The real point of reference here is Red Shoe Diaries.

Per @avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus below:
"I also note the historical Crassus didn't have a son called Tiberius…"
Which I did not know.

That, coming from your avatar …

The absolute heartbreakingly worst part has to be:
"Robbins then began hitting his dog, and told his girlfriend that he
would continue to abuse the canine until she got his money back …"
Charlie Brown abusing Snoopy?!? WTFFF?

Then again, reading anything in the voice of Linus makes it more depressing.

I really did.

Except our tax money isn't going to fund Sinn Fein. Meanwhile Israel continues to get more U.S. tax money than any other country in the world, by far, plus extra perks no other country would ever dream of getting or giving.

Except our tax money isn't going to fund Sinn Fein. Meanwhile Israel continues to get more U.S. tax money than any other country in the world, by far, plus extra perks no other country would ever dream of getting or giving.

I went in 1980. I don't remember much specifically about their radio, other than being perplexed at the odd mixing they'd do, like playing something from The Wall in between disco tunes, but I just generally remember not liking it.

And Zionism wasn't all that popular among Jews - much less anyone else - before WWII. The Orthodox universally regarded it as blasphemy, for the same reasons some ultra-Orthodox still do today. See, for illustration, Chaim Potok's The Chosen.

If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage.
- Schopenhauer's Law of Entropy

@Gjetostbuster:disqus: I'll never get out of my head his soliloquy as he realized just what he had when he found the Golden Ticket:
"If God were a villain, he'd be me."

Strike Back was not crap. But Charles Dance definitely classed up the joint there as well.

Agreed. I also think Spartacus will be dealing with the responsibility of dealing with the needs of his many followers, as well as the whole tension between his egalitarian philosophy and his status - unsought but inescapable - as the Great Leader.

There is such a thing as overuse of a cinematic technique/ gimmick. Not every remotely parallel set of scenes need to be intercut. Sometimes it's better to just let each one play out on its own. There was plenty of jump-cutting going on in Gannicus's 3some as it was.

I'm glad the story is being given exactly the length the writer wants to tell it in. The desire for "more" is what kills so many shows, as has been oft-noted around these parts.

@avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus: Liked for the Tropage.

I missed the "Jesus on the Road to Emmaus" reference, not having much background in Christian parables.

I didn't even realize I was the first poster - and had I known, I'd have been even more disappointed, rather than "woo! first!". I mean, really?

The only Masterpiece Theater-type show I ever got into was A Very British Coup. I would vote for that guy.