty technicalities!

I know this is really petty, but for god's sake you wouldn't say Jarl Haraldsson any more than you would call Richard the Lionheart "King Plantagenet". From the NYT profile of the show it seems like that will be the least of the minor yet grating historical inaccuracies (the producer thinks the Vikings were illiterate…

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Get outta here with your facts.

Shh you're wrecking my theory.

You could make an argument that Robert Mitchum is one in Night of the Hunter. And definitely Walter in the Italian quasi-neorealist quasi-classic Bitter Rice.

And yet another character who question the iron clad class structure of turn-of-the-century England is spirited away.

I understand both perspectives offered. On one hand, this did feel more like a standard episode of Community and this season has so far been branching out. On the other, it really just wasn't funny. I view this as sort of an inverse of the last episode, which had some great lines but felt like an episode of a dumb…

For sheer brutality it is hard to beat Catullus 85:

Hey, remember that time Morrissey claimed the Chinese were subhuman?

I view this film as being like a late Robert De Niro performance—it goes through the motions, and is a good impersonation of a John Woo film, but lacks that special something. I think it is viscerality—contrary to what you say, John Woo's immaculate and stylish choreography does not bleed out the humanity or…

Don't! He's allergic.

Still waiting for the Frisky Dingo crossover. I want Awesome X and Archer to meet.

Don't you mean…BIZARRO sploosh?

I always assumed Conan O'Brien was the obvious choice.

I want Tim Heidecker. watch his standup and say he wouldn't be the best host: