So You Think You Can Dance? Or is that not considered a "reality" competition show?

Gee, I wonder why Karen—who killed a man in supposed self-defense last season, and who has cheered the "half-measures" of the black-suited man who saved her throughout the first season—would find herself looking for goodness and redemption in Frank Castle's brand of vigilantism. I just can't think of a single reason.

How does Leyner compare to Robbins?

Hence me saying that the brilliant title opening probably doesn't qualify *because the show itself* isn't considered brilliant.

I guess "Shameless" is left out here because you guys don't like the show itself?

You gotta get to that boy's soul.

Sorry; I thought you'd like this one more that you did.

I don't want to spoil anything, but if you liked "Dennis & Dee Go On Welfare" and "The Gang Recycles Their Trash," you are going to love next week's episode.

Frank's funeral, sure, but it turns out it's just a tax-dodge scam.

Or, you know, "The Gang Saves the Day."

The only Frank I want is the Frank from "Frank Reynolds' Little Beauties."

No, I don't work at FXX. Just another critic who also happens to enjoy lurking in comment sections. Not going to post a link here, but you can find my review of the season fairly easily.

I've watched it several times now, and it holds up—even against the original. Knowing the twist takes a little bit of the sting out of it, but it's still great. And I can tell you, the next few episodes are stellar—#2 if you liked the meta-antics, #3 if you like their parodies, and #4 and #5 if you like their satire.

Sure, and if I were in Matan's shoes, I would have called a witness to the stand from one of the various pharma vendors in question to see what their practices were in distributing powerful sedatives and anesthetics to surgeons. I would have looked for a difference between the packaging of said drugs, or the quantity…

Asked and answered already: it would give me no pause at all. Think of it from my perspective: my child is sick. Do I bring my child to the professional with a 100% success rate or the one with a 95% success rate? Do I hire the sketchy lawyer who helps murderers to get off (and who can surely do the same for innocent…

It would give me no pause whatsoever. Are you going to throw Stephen King in jail because of the awful things that he fantasizes about his novels? (That might actually make a great King novel.) The fact of the matter is that there's thinking about something and then there's doing something, and the conspiracy charge…

Because it isn't actually a crime, and I'm a libertarian sort of guy, the worst I can do *is* look at it as a private kink. The fact that he hides it already indicates that he views it as shameful; I'm not sure why that isn't enough. After all, how does one work on ceasing something that they haven't actually done?

Yeah, I'm consistently against people being fired for semi-private Tweets and Facebook statuses, too. The idea there is that we're not allowed to articulate our own personal thoughts, which is something that I think should be punished only if it specifically impacts the type of business you're in—i.e., it's a…

Sure, and if the guy were openly posting his views, I'd agree that he'd have fully earned his karmic and social punishment. But you're really leaning toward some backward and puritanical thinking here if you think he ought to be shamed out of a livelihood simply because you don't agree with his private thoughts. It's…

All I'm saying is that if you want to punish it, then make it a crime. But definitely look at the statistics. If talking about pedophilia lowers the rate of actual real-world violence, maybe you should rethink your stance on it. Let's be clear, too: I'm not against monitoring someone who writes terrible things online.…