I read the title as "Pinochet did a perfect and strange weather forecast" and I must admit some disappointment.

Why do people keep saying he was funny at the Oscars? His "Maryl Streep was supposed to play Lincoln" joke is the absolute textbook definition of a lame celebrity joke, and the delivery was awful. Did I like, miss something? Did he go off on a brilliant five minute David Mitchell style rant after that?

Devil's advocate:
Deadwood in its focus on character relations in a historical setting.
8 Mile in its depiction of the formative years and influences of an artist.
Shakespeare in Love in its Shakespeare.

Ba-dum-tsss!

It depends, is it 1890?

Seriously Sean, it's 2013. Arrested Development Judy Greer lines are so 2004-2012. Archer is in all the way.

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A non coal friendly Democrat who is quite literally a Hollywood liberal and has had a sex scene with another woman on screen has even less chance.

I'm happy for the Kentucky Democratic Party but sad for the news media.

I haven't seen a Pacino movie made in the past twenty years…is he just like that now?

I get your argument, but there is literally only a single rape in the entire corpus of the Icelandic Sagas (at least of those set in Iceland, I'm less familiar with the others). It was not nearly as big a part of their culture as you seem to think.

I felt Ang Lee was a clear favorite, even over Spielberg. Zeilten and Russel were seen as lightweight, Spielberg pissed in the Academy's cheerios or something, an Haneke is foreign and thus gross.

Well this is interesting, because I disagree with literally everything you just said, in a way that is pretty much irreconcilable. I think any debate here would just become "Nuh uh!" "Ya huh!" ad nauseum.

Was there really any objections to that? Even if you don't like the film (and the common complaint seems to be "ew, spiritualism!") it was pretty masterfully directed. Haneke is probably the only other director nominated I would have been comfortable with winning.

How can you possibly claim Argo isn't a directorial masterpiece? Did you miss the bit where the camera tracks two characters in dialogue down a hall? Or the bit where the camera slowly zooms in on a character who is making an important decision? Or the scene with all the tightly edited closeups to show the chaos and…

Do you seriously need us to tell you? I'm now seeing it written as "Welcum ta erf".

Remember when the old lady drags the metal boat through an acid lake? Fun stuff.

Sort of. It may not have been the central legislative body, but it was still a collection of the most prominent and influential individuals of the Empire. It is important to note that every single emperor until Pertinax was a Senator, and most of the generals and governors were Senators as well.

Especially when compared to his henchman Svein, who may be one dimensionally evil but positively radiates menace.

OK, so, first off, AV Club you should do regular reviews of this. It is better and better rated than some of your other shows, and we should encourage History Channel to follow a good path, of well made historical drama rather than a dull succession of hillbillies.