Fruitvale Station:   Finally got to see this, one of the year's earliest acclaimed films, from the 2013 Sundance Festival. Making a film of the final day in the life of Oscar Grant poses challenges: Grant's final day doesn't really have a plot arc, per se, though Coogler's screenwriting makes some attempts at…

And keep in mind that Martin Sheen never won for playing Jed Bartlet, but Jeff Daniels won for playing Will McAvoy.

Generally a strong episode, but I'm really not sure the death of Andrea worked for me.  It didn't really strike me as dramatically necessary (Jesse was already implicitly threatened with their deaths, so I'm not really sure why he seemed to forget that), and the staging, despite Aaron Paul's wrenching performance,…

It's really silly to reduce Walt to that.  His family was why he started it; vanity was what caused him to reject Gretchen and Elliot's help at keep at it.

Wow, that takes me back.  It was the 1990s, when elementary school book fairs were the locus of the literary scene for me.

I think this seals Miami Metro's place as the worst TV cops ever.

RoboDoakes was the ending this series needed, but not the one it deserved.  Hence, Lumberjack.

"I wish I'd been a girly, just like my dear papa…"

So, in retrospect, did the supporting cast of Dexter matter even a tiny bit?

@waterballoon:disqus :  That's not true.  He's the direct cognatic descendent of Philip IV via his daughter Isabella; if cognatic primogeniture applies, his claim is superior to that of the House of Valois, the current occupants of the throne.  Hence, the Archbishop's argument, which alleges that at various points in…

Screw you, William Howard Taft.  In 1912 you were reduced to carrying Utah and Vermont.

Years from now, people will ask each other where they were when the finale of Dexter aired, like Pearl Harbour, the Kennedy assassination, and 9/11.

Not true.  Henry V was a Lancaster; the Tudors took leadership of the Lancastrian movement after the people who were agnatically Lancaster were all killed.  The Yorks were the ones who were more open to criticism, though Richard III ends with Henry VII Tudor and Elizabeth of York's (planned) marriage and the union of…

@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus :  Raising a defense has two parts.  First, the defense must demonstrate that there's an air of reality to the claim, i.e., that it's plausible based on the facts (it doesn't have be beyond a reasonable doubt, or even a balance of probabilities; just a possibility).  The…

@Kumagoro:disqus :  He's still not a non-European native English speaker, though.

I've never understood the reputation that section gets as comedy and/or hard to understand.  The Archbishop's argument is quite straightforward.

@avclub-e5c9a9b84b65dfc5ba62c677aefc5d4a:disqus :  Pretty good.  I also saw the Stratford productions of Hamlet and Titus Andronicus, which I liked more, but I tend to prefer the tragedies.

@avclub-0c3e626d1a287cdc48c77515c8dcc243:disqus :  That's Picard respecting Worf's personal autonomy.

Wasn't that basically Rascals?

I saw Roger Allam at the Globe this summer as Prospero.