Whether or not you think Obama deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as Lincoln and Roosevelt, there's no denying that he has achieved great things in his life. And he appears to have done that while remaining a devoted, faithful husband to a woman whose own career and professional accomplishments he has a lot…

Didn't Hamilton have a years-long affair (maybe just an emotional affair, but still) with his sister-in-law?

Alison has always been an extremely anxious person who goes through life thinking that she's constantly being judged (in that last point, she and Noah are very similar). So I buy that in her memory the moment when she leaves the class was huge and dramatic, but probably wasn't so in real life (insert discussion here…

Especially since, when is this story supposed to be taking place? If the Paris attack took place three weeks ago in the Homeland universe, you'd expect everyone at the Berlin station to still be reeling from that and working on the aftermath.

It's quickly become one of my favorite shows, and despite the joke in today's title, to my mind the show as a whole is a much smarter take on the superhero concept than most actual superhero shows.

As I said, I suspect the resurrection was Marvel's idea, but I know that killing Coulson was. Whedon gave interviews after the movie came out saying that Marvel dictated that plot twist.

None of this is a bad idea, except that I really doubt that MCU is willing to actually direct meaningful criticism at its precious lead characters (I mean, if Tony Stark still counts as a good guy after nearly destroying the planet, I'm struggling to imagine what he could do to actually get the MCU powers that be to…

I like Agent Carter, which basically already is roped into the movies. I'd have a harder time seeing Daredevil in the movies, because the very justification for his existence is that he's the only person who can deal with corruption and crime (which is kind of ridiculous even within the show, because we have to…

I kind of assumed that the decision to make a show about SHIELD and Coulson was made by Marvel, who then handed the show to Whedon. Who, as far as I can tell, hasn't had much involvement with it since the pilot.

So here's what I've been wondering: so far, the movies and TV shows in the MCU have all occurred on the same timeline. The events of Age of Ultron take place about a year after the events of Winter Soldier, and S2 of Agents of SHIELD spans the time between them. But Infinity War will be split into two movies with a…

If anything, I'd say it's the other way around. Joss Whedon came out and said that as far as he's concerned, Coulson's resurrection, and thus all of Agents of SHIELD, never happened. The show tries very hard to coast off the movies, but but Age of Ultron (and, I suspect, Civil War) basically ignore its existence.

Yes.

And I'm pretty sure it's the people towards whom it is offensive who decide whether it's still a slur or has been "repurposed." And they've pretty definitely stated that they see it as the former.

Much too young. It's a grandma name, and even among the orthodox (who tend to go for grandma names) it's not in fashion. I'd expect a woman with that name to be at least 20 years older than the actress.

I think in general the show has made the point that everyone who could plausibly run for mayor is too scared to do it, and Oliver is only up for it because he can protect himself and has a team of superheroes watching him 24/7. And at least the show has acknowledged that the only way he could possibly win is by…

Colin Salmon also recently appeared in an episode of Master of None as a deranged version of himelf who likes to bake cinnamon buns and set up domino designs (I mean, I'm guessing that this was an exaggeration; who knows). There's apparently a whole class of British actors who we know mainly for dramatic roles but…

I think the point is that it's one thing to feel something like this, and quite another thing to say it, much less say it to someone who is clearly circling the drain.

Well, Jimmy was going to blow off Edgar's show in order to hook up with Nina - when she offers to pick him up at 5, he doesn't say "shit, I have to go to my friend's show." The sense I got was that Jimmy forgot about the show altogether, and while Gretchen's issues are a justification for that (and one that Edgar has…

My reaction to that scene was actually to be angry at Jimmy for not saying "that's it, we're going to the hospital." I know that there's hardly a magic cure for depression (and that the state of mental health care facilities in the US is terrible). But when someone is telling you that they're never going to get…

I think Laverne was a thing in S1, but only in the sense that you'd hear her voice on the radio. This show likes to pretend that it's built a world but when even the main characters are so poorly written, there's not much chance for the background players to be memorable.