He only dealt meth for the jokes.

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I don't think that the English wife is particularly implausible. We've had two Secretaries of State relatively recently who were born and raised abroad, one of whom, Kissinger, has a very prominent accent. And that is a position that exists specifically to lead US foreign affairs in an official capacity.

Why choose?

I'm calling bullshit, on account of none of those words include a Y or a W.

Ah, got it. Thanks for clarifying. :)

Doesn't that mean Hannibal's audience (which, as you mentioned above tends toward online viewers) was more likely to pirate it? Doesn't that support what De Laurentiis was saying?

I am probably missing something here, because I don't really know anything about the tv industry, but wouldn't the fact that this show's niche audience mostly isn't watching on actual tvs anymore mean they are more likely to go online for shows they like, and as a result more likely to watch shows illegally, if they…

There was Vault, but that didn't come out until '05.

It was the style at the time…

fantastically fine.

Real talk: the Old Testament is batshit insane. Moses actually had to talk God down from killing all the Israelites after they had made the golden calf, even after he had saved them from the Egyptians and made them wander around in the desert for 40 years. God was an asshole.

I grew a in a very moderate protestant denomination, although I am not religious at all anymore in a conventional sense, and my church used the term faith in a couple of different sense. It was almost never used in the sense that it is being used in this thread, that is "faith in the existence of God." That you…

It's absolutely amazing how far special effects have come in the last decade. If you go back and watch the LOTR movies now, they look like they were made by some kid just dicking around on his iPad. What a time to be alive!

I'm actually not watching it, but aren't they supposed to be trying to blend in?

I was just a small child in the 90s, but it seemed like 90s fashion could all be grouped into one of two categories: utilitarian and absolutely fucking preposterous.

Do they really make sleeveless turtlenecks? Why would your neck be cold if your arms are hot?

If anything, knowing who Ben Carson was before the rest of us did makes you less of a hipster.

Don't get on Twitter. Twitter is where your brain goes to die.

Whoa. John Hodgman has been doing an extended Ben Carson bit since before we all knew who Ben Carson was.