I don't think Price has more power than WR there, I just think he is enough of a badass himself not to get pushed around. Though as you point out, he doesn't capitulate to WR's veiled threats, he in return plays the mutually assured destruction card, which kind of betrays he's not *as* powerful.

I don't think price knows about elliot. He's very powerful, but he doesn't know everything.

Edit: so I found this on reddit, and whether or not they show the whole thing, I think you're right, cisco is screwed

How did any of them fail their commitment? By trying to leave when they were gonna get killed? Besides Romero post-humously, the only one who actually fucked up was Darlene, who got Cisco raided/outed, killed a lawyer, and involved Angela with the femtocell, which also looks to have backfired

I like the show, but this episode just continued my frustration with the stupid cliffhanger obsession. Last episode: who was at the door!?? More or less nobody. Dom is covered in blood!?! It'll be a flesh wound or a dead waitress.

it seems very unlikely that they'd kill cisco off screen

is he supposed to be a 20-something? I honestly thought he was in his 30s. Pretty sure Donald Glover is supposed to be 25-ish, and Paperboy 5-8 years older. I think he even tells him he isn't gonna sell on his own because he's not young or white

Aziz's whole career is built on him being likable. He's not doing curmudgeon or shock comedy.

Does it bother you in a joke? I will occasionally use it if I'm impersonating someone in a bit with my black friends in a way I wouldn't risk around someone randomly (white or black).

This show is so fucking good. It's a little like Louie, sure, but it avoids my biggest problem with that show and puts the focus on the comedy first. The surrealistic flourishes serve the comedy, not the other way around. And Donald Glover is simply the better actor.

I think that's a little unfair. Like the Weakerthans, AM always used their leftist politics to color/inform their personal songwriting. You don't have to agree with the politics to feel the truth in a song like 8 Full Hours of Sleep or Walking Is Still Honest.

Pretty sure you're being sarcastic, but even if everyone who loved this EP figured it all out the moment Laura came out, it's still worthy of an article.

I don't know. Walking on the Sun over Casablanca actually made me laugh. That Dire Straits song kind of rules. It's ironic, but only because it's such a happy song.

I really think if you cut their career off at (or before) American Idiot, you could easily make a case for BJ as one of the great pop songwriters of all time. It's a shame that they've diluted their name so much in the last decade

It's important to remember that AM were trailblazers/banner-wavers in the genre of anti-capitalist folk punk. They wrote songs about just living the punk life and hoping america would fall apart. It was immature for sure, but they also ended up with a very sincere fanbase who was living that same way. It's not just…

While I'm for irony with things that don't matter, like religion and politics, in art, painful, borderline embarrassing sincerity is vastly preferable to a full shield of ironic detachment. I'll never understand the urge for people to reflexively shoot down someone for going all-in

Singing in falsetto is pretty, but for whatever reason, it's just harder for me to emotionally connect to something when the whole thing is that level of affectation

life is boring for almost everyone, everyone feels anxiety, joy, anger, and boredom, no matter where you come from. All of stand up comedy is first world problems.

I like Mr Robot, and I don't think the show has been too slow. I'm with you, almost 100%. I just don't think the show should lower itself to the forms and constraints of "tune in next week" television. That's a gimmick from a dumber show. A gimmick designed to hook the very people you're lashing out at.

Honestly, your whole comment is kind of opaque to me, but I don't think there's anything meta about complaining about too many cliffhangers. Cliffhangers are a byproduct of art sold piecemeal, and in all examples it hurts the form as single entity, as it places arbitrary import on rising, unresolved tension at the end…