It's also the exact same programme as The Paradise, which prompted much bitching between the BBC and ITV over which was more original - which is akin to Mao Zedong and Pol Pot arguing over who was more worthy to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Many critics buried it in its first season with mediocre reviews, only to start singing its praises about a fortnight before it was cancelled.

And yet they never mentioned his greatest role: PotBelly in The Cleopatras.

Speaking of Dillahunt, this is the worst film-to-television substitute casting since they tried to pass off Lena Headey as Linda Hamilton in The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

The Truman Show was great.  I'm not sure if Lord of War could be considered in the same category, but it's still an immensely enjoyable film.  I enjoyed the idea of Gattaca, but felt its characters lacked warmth.  Never seen S1mone (except for on MYOF).

Pheonix is beautiful, and the earlier City of Night-esque sequences are entertaining.  Everything else is just boring.

D'oh.

"This is not the "sketchy guy ambushing you from the bushes" type of rape that causes long term psychological damage."

I've really got to dispute this.

Is there a director's cut that excises everything but River Pheonix?

What's really going to piss me off is that all critics who are now going to lament the passing of Enlightened and its failure to be appreciated by the ignorant plebeians are the same critics that gave the first season a mediocre reception and thus doomed it from the start.

For a guy who apparently doesn't dig superhero comics, he has a very Silver Age name.

Similarly, the definition of countryside is killing Alexander Theroux.

"That might be the book’s apex of self-parody, if not for the part where Theroux scolds Gene Chandler for singing that the “Duke Of Earl” has a dukedom. (“A duke,” Theroux sniffs, “lives in a duchy.”)"

Swapping Ls and Rs is Japanese-specific.

The issue with gentrification is that by raising property prices in an area, it essentially forces out poorer residents who can no longer afford the rent - not that it creates condos and retailer outlets.  God forbid we should lose all those picturesque industrial factories.

And his Lincoln joke.  The man's been dead for 148 years, god damn it.

Shakira / Danzig:

The Dot Com quote isn't as profound as it thinks.  Of course a political party is going to have ideologically evolved over the course of 148 years.  After all, it's not like the Democratic Party is still the party of white southerners.

I don't hate Bieber because of his insipid song history - although that certainly doesn't do him any favours.  I hate him because, by all accounts, he's an unpleasant and egotistical individual who cannot open his mouth without insulting entire countries.