Even better (worse), mere hours before the invasion, a German soldier with communist sympathies swam the Bug River to warn the Russians about the impending attack.

Because it's the right thing to do.

It's Saul Berenson, obviously.

Season two was an enormous improvement on what was, let's be honest, a mostly awful first season elevated by one good and one genuinely excellent episode. Season two felt like a different show entirely; all but a couple of episodes surpassed the best of the first season.

Another fine takedown, which doesn't even go into all the problems with DNA testing: http://usvsth3m.com/post/96…

Honestly, what bothers me most about season 5 isn't Byron, or individual plots, or the sense of treading water. It's the production values, specifically the sets for the station itself.

My bet paid off! I didn't watch any of season four, convinced it would tarnish my memory of the show and that only Harmon's impossible return could tempt me back (and that even if he didn't come back then the show would be cancelled and I could safely pretend the third season was the last).

HBO's CEO of Tits begs to differ.

"I call the big one bitey."

"I call the big one bitey."

"gets surprising comic mileage out of … the stern manner of dentists (when Ralph tells the dentist he brushes three times a day the unimpressed dentist asks him, 'Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?')"

"gets surprising comic mileage out of … the stern manner of dentists (when Ralph tells the dentist he brushes three times a day the unimpressed dentist asks him, 'Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?')"

"Sam Seaborn will have to pack his bags, spend 90 days at home just so he can lose to a Republican committee chair he hates, squashing any chance of running for office in the future."

"Sam Seaborn will have to pack his bags, spend 90 days at home just so he can lose to a Republican committee chair he hates, squashing any chance of running for office in the future."

Voyage, a standalone that depicts the planning and staging of a manned mission to Mars in an alternate timeline (1963 to present) is one of his finest: a near-perfect mix of the inspirational and technical, with a verisimilitude for the astronautics and political that's unmatched by any other novel in the genre.

Voyage, a standalone that depicts the planning and staging of a manned mission to Mars in an alternate timeline (1963 to present) is one of his finest: a near-perfect mix of the inspirational and technical, with a verisimilitude for the astronautics and political that's unmatched by any other novel in the genre.

Pierre Curie didn't die of radiation poisoning; he had his head smashed in by a horse-drawn cart. Now who looks smrt, eh?

Pierre Curie didn't die of radiation poisoning; he had his head smashed in by a horse-drawn cart. Now who looks smrt, eh?

I haven't watched for a few years, but have they 'done' Breaking Bad yet? When they do (long after it's been parodied better elsewhere) they'll still muck it up by casting the overused Gil in the Walter White role, when clearly it should be Kirk.

That was fun; I hadn't seen the film for a long enough time that it wasn't a chore to sit through. I had to bail early because it was 2am here, but this should totally be a more regular feature. Would it be more fun with a legitimately loved film (someone suggested Serenity?), or loathed (The Happening would be a good…