FAMILY!

They didn't just leave out a part of it in this case; they took one of the main characters (and probably the most admirable one) and reduced her role to one line and narration of the "previously on" segments.

I liked the Silkworm more because I thought the ending of The Cuckoo's Calling was a bit farfetched; that, and I was able to guess the culprit this time.

It was, which is really unfortunate. They almost completely eliminated Sukhvinder, as well as most of Samantha's best moments, and they completely rewrote the climax.

Doesn't that argument assume that the families that had gotten divorced would have, or could have ended up like the families that didn't? You compare the performance of kids from divorced families to kids from "intact" families, but presumably the divorced group is more likely to include unhappily married families…

The junior executives and secretaries used to go there back in the first 3 seasons. It's where they were going to go to celebrate Peggy getting her first account.

But if he doesn't survive, is he a witch?

I've always understood his reputation to be less "he will kill all his characters" and more "he will create characters you love and then kill them in the most tragic, dramatically satisfying ways possible."

NOOOOOOOOOO! MY JUSTICE, CRUELLY STRIPPED AWAY!

Thanks, Obama!

I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but I would like to point out that a significant number of people who watch John Oliver (including myself) do so only on his Youtube channel. The net neutrality segment has nearly 9 million views:

Well, it might not count as tangible if we can't link it irrefutably to him, but John Oliver did seemingly cause his watchers to shut down the FCC's website with citizen comments supporting net neutrality. Presumably, this had something to do with the FCC's final decision.

JAMES HAS BEEN AVENGED!!! DIE, JAKE! DIE! JUSTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!

More like a phase palm.

Thank goodness for NoScript.

He was dealt a pretty good hand (both houses of Congress and a 60 vote majority in the Senate). Rather than press his advantage, he watered down his key legislation chasing Republican votes because he wanted to be (and believed he could be!) a bipartisan consensus builder:

I would have agreed with Ayotte, but then she signed Cotton's Iran letter and started backtracking almost immediately. I think she really shot herself in the foot with that, and she knows it: signing that letter certifies you as a joke outside the deep, Tea-Party Republican base.

Why don't you think they'll take back the Senate? It's a presidential year and there are at least 5 Republican seats in states that are either Blue or Purple.

Speaking as a liberal who is also not high on crack, I'm very excited for her! She has more-or-less the same views as Obama without any of his misguided notions that Republicans care about the country and want to work with a Democratic president. She has broad appeal to moderates and independents, she's far more…

Not to mention the court's most outspoken liberal was put there by Bill Clinton.