I was just thinking of that. Diana Rigg was the saving grace of that movie. Maybe they could figure out a way to incorporate the Liebeslieders this time around — not to mention The Miller's Son.

More specifically about philosophical divides — Season 5 has old Hollywood/Broadway diva Jinkx Monsoon against showgirl/pageant queen Roxxxy, and Season 7 has a bunch of closed-minded old pageant queens who go on about professionalism and don't understand other forms of drag.

Seasons 2 and 4 are the classics, and there was a huge amount of talent in Season 8.

Oh yes, I've definitely read that article. Some people have a really difficult time with that concept.

Indeed. The death of a single character will never be able to cover every facet of the issue. They really set this one up skillfully.

I love that you used bad seeds as the metaphor. It's as if everyone collectively forgot the meaning of the whole proverb that people keep referencing when they write off the problem of police killings as "a few bad apples." "One bad apple spoils the bunch" speaks perfectly to the other side of the argument, but people…

I wouldn't disagree with that.

One of the most important things accomplished by having the audience sympathizing with Bayley is showing how it really is an institutional problem. It would have been all too easy to brush it aside as a problem of "a few bad apples" if Humphrey or Piscatella himself had done it. There are so many contributing factors…

I'm going to have to disagree on several counts. Season 3 is my favorite — in my opinion, it has even more profound character work with some deeply meaningful episodes (Remedial Chaos Theory, Pillows and Blankets, Virtual Systems Analysis) and some super fun and on-point genre parodies (Regional Holiday Music, Basic…

Not quite sure if this fits in with the premise of the article, but the obvious example for me is Season 4 of Community. I watch the series every few months, but I don't even own Season 4. It has effectively no redeeming value. There was a fairly high likelihood that the show was going to be cancelled after Season 4;…

S4 definitely has some of the best one-off episodes, but S5 as a whole was so brilliantly crafted. Easily the most satisfying seasonal arc for my money. The plot is paced perfectly, and the funny episodes and the tragic episodes land at just the right time for the narrative, and it really digs in deep as to what it…

That's what I thought until I read the above comment. The song's melody puts more emphasis on the second syllable of "into" than you'd normally hear when the word is spoken, so it just sounds like "in two."

I wasn't a huge fan of season 3 of OItNB, but I think it's also useful to compare how Doggett's and Sansa's rapes were portrayed. In OItNB, the narrative was about Doggett and how everything affected her, and you really saw that in the moment when they kept the camera on her face. By contrast, when Sansa was raped by…

I think there's one in Chicago, so not horribly far away! Depending on where in Wisconsin you are, of course. I haven't been to it yet, though …

Amazing how easy it is to make such an odious purchase from our stores. Drinking orange juice after using toothpaste is just an abomination.

Yeah, didn't get that far in the books.

I was surprised by those, as well — Margaery in particular, who is one of the most brilliant players in the game (of thrones). The High Sparrow definitely made my blood boil because of how instantly recognizable his sort of threat is (considering how I grew up, some moments felt very familiar) and the paucity of…

That's all you care about Walder Frey's death? A 3?!?! I was cheering at that moment. He is easily one of the most hated characters on the show — I believe only Joffrey and Ramsay are unquestionably more universally despised. He was one of the most important people on Arya's kill list, since he was responsible for the…

And the last gay/bi male regular on the show.

Possibly. But yeah, I think this is one of the main reasons representation is such a problem in the movies. They go for a straight white male main character and try to fill in the diversity with supporting roles that don't get major arcs because they only have about two hours for the main plot. Look at Guardians of…