"Horses don't like fire. We learned that the hard way, didn't we, Ellen?"

Pretty much. If they would just stick to "thing that Netflix made that you might like," that would be fine, but noooo, they keep bringing up House of Cards. I'm not watching House of Cards!

There are also plenty of Method-trained actors who don't make a huge honking production out of it - you don't have to do the whole "stay in character all the time" thing; that's just one way of approaching it.

Hebrew doesn't do diphthongs as much as English does. It's Gah-dot, with the "o" sound like…I can't think of an English word that exactly works, but try making the "o" of "story" as a monophthong.

I was registered to vote and had a driver's license in my home state for ten years and didn't get called once. I would have happily gone, too!

Yeah, the one time I was in Middle of Nowhere, Texas I saw the Milky Way for the first time in my life, clear as anything. It was really something.

Oh hey, you took my high school bus too?

Entertainingly, as soon as I turned on my tablet in a hotel in Germany Netflix started populating my recomendations with German TV shows, including one I'd watched without subtitles on the hotel TV the night before. I'm, like, 90% sure I'm better off not knowing what the script said, though.

It seems we're doomed to never have a season that has a lot of Xan and Dierdre. Sigh.

The IP issues in the field can get interesting sometimes, and of course the labor issues are never-ending. But yeah, fashion law courses at a law school are like sports law courses - they're shiny-sounding and get great enrollment, but almost none of those students are getting into those fields.

I was going to say "unbearable," but yeah, insufferable just about covers it. By all rights I should be looking forward to this - I'm roughly in the characters' age group, I like a good chunk of the performers - and yet! I guess I'm pretty burnt out on the "childish dickbags learn to grow up 15 years after everyone…

I think American Ninja Warrior counts. It doesn't really focus that much on contestant interactions, but what there is of that mostly consists of them becoming training buddies and cheering each other on. The worst behavior you generally see is a frustrated contestant slapping the water after falling into it.

A small one without too many visitors can be funded by its writer. Bigger ones can be funded by donations. It's not easy to pull off, though.

Yeah, but the patient went under the knife trusting that their doctors were doing to perform a medically necessary procedure. If surgery was actually an organ harvesting scheme, why would anyone trust hospitals? More people die because they refuse to seek out medical treatment. (That's the utilitarian argument. The…

He's…most of the way through a good apology. The last and hardest part is actually changing his behavior. If he's actually well-behaved with the press corps and defends journalists after this, that would be the true sign he's sorry.

If Snowpiercer keeps Daveed Diggs from coming back for another season I will…shake my fist at my laptop! Sternly!

Mine hasn't touched a gun since the army and wouldn't dream of holding a weapon on anyone who's coming to our house. Visitors are guests, geez.

Wasn't he bluffing in order to keep up appearances against Iran?

Nah, they'll totally do "tort reform" for things like product liability, so corporations can put a definite price tag on each person their products harm and calculate how to keep it all profitable.

His general rule is that he's either nude or he dies, or both.