I think you're really missing the thrust of the critique here. It's about white guys as dominant cultural producers, which as a secondary and important effect leads to white guys as the primary subjects of most of pop culture. When she says John Mellencamp is not the one to tell this story, she is asking why the music…

"It would be cool if every single day didn’t bring fresh evidence that the demand for “franchises” has reduced filmmaking to branding."

I think I did enjoy that, but I remember some of the scenes with Lucy (who's smokin', by the way) being ridiculous and over-the-top.

I watched this last year and was really underwhelmed. A lot of it was just kind of hokey, bordering on campy to modern eyes.

They just don't make 'em like they used to.

Yeah, they need to remake this as Jane the Reasonable Virgin. Episode 1: Jane is accidentally artificially inseminated by her doctor, schedules an abortion. Episode 2: Jane has her abortion. Wrap party.

Yeah, Nick is just kind of a lousy guy—not especially driven, not especially committed, not particularly attuned to what his wife wants. He comes across somewhat more sympathetically in the movie, but fundamentally, both versions of the story take his side versus Amy, because Amy is a monster.

Movie scores. Read more carefully.

"No. But you have a siiiister…"

"Sean Connery winning his one and only Oscar"

It's not the only Kevin Costner vehicle from this era coasting on a completely unearned reputation. Check out The Untouchables sometime. Or rather, don't. What a fucking shitheap movie.

The cancer of unarmed black men? That seems to be the only class of people police are experts at eradicating.

"And to be honest I think a modern nation does have to have a police force, and that police are somewhat mixed as a group, so ambivalent/mixed is probably more sensible than simply negative."

It's a good counterexample, but it hasn't really been emulated. Also (and I didn't say this in my comment), I'd like to see a show about how terrible cops are from the perspective of the people who the cops terrorize. If the cops are your central characters, there's an inevitable tendency to humanize them. Dehumanize…

I don't know the answer to that. They weren't always as militarized and numerous as they are now, but the open antagonism to the people they're supposed to protect may be as old as law enforcement itself.

I mean, this looks like unredeemed schlock, but more than that, I'm waiting for the cultural moment where we can have shows that just openly and unreservedly hate the police. The police we have now are a cancer on our society, and it would be nice to see some kind of pop cultural response to that.

Found it: http://www.buzzfeed.com/kat…

Is there a tumblr for that?

"Yep. There should be a warning on the box saying that online friends
should be required to play, along with an Internet connection. It
wouldn’t be great for sales, though. There’s also something about the
sparse, empty environments which makes the game feel all the more lonely
by yourself."

"Luckily, there’s a lawyer, who does not seem to have ever set foot in a courtroom."