I don't think the character is supposed to have an American accent. But I might just be thinking that because it is so bad if she's supposed to be passing as a born and raised American.

They allude to having had other storylines in this environment alone. It stands to reason there are other environments with multiple storylines out there too.

It seems like the CEO has "push code into prod without QE" privileges. The head of engineering knows about this, but is either unwilling or unable to stop this behavior.

@dsklr:disqus @ChairmanMauzer:disqus I was about to reply to the parent saying the violent crime is actually down, only to find that multiple commenters had already done so.

He's in the 15 Million Credits episode of Black Mirror - the one where people spend their entire day on exercise bikes.

I think it's safe to start trusting him now. He went to Ryan's house in good faith - hoping to tell him they were back and give him a key to the server room.

I'm Bangladeshi-American myself and while I wish it were a Bangladeshi family portrayed, I'm also cognizant of the fact that it's easier to find and cast an Urdu or Hindi speaking family than a Bangla speaking one.

Give it a few more shots.

Strongly agree. A lot of that has to do with how Aziz chooses to handle race in the show. Other than the occasional interaction with immigrant parents, Aziz's racial and social identity is largely indistinguishable from any upper middle class white protagonist in NYC.

Getting rid of a text-based conversational OS after Apple brought the GUI to market and it was making the Giant slow hardly counts as a betrayal to me.

No way those VCs would have gotten sued. Until VCs choose to invest in a company they are completely external to the company. Donna and Cameron would have had as much ground to sue those guys as they would an actual frat boy yelling obscenities at them from across the street.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'm a little frustrated that everyone seems to be treating Joe's business as some kind of Machiavellian scheme where he cheated Gordon out of millions of dollars.

I used to worry that my reason for no longer enjoying Girls (despite loving the first season), was my inability to deal with non-conforming self-indulgent female characters in their 20s.

Was about to post this in the general thread, but saw your comment and thought I'd just ask you directly - have enjoyed Soderbergh's work - The Knick, Side Effects, Out of Sight - but somehow have not watched either Sex, Lies and Videotape or Traffic. Which one should I watch first?

I'm a year late to this and I kept scrolling through the comments hoping you'd show up.

And you've convinced me. The world of The Expanse is many many orders of magnitude more complex than BSG which is effectively just one battleship (and very analogous to a modern day aircraft carrier) plus some civilian details strewn in for color.

This is a very valid and thorough account of how different the two shows and one I completely acknowledge. Thanks for taking the time to point this out.

Counterargument - BSG. My memory is likely clouded by how thoroughly those characters were developed over many seasons, but it's hard to argue that Adama or Roslin or Baltar are equally simplistic characters in the first four episodes of BSG.

peak TV

Which I think hurt the second season. Way too much happens, especially in the span of the last half. I found myself missing the more deliberate pacing of the first season.