Oh, I actually meant, HOW do you format words in italics and bold on here?  But yeah, that seems like a good system of when to use italics and bold.  And thanks of the advice.

Yeah, I got the feeling that the kid being a hockey fan was running a fine line between kind-of suspicious, and patriotic because he's supporting an American team in D.C.  And who knows, maybe if the family is pretending to have roots up north, it could totally make sense that he's into hockey.  Minnesota is a pretty…

Yeah, that's actually a good point about not having encountered much more than nominal Christianity statistically prevalent among the middle class, whereas the zealous devout Christianity of the maid is generally more typical of more working class-type people whom they probably seldom associate with.

Oh yeah, I agree that there's a big difference between nominally/casually and devoutly Christian, but still, Philip and Elizabeth are people that have been trained to understand American society to the point of perfect emulation.

That's a really good point; I definitely didn't notice the parallels between the two scenes when I watched, but that makes a lot of sense now that you bring it up.

I think you're being a little bit harsh on her/misunderstanding of religious mentalities.  She was being put into an absurdly difficult position, and being asked to do something that was pretty much akin to betraying country and God, something that society tends to try to ingrain a deep sense of loyalty in for people.

Yeah, what do people usually eat caviar on?  It's usually crackers and stuff like that, right?

I'm generally really liking this show.  Like Todd said, the show does a lot to humanize people on all sides of a conflict which necessarily involves dehumanizing one's enemies and their way of life, and I think that was on display tonight when the woman Philip and Elizabeth threaten into helping them is worried about…

Yeah for reading Mieville this February!

Yeah for reading Mieville this February!

How good was the Neil deGrasse Tyson book?  I'm a big fan of his as a public persona/speaker promoting scientific literacy, but I've never read anything of his.

Granted, this isn't a place where you see a lot of homophobic/racial slurs to begin with, but I never realized that language was censored on AV Club comments.

I thought "A Storm of Swords" was the best book so far in ASOIAF.

I seem to recall claiming that I was going to read quite a bit this month, but I think that having a couple of weeks of not having to do anything at the end of December made me underestimate how busy I would be when a new semester started up.  
 
In January I finished the last two books of "A Series of Unfortunate…

Grimm is back?  That's nice, I suppose.  I hope Rosalee is back; a show losing its second-most-compelling character is a blow, especially on a show that only has two truly compelling characters to begin with.

@avclub-acd0ce34e1e973cc95b5a4a588b9dc8c:disqus Perhaps the farting Mickey Mouse book is more sinister than we've been led to believe.  Or maybe the life-giving-wizard had been waiting for years and years to give life to something in the mystery dungeon, and in his lack of confidence he made the farting book, which…

@avclub-acd0ce34e1e973cc95b5a4a588b9dc8c:disqus I just assumed that the flower grew out of his head when he buried himself.  He may have mentioned that?

Wait, you mean they weren't the same dude?

Wait, the people who DVRed it didn't miss the "SASSAGE" flare, did they?  Because that's instantly a pretty important piece of mythology to add to the AT universe in my book.

@ganews:disqus Was "Davey" the first appearance of the banana cops?