Apart from the time he was played by an Australian? Or an Irishman? In fact, Craig is only the second actor to play him to be born in England.

Most likely he'll be proven unworthy of it, hence the gladiatorial tests. Expect him to triumphantly become Mjlonir-ready again in the climax.

Totally. Just looked him up on Wikipedia and apparently he was in some obscure film about wizards? Hardly EW cover material.

Real mixed message here…

They could always just borrow the Clinton strategy and defeat ISIS by defeating ISIS.

Teti didn't come off well in that spat either. He started making cracks about Adomian being like a woman, which is never a good vein to mine ever, but particularly not when fighting with an openly gay man.

Oh, ok.

I completely agree regarding the horrible faux-Chinese accent. I'm genuinely baffled that he was ever allowed to bring a character like that on the show, let alone become a near-constant fixture. Particularly as there's absolutely no reason for that character to be a "funny Chinaman" in the first place, which is…

Definitely agree with you about Day After Tomorrow. He was playing so against type there, it was like he wasn't even in that movie!

Thank god! I was worried the fact that she's a racial segregationist who gleefully formed a double act with Glenn Beck might damage her career, but she lives to punch down and left another day!

Very late to this, but I totally agree. I actually think it's the opposite to what's implied in the review re: being out of touch with technology. Back in the MySpace days when the writers of the show were the characters' ages or maybe older, teens using wacky screen-names was the standard, but nowadays with Twitter…

And yet you called Rosa Diaz "Santiago?!" Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

I'm in the same boat, believe me! In Search Of Lost Time makes me look really smart when people see all the volumes on my bookshelf but hasn't managed to do a lot else for me yet. One day…
Dance is my favorite Murakami novel so hopefully you'll get the same enjoyment out of it I did. Don't get me wrong about 1Q84…

Oooof. If you're not sold on Murakami already, starting with 1Q84 is a very silly idea. As you can see from other comments, even diehard fans struggled with that one. The other recommendations for you below are much safer jumping off points. If your problems with him are cats and mysterious girls, though, you might…

You can definitely read Dance without reading the others. The earliest two have only just been rereleased in English after being out of print for decades so if you couldn't, just about every English speaking fan would have been screwed! Wild Sheep Chase is good but only relates to Dance very lightly, it's not a…

I'm just glad somebody finally got round to adapting Murder on the Orient Express.

I don't have an answer for Cheryl, but Archie's been a musician for at least the last fifty years of the canon. This whole article is about a song famously credited to him way back in 1969.

Oh god, not Mother Jones. The rag it's turned into is an abomination. I mean, I don't know what your politics are but I don't think a single person writing for Mother Jones today knows who it's actually named after, or what she stood for.

Well, not always exactly the opposite… He was an alcoholic for many years, after all.

"Style" is definitely decent apart from the GD awful, incongruous chorus. The verses are all cool and moody and then there's just this generic, lazy chorus tacked on with a totally different vibe.