Ah. Scott Buck working his showrunning magic?

At Longitude! Which closed just a couple days ago, unfortunately. The guy who invented Belter actually lives in Oakland too.

Hmm! The strength of this (well-written) review almost swayed me, but I hadn't quite wanted to watch this after seeing it described as cringe comedy—-which I tend to avoid; the secondhand embarrassment is just too acute. But I might give it a shot now.

Texas's concession speech was great.

Man, watching those two together will be something.

Eh—-if America as a whole stopped watching the Oscars, that'd probably be fine. I don't mean to present this opinion as groundbreaking or earth-shattering, because it's not. But we keep assigning entertainment much more significance than it deserves and if there was ever a time to break from that in favor of greater…

Feel like this was a message to staff that got posted to Twitter by mistake. How else to explain the lack of caps, exclamation points, and viciousness, and the weird imperative "Please wish everyone well"…

Oh man, that all of that was aired was just insane. "This moves twenty miles to the west, and you and everyone you know are dead. All of you. Because you can't survive it. It's not possible. And your kids die, too."

I feel like saag is kind of a second-level dish. I don't meet too many non-Indian folks who are into it or really know what it is. And I've always had the sense as an Indian person that it wouldn't go over well if I suggested it. But then I tend to stay pretty simple with it—-I've certainly never tried making a lamb…

Real talk, I have the sense it'll be Trump keeping an eye on Twitter feeds and demanding that anything in that department he dislikes be dealt with. With maybe some particular sycophants taking it upon themselves to keep him updated. Bannon'll be busy putting the right-wing nationalist agenda in motion.

I suspect there will be a lot of solidarity and commiseration between citizens of nations with fuckwit presidents and leaders over the next few years. Good luck to you too.

You might be talking about Allan Lichtman. I think Lichtman's prediction of impeachment was more wishful thinking than his win prediction was (the "keys" his win predictions are based on being pretty sensible and sound as measures of the way tides turn in American electoral politics). It feels like there are too many…

It always felt to me like a (sort of obligatory) romance angle—romance being a pretty common way to show a TV child individuating—that the writers lost interest in or room for and quietly abandoned.

Really! I mean, we might be looking at the next Indiana Jones.

I don't know that I get driven or determined from Bjorn, myself. I think he occupies the office, but doesn't much use its charisma; he doesn't believe in it as firmly as he'd need to and isn't willing enough to inhabit the role, even reluctantly. Hence the persistent, potentially mutinous second-guessing from Halfdan…

As The Devil and John Berryman points out above, in this case, "sniveling" seems earned. I'll grant it's ultimately a matter of opinion. But "sniveling" =/= "I wish he'd die," either.

"white guy" = "Stupid horrible white people I wish they'd all die"

There are some theories in consciousness studies about the way the unconscious mind perceives time, stating in effect that our conscious minds tend to impose a linear perspective on our experience that'll occasionally splinter, allowing us to glimpse images seen by our unconscious minds in what we'd consider the…

Bjorn's always been more cerebral and reserved than Ragnar was, which I think is what Dennis is getting at, here and in other reviews. And I've always liked that. It seems more accurate that Ivar get Ragnar's magnetism—if a version soured by bitterness and rage—because his disability and the way it puts him in…

So you almost got someone fired for calling you a name, and yet you want to complain about how *that person* oppressed *you*…