If only one side were being pushed, I'd agree with you, but that's honestly the work of the mindless shows you describe, especially the new 24: Legacy, which is about as black-and-white as it comes.

What do we know that the characters don't? I would be shocked if Carrie and Quinn don't connect the dots between the Man Next Door's late night excursion and the Medina truck, but to be fair, that literally happened in the last two minutes of the show. Quinn didn't know there was a bomb, and whereas Carrie was a…

It's certainly goes further than any false-flag operation I can think of (unless you buy into all the conspiracy theories), but it's hardly ridiculous. I agree that it's the most obvious scenario, however, and therefore the one that's most likely to be disproven over the next few episodes.

So just to be clear, there are regular killings of innocent Muslims in France?

I think he'd rather die trying to be the man he was than live as the man he is.

Yeah, in that light, i can understand why Joshua thinks that "Sekou and Carrie’s conversation about her bona fides is one of the weirdest scenes this show has ever done." But if that's the thesis statement of the writers, I'm OK with it: after all, Carrie also makes a point of talking to Sekou about his use of…

I admire the fact that just as "24" (2001) increasingly became a response to 9/11, so too has "Homeland" (after burning past the plot of the show it was based on) increasingly become a response to the culture propagated by "24" and now continued by like "Quantico," which fetishizes terrorism, or "Designated Survivor,"…

"It almost feels like Homeland is turning from a thriller that’s mostly about Carrie into a quieter ensemble drama about terrorism and issues facing the intelligence community."

In short, "The Good Place" is a thirteen-episode version of that old Got Milk? commercial. ;)

"Always Sunny" isn't a show about nothing. It's a show about how ridiculous awful things are; at many times, satire of the highest order.

Well, how else are you going to protect them?!

I know that they're gimmick episodes, but I still love "CharDeeMacDennis: The Game of Games" and "The Gang Saves the Day." Those tell you everything you need to know (and more) about these guys.

Which is why the callback to it in Season 11 is so amazing.

Gun Fever Too: Still Hot is another great episode when it comes to flip-flopping on hot-button issues.

No room for American Crime, or did I miss it?

I replied to r0ckypants above. I can concede that it might not fly through television censors and wind up on a network like FX (are we sure that's what happened?), but I can totally buy it popping up on the Internet and being distributed among the fandom. I also think that, if such an event had really happened, there…

Sorry, I meant "Grizzly Man," the Herzog documentary about Timothy Treadwell. In 2003, Herzog respectfully did not air audio of Treadwell being killed by a bear (although he did film shots of himself listening to the audio), but I'd argue that our culture has become far more depraved since then. (Heck, consider that…

I didn't even see that you'd posted this as I was composing my response, but, yes. Right on.

"Shooter" was pulled because it's not very good, which made it all the more insensitive in the light of mass shootings. "Law & Order" makes the same call on a regular basis, and yet it keeps churning out episodes, and viewers keep tuning in, and you have to suspect there's a reason for it.

"Responsible" network? I don't know how, in this day and age, you actually believe that there's a network out there that *wouldn't* air such footage, or believe that people wouldn't tune into it. Think about execution videos, or the increasingly violent/cathartic horror movies out there. Think about the fact that…