OK Whaaaaaat was going on with Padma during that Quickfire intro? There can only be two possibilities: either (1) She JUST had sex with football guy, or (2) Before rolling, she told football guy that they were going to bone RIGHT AFTER announcing the Quickfire challenge.

First answer: if you can't find a single instance of 'great journalism' on television, that's on you. Second answer: I guess you have as low an opinion of the general public as Aaron Sorkin. The thing is, we 'endure' great journalism all the time - the fact of the matter is that great journalism can more often be…

The worst part of that finale was that it was boring. Say what you will about the awfulness of the penultimate episode (and it was god-awful), at least it had an actual plot and a divisive issue worth debating. This episode's only controversial argument is that it was going out on the principle it thinks it always…

Worst still is even the slight possibility that Finn might get away with what was a clear and simple massacre of innocents. If there's any semblance of civilization left in the Sky People they'll either give him up to the Grounders or charge him for war crimes because seriously, wtf. You can bet if Finn were anything…

true. and all the blacks and asians tend to be either very wrong or very dead. and of course there's a dorky sexless asian sidekick. and an evil middle eastern mad scientist. so there's still much work to be done - but it's definitely progress compared to the racial makeup of most other ensemble casts.

I mean if I had to venture a guess, it would be that the previous people in charge were mostly men and they all blew each other the fuck up. So when it came time to rebuild civilization, the patriarchs of the post-apocalypse thought "maybe this time around, let's swallow some pride and ask a woman for directions".

Has anyone noticed the improbably striking similarities between The Walking Dead and Top Chef? Both shows are at their most enjoyable when playing against the narrative formulas and audience expectations they've established over previous seasons. Also, whenever both shows try to get us to start caring about otherwise…

No one is making the argument that being condescending and patronizing makes one automatically wrong - although I think both behaviors are much more annoying than using the occasional buzzword to serve as convenient shorthand for behavior typical of someone "liv[ing] in a patriarchal society, awash in unearned…

Pretty sure people in this thread have gone out of their way to help point out what mansplaining is, using both specific examples from the show and real world experience. The fact that 'mansplaining' is a portmanteau using existing words in English to convey an altered meaning that is intelligible by anyone who also…

God they telegraphed it so poorly I laughed not out of surprise but out of a total lack of surprise. As soon as Sloan asks what the deal was with Charlie acting all weird and stuff you knew he was a dead man. And as a West Wing fan I can only imagine that McAvoy is due for one last crisis of faith where he will argue…

Yeah Lockhart has never been big on the long game, and this was the perfect scenario to show the consequences of that politically expedient shortsightedness play out in the most demonstrative way possible. But god love em he's become my favorite character on Homeland.

I love imagining Sorkin flustered: "Well…you see…the men are all me…and the women are…well, the women are me playing devil's advocate with myself."

It's all leading up to an even worse series finale ending montage where Ghost Dad, Ghost Charlie, Ghost Leaker, and Ghost African Boy Who Died For Maggie's Hair all show up as happy holographic apparitions for Jim and Maggie's wedding on the ACN balcony, ala Return of the Jedi.

It's a half-joke answer. Being a man, I haven't directly experienced someone condescendingly explaining something to me based on the assumption that my gender determines my innate intelligence. Asking a woman who has experienced such treatment might clarify things for you. It's kind of like how white people often have…

Ask a woman.

But then Paul Lieberstein arrives on the scene and also turns out to be a robot who was using the propaganda arm of the Robot Government to get humans to accept the inevitability of a robot-engineered Judgment Day. He then cranks up the Global Warming machine from Level 10 to Level 11 and every man, woman and child on…

At the end of the pilot episode we discover that All Seeing's parents were both ghosts, and All Seeing was actually screaming at an empty couch THE ENTIRE TIME.

"Mansplaining" is used to identify a set of behaviors displayed by many men in a male-dominated society - I'm sorry that you don't seem to see those behaviors on constant display by all of Sorkin's male author surrogates throughout this series. It's not a coincidence that the term "mansplaining" pops up WAY MORE in…

…Who were hired by Lucas Pruitt to boost ratings, of course.

I really, really hope that next week Will McAvoy gets killed on live television by guerrilla fighters from Equatorial Kundu.