An analysis of the story in terms of composition, direction, and impact. And not some hackneyed breakout of cast demographics as viewed through the lense of some almost cartoonish post-PC bullshit? Did somebody get a memo or something?

Well thank you for saving me the trouble of going on to twatter to find that out. Entirely predictable, that.

Is it wrong that this show has me actually rooting for Jamal - a raping, murdering probable psychopath?

For the 4th week in a row I am getting a "lost" vibe from this show. (I wonder why, hmmmmmmm).

Bravo

Well the friend is profoundly skanky, I think. But deffo with you as to the daughter.

Picking up the torch from John From Cincinnati?

"…take your life and do, WELL, something different with it….."

If grabbing some T&A were potentially in order, the 15 year-old me would have followed a woman who was wearing a hockey mask and carrying a whirring chainsaw.

Wow. You, reviewer, are my new favourite at the AV Club. (An admittedly low bar, but still.)

This show is definitely interesting to me. My own personal measuring stick on a new show is generally "does my mind wander to other things while watching" (i.e. Tyrant). And with this it does not.

Ray Donovan is back for a second season? Oh for fuck's sake, Showtime must have a thinner bench than the Brazil World Cup team.

Watching house finches eating seed from my bird feeder is better than Homeland post season 1.5. But agreed as to the Bridge being better than those other shows.

Ha - "back in the day" callbacks aplenty for me. With Elwood Reid - who I knew at Michigan - I think this show will be in great hands. Matthew Lillard commenting about Rush is a great memory for all of us SLC Punk! fans out there. And the creepy Armenian cartel chick from the Shield coming back to run a similar…

I agree that the generic-ness of this Abbudin is rather frustrating. Perhaps the show creators are not giving the audience enough credit as to being able to understand the subtleties of the region.

This all day long. Excellent comment.

What about the UAE and Kuwait? No real "rebel" elements to speak of. Regimes are not "democratic" but are very popular with their citizenry.

You do know this is an AV Club review, don't you? "Doesn't watch show closely because too busy formulating meaningless faux-intellectual ramblings" is pretty well par for the course here.

His opinion I respect. Todd, on the other hand, seems to base his grades largely on factors distinct from actual entertainment value ("diversity" of cast, whether the screenwriting class he takes every Tuesday at the local community college would like it, etc.)

Certainly not up to the standard of my late '80s punk band ("The Cambodian Yuppies")