I'm still trying to get over Brandine smoking meth and the gay incest at the very end. Interesting what S&P is letting them get away with these days.

Is there a term for faux-feminist works? Works that, on the surface, appear to be about women and their agency but are actually deeply conservative and conventional? Because Pan Am is a perfect example of that.

There's no shame in admitting that you're out of inventory ideas and shutting it down, you know.

Does this open the door to a Sleater-Kinney reunion as Simpson voices?! Make this happen, Simpsons!

I thought it was the intersection where one of the band members lived?

Simpson is derived from 'simpleton'. But perhaps that's a made up cover story for the lazier inspiration of a street name.

So when will cable start doing more 30 minute sitcoms? Quirky shows that struggle on networks (like most of the NBC Thursday lineup) would be monster hits on cable (like It's Always Sunny, for example). What are the chances that a network sitcom could jump to USA or FX or wherever?

@avclub-b0dae075785888267fc19871f3e7dab7:disqus Does that discount everyone else's account of the situation? In subsequent years, several network people came out and admitted that the network was the instigator of a lot of the on set drama and that Rosanne wasn't just a paranoid megalomaniacal control freak. They…

I know I've seen it on youtube. It can't be hard to find.

You've obviously never worked with TV or film producers. That's not crazy at all. Producers can be petty tyrants, abusing actors and other creatives because they know that the creatives are usually desperate for work and will put up with it.

He probably raised a stink about a creative choice and, in HollywoodStudioLand, that means "difficult". I applaud him for sticking to his principles.

He was on the Young Turks a few weeks back and, in between plugs for his tour, they talked a lot about the corporate control that he's fought against in his creative career and how that ties in to the Occupy movement. Heady stuff for a Crispin Glover fan.

He's the type that's best appreciated from a distance. He most likely IS a huge, irresponsible, narcissistic douche in his personal life, but it's masked by the massive amounts of charm and intelligence that comes out in interviews and whatnot. So, best not to spend any significant time with him in person.

Favorite moment: Ron reaching for his ankle piece as Leslie makes her announcement for campaign manager, then backing off when he's not picked.

According to the doc, she was convinced of his innocence before she started corresponding with him.

I've known too many directors so I'm unable to make that assumption.

It's partly the identification with them (I still wear mostly black), but what sticks with me is the Kafka-esque injustice of the case. It was a late 20th century witch trial. It's so patently, screamingly obvious that the police, prosecutors and original trial judge railroaded some outsider, troubled kids on nothing…

Watching it now. A little less than an hour in, they quickly show some of the forensic photos of the children's naked and mutilated bodies.

I'd like to think that the filmmakers would say that a clunky, rushed ending to their film is a small sacrifice for the real world result that they helped achieve.

They probably didn't want to confuse the white people who don't know what the upside down exclamation mark means. You don't want the title of your show, which focuses on ethnic jokes, to be too ethnic.