They keep describing Simon's work as "Dickensian" because of a well-known quote from a scene in season five of The Wire during which the editor of the Baltimore Sun prizes a patronizing, white-liberal (and, not incidentally, fabricated) examination of the 'Dickensian aspect' of urban poverty over journalistic ethics…

Let me get this straight: The reviewer is offended by something that doesn't offend you, therefore they are wrong and should not review the show. Logic!

BECAUSE HE HAS A VERY IMPORTANT OPINION. I thought the use of disparaging buzzwords (juvenile! sophomoric!) made that evident.

Thanks for the condescension. Also, thank you for speaking collectively, so that I would recognize your thoughts as representative of everyone, instead of simply you.

WAIT. These are the recordings for his son?! That's what he wants his son to hear?

Is everyone just collectively ignoring the sloppy, unexplained voiceover? Does Velcoro just narrate his inner monologue into a voice recorder as he drives around in semi-retirement?

I interpreted that bit of dialogue as a self-deprecating joke about how even the most-informed depictions of hacker culture (if one can apply a label to such a nebulous concept) will inevitably fall short or devolve into parody. I believe the phrase "mess up" was used in the typical pejorative sense - every generation…

Erik, I know this negates that Elvis bit you shoehorned into the piece, but that's a Conway Twitty impersonator, not the The King.

Are you more consistent than the New Yorker? Aren't you just employing the diaereses incorrectly? "yo" and "eo" aren't English diphthongs to my knowledge and are nearly always pronounced separately (when "y" is used as a vowel, "yo" is not pronounced as one syllable; it is when "y" is a consonant, but then it is not a…