I don't think that's right - I think people chose to embrace the mindsets they embrace.

Trying to get Drumpf involved, huh?

Yes, but thankfully we have infinite lives. #dharmicliferules

I agree. Though I'd say the same thing about selling cigarettes without a permit.

The horror! I imagine they're happy to know that the passenger here was Asian-American.

I'm a little chagrined by the outrage over the United incident since it seems (in my circles) that everyone is down on United. Including people who are steadfastly opposed to BLM and who say things like, "just obey and nothing bad will happen." My point being, I'm alarmed that anyone exists who demands more…

New A.V. Club feature? Thought Process, with Donna Bowman.

Should have stuck with sugar sugar! And honey honey!

Cool. Where's our Madame C.J. Walker movie, please? (Also Ida Wells!)

"I think the point is that Josh didn't like it, because it wasn't anti-45… ENOUGH." Despite Joshua's claims, the season is no vindication of the right or alt-right. I can only imagine how much Joshua hates South Park.

Dar Adal and the Homeland producers conspired to make Joshua hate the show so much that he would quit.

I don't. We can agree to disagree, but my point remains - the show morphed into another show and Joshua doesn't like this choice. And, again, the biggest recurring criticisms Joshua had of this season were 1) Carrie seeming to be sidelined and 2) the Iranian nuclear plot. That has nothing to do with storytelling,…

So… present day Jimmy - panic attack? dead? Thoughts?

Your critique is just fundamentally different from Joshua's. I don't have the time or inclination to go back through his reviews for each episode, but there was a persistent and repeated reference to the show of Season 1 and a suggestion that it would be desirable to "return" to the show's early days. If you don't…

I can't say for sure, but I thought the CIA got transplanted protesters to come in to Cuba, Panama, and Iran. This is stuff I had read about but can't easily remember now, though. The general sense was that the CIA identified local candidates for dissidence, fed them resources and supplies, and built fake…

Good point about the role of Mossad. I think that the show does suggest the protests are fake, though - in one of the last three episodes, Saul has a little monologue about how everything outside the hotel looks "so familiar".

Like I said (somewhere here), the show was cagey. I think you can argue reasonably that Keane is part Trump (the outsider), part Clinton (the intelligent person), but mostly her own. But, the show clearly argues that there's an armada of intelligence, media, and software services manipulating us - that's a slam on…

Bingo

They like SOME popular shows, but I think the bigger thing is the site's writers sometimes struggle with following what a show is really about. (Not always: many writers, including Alston, do sensational work on other shows. Donna Bowman jumps to mind.)

I think that's being too fair to him. I also despise Trump but I don't think Homeland was making an explicit political statement beyond commenting about the interplay between democracy and intelligence agencies - the show was cagey, thoughtfully, about its thoughts about any specific real candidate or leader. I…