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If you include Sci-Fi stuff like Sliders or to an extent even TOS alternate history stuff has been around for a long time and mostly tends towards Nazis/Confederates/The British Empire winning. Even ignoring the long history of literary alternative fiction it really is pretty rote and lazy for HBO to be making

You think Cohen saying the Iraq War was a good thing needs to be read more widely? Damn, no wonder you're a fan of Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

LOL.

Well Blair was responsible for the death of around a million people in Iraq and the destabilisation of the region that lead to the creation of ISIS who've killed many many more people so I can see how you'd prefer him to Corbyn who in a very specific context referred to HAMAS as his friends once.

It sure is odd that there's never any aspiration to make alternative history shows where, say, Mexico won the Mexican-American war (about as plausible as the Confederacy winning the Civil War) or where France decided not to impose tremendous debts on Haiti for its successful slave rebellion. Heck, imagine the

" With the frequently grey skies and sleepier feel to the town, there’s no reason this show couldn’t have been"

Man, business owners are going to think this is the best idea ever. Have the peasant fight among themselves AND put all the blame for the company failing onto a scapegoat!

Gentrification is terrible for poor residents of an area but artists moving into an area, wanting keep it quaint and to use services and shops not actually of use or even affordable to the original residents is a problem too. Richer people wanting to move into an area artists / bohemian types have raised the profile

I think you've made a minor mistake, in your description of Valentine road you initially refer to the victim as Larry King but thereafter refer to him as Clark.

Yes much like all the other movies with "eco-terrorists" in that aren't simply a way to smear the environmental movement such as

The part where the environmentalists are portrayed as violent extremists making wild threats?

Welp, looks like even my crush on James Purefoy wont make this worth watching. Time to re-watch Rome again I guess.