It shouldn't be about "how to write a black character long-term", since black people and people of color in general also experience drama and have similar feelings as white people (in addition to the unique forms of drama and feelings they experience as people of color). It should be about being able to add the same…

another nice detail: Alicia and Prady are eating what looks like nothing more than American cheese stuck between two cold slabs of white bread. [In Tracy Morgan's voice]: "Caucasians like to eat things that remind them of how bland they are!"

I read The Kitchen Scenes in the exact opposite way. Sure, it began as a sincere effort by both candidates to clearly articulate - and in some instances, actually discover - their positions on crime & race-related issues, but it soon devolved into another opportunity for craven photo-opping and political pandering.…

On A Very Special Episode of Hardball with Chris Matthews: Chris Matthews interrupts everyone before they get a chance to answer anything - but this time, it's just part of the rules!

Yeah, and where the hell did Taye Diggs' character go?

Aaron Sorkin loves plagiarizing from his favorite writer, Aaron Sorkin, so it wasn't too surprising to be treated by a slew of "how Charlie brought the band together" flashbacks in the final ep.

Well… someone keeps telling you to watch a show, and then you tune in and it's populated by a ton of black people and no white savior anti-hero to root for, you're probably also gonna say fuck you - that is, depending on your personal tastes and expectations for what constitutes "good TV". I'm just saying on the Venn…

What I love about the cookie story is that it's so fucking GROUNDBREAKING - I mean, it's incredibly sophisticated AI derived from living memory and human consciousness… and the first thing we do is monetize and enslave it to make our lives slightly more comfy.

Also, this may sound a little elitist but I think someone who can't handle 4:3 aspect ratio would be much less likely to grasp the complexity and nuance of the show to begin with. Think of all the important films that person HASN'T seen because their viewing preferences are constrained to 16:9 or wider.

If you can't watch The Wire in SD, you don't deserve The Wire.

Me: Remember that show I told you to start watching 10 years ago?

Those are some substantive points. My guess is that the judicial system in this Black Mirror episode (as it is in others) no longer operates in the way we'd expect it to, since modern technology appears to have rendered a traditional investigation, trial, and sentencing hearing obsolete. This isn't TOO far of a…

Again, I'd like to redirect your attention to White Bear. A child murderer forced to confront her horrible acts through the perspective of her victim, over and over again, until she's dead. For the entertainment of others. At the very end of the night, she is provided full knowledge of the fact that the terror, shame,…

Gotta point out that I refer to tamagotchi Joe as a facsimile of Joe's true consciousness - it doesn't change the fact that the copied consciousness is real. If something can feel pain does it make that entity's pain unreal simply because its sentience was produced digitally?

It's an updated version of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter.

Gotta point out that Joe wasn't given a 1000 years - it was way, way, way more. Joe was given 1000 years per minute, over Christmas, which makes it at LEAST 24 hours of real time imprisonment. 60 minutes x 24 hours x 1,000 years = 1.44 MILLION YEARS of psychological torment. Hence the ouroboros insanity at the end of…

And then drown her in a bathtub.

And then Quinn gets captured for several years before returning to the US as a sleeper agent who puts another terrorist baby in Carrie.

Talk about squandering a riveting plotline: I wanna know what the hell happens to all the informants that Haqqani now knows about. And what the hell happens after the CIA loses ALL their assets in Pakistan? Surely that's more interesting material to mine than Carrie's parents and Brody's Rosemary's Baby.

You know, because bi-polar.