I have no idea about Vosloo, but Fehr is an Ashkenazi Jew (it doesn't look like it at first glance, but Fehr is a German name). As we've been seeing with Gal Gadot, that seems to break the American system of racial classifications (personally, I think it's obvious that Ashkenazi Jews are not POC, but that that…

Of course Major isn't making bad decisions right now. He's off that stage in his cycle. Right now he's in the stage where his chickens have come home to roost and he's getting all maudlin over how much his life sucks for totally predictable reasons. Which inevitably leads to depression, and then to more bad…

The show really downplays the risk of infection by accidental scratching. It strikes me as a much more significant vector than sexual relations.

I liked that moment over the guy's open skull in particular because it was a shared bit of zombieness that humans (such as Ravi) couldn't understand. iZombie hasn't done much in the way of developing a zombie sub-culture or identity, but bottom line, no matter how much Liv pretends to be human and dreams of being so,…

It's 100% unethical, especially since she has to be using Ravi as a named source or her story would be nothing but hearsay and speculation. This is something that TV shows do a lot, and which I find incredibly annoying. On Jane the Virgin for example, Jane tells a friend from her MFA program about her ex's family…

You know, if Trump is so opposed to the AHCA, he could just promise to veto it. Somehow I'm not holding my breath.

Jimmy knows the vet - that's how he got in touch with Huell. Though I don't remember how they were introduced (Mike, I suppose).

It's not a good sign when an adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House thinks we'll care about the casting of anyone except Eleanor.

Can someone explain why Jimmy can't just get a bridge loan off the expectation of the settlement? He wouldn't need much - $100K would be an extravagant amount to see him through the year, and that's less than 10% of what he stands to receive. Even if a bank won't lend it to him (and I don't really see why they…

In the annals of the Golden Age of TV, I don't think ER gets enough credit. Partly this is because the later seasons got pretty soapy and ridiculous (there's a reason the first thing everyone mentions when it's brought up is helicopters). But if you look back to the early seasons, it was really opening up what the…

Even with Cruise's name attached, I'm surprised by how well the movie did overseas. Were Oblivion or Edge of Tomorrow such successes out of the US?

I might grant you Russia, but Turkey was a functional democracy until at least a decade ago. Italy still is - it may have problems with corruption, but so does every other country in the world.

It happened twice in the space of two episodes at the beginning of S2. After that the show seemed to back off a little, possibly because the audience reaction was pretty negative.

An "actual democracy"?
An "actual democracy" where it's only been a few decades since all ethnic groups had the franchise?
An "actual democracy" that disenfranchises felons, and has spent decades systematically criminalizing one ethnic group in order to weaken its voting power?
An "actual democracy" where there is no…

It's almost as if the construction of concepts of good and evil in a fictional universe in which violence is the best way to solve most problems, and the conventions of storytelling demand multiple inherently killable opponents, does not lend itself to a particularly nuanced, or even non-monstrous, form of ethics.

As a general rule of thumb, the people who yell loudest about Sharia law are the ones who would most like to be living in the equivalent of Saudi Arabia, so long as it wasn't so explicitly Muslim and, of course, they got to be the ones in charge.

Man, don't bury that news about Better Call Saul. It's only the best show on TV right now (that's right, Americans fans; I said what I said). No wonder they're leaning so hard on the Mike/Gus stuff, which I find completely extraneous to what makes the show great (though obviously extremely well done) but which is…

Eh. Tell that to Erdogan. Or Putin. Or Berluscony. Parliamentary systems make it easier to get rid of yahoos like Trump - though you still need the will to accomplish it, which is often lacking - but they don't prevent them.

Well, just when I thought that Major had plumbed the full depths of bad life decisions available to him, he goes and find another sub-basement. Seriously, Major, just get back together with Liv. Sure, you'll be a zombie, but the trade-off will be that you can run all your choices by her and then not do them.

I'd quibble with Flash S2 being better than Supergirl S1 - in fact I might be inclined to rate it last that year. But otherwise, yeah.