It's a disappointment. Save for one moment which gets by on oddball energy, there's nothing in it that would be out of place in a languid '90s Outer Limits episode.

That tends to go for how the targets of the offence behave too. That's why calling bad faith is so rhetorically effective but near useless for accessing the truth of the matter.

The joke is they say words funny.

At the risk of sounding weird, your contribution to this thread has been wall-to-wall insightful and decent.

It's a skill for life. The person's perspective is listened to and you are given enough information (usually) to suggest your preferred outcome in a non-threatening way.

Which season merged at 8?

Hali sounds like three different people when saying single words.

What's he said on that?

The events surrounding Stalin's death were so bizzare, that it should only take some judicious deadpanning to turn into a comedy.

Not necessarily. Saying "I couldn't less about the Avengers or the conversation around it" would be self-negating. Saying "I couldn't care less about seeing the Avengers" isn't because caring about seeing the film and caring about talking about it are separate demesnes.

It's so, so, so a cut above that it's hard, for various reasons, not to take your time with it.

Try the Hundred Light-Year Diary, which is available legally online, and if it's to taste, then it's worth knowing it's fairly representative of the collection.

I stopped watching SHIELD because it was consistently awful no matter how sporadic my viewing of it became but Negga was one of the few worthwhile aspects of it not to be swallowed up by the surrounding shambles.

While I would disagree, I would enjoy a spirited claim that Scarlet's Walk is the greatest pop album ever made.

You might want to give Ted Egan's Axiomatic a go.

Creepily? We're nothing if not duly respectful.

Omnivore is doing God's work; they're reissuing Game Theory's Real Nighttime later this year too.

The Ballad of the Comeback Kid

You're conflating "true within context" and "false because of context". The reviewer is simply not wrong.

I was going to list a dozen contexts wherein "Ireland" does not mean the "Republic of Ireland", belying the conceptual gerrymandering that's necessary to make them, "in almost every situation", one and the same (including the Irish constitution, which in explicitly aspiring to an end to partition, is a crazy…