Kinda my main complaint for the show. I get it though. I think the death of disco and the rise of hip hop will end up making a metaphor for some tragic love story. And if the show is going to try to have a bigger focus, I have no problem with them blending all the genre stories together because there is this…

Just watched the episode. My problem with a lot of music themed pop culture entries has been the lack of queer culture and its influence on everything. There are a lot of modern music forms that you simply don't get without gay black dudes from New York, Chicago, and Detroit. Seeing that gay culture depicted on this…

The problem here is that your proposed purpose for BLM only works in a vacuum. If everyone thinks like that then nothing can move because inclusion is the inherent solution. At some point you become no different than the Sander's supporters that sideline racial equality for talk of class equality. There has to be an…

Is it just me or did Krista have some weird accent slips?

My problem with the current strain of leftist activism has always been its narcissism. And I'm not saying this as some guy sitting on his ass. I'm saying this as a black man and union activist. In comparison to other minorities and other civil rights issues, black people have tremendous power to monopolize a…

I agree. If you make Bayley a bad guy then you run the risk of the "one bad apple doesn't spoil the bunch" scenario. Which is exactly the argument the corporation was angling for in trying to get Caputo to hang Bayley out to dry. If you make a bad guy in a "sea of bad guys" commit a bad act… then the solution is "hire…

Ha, I've actually always been a big proponent of The Shield as one of the best pilots ever. Especially placed in context of what it means to the entire plot arc. Most pilots are showcases, but this one is the corner stone of show's story.

Let's say you're someone that pirates TV shows and doesn't pay attention to their actual air dates…

Dammit, I can't believe I didn't even put 2 and 2 together on this with regard to Bayley's flashback.

I never considered Jawn to be purely Philly slang while I was growing up. Joints turns to Jaunts turns to Jawns. I just considered it the natural progression of that weird ass mid-atlantic drawl. Kinda like how DC people manage to make "yo" sound like "Yaow".

Nice little time capsule. Hearing her talk about trying to finish filming before it got dark on "Murder Ave" is definitely an early 90's throwback. Because now Myrtle Ave is like the dictionary definition of gentrification.

And to make it clear, Yeezus was wack, College Dropout was for nerds, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is Kanye's only classic.

White people, yall need to stop gassing Kanye up.

They certainly are mutually exclusive categories when you're talking about some guy named Casper Van Diem.

Yes and no. It's really that the show gets a bunch of people patting themselves on the back for noticing the obvious twist but while they're doing that they miss all the other obvious twists. So yeah, you're on the right track with your instincts… but not really.

Remember that time where Scarlett Johansen becomes a kung fu master?

I was being facetious. The implication is this idea that MLK and the civil rights movement ended in some kumbaya moment is a fairy tale [white] America tells itself. It really ended with an assassination, inner-city rioting, and the rise of Nixon.

Well, there's an enormous difference between "toxcitity" and the "ban all muslims guy" becoming the leader of a major political party. There's fascism and there's someone making you feel bad about twitter. Not everything's equivalent.

Meh.

Part of it seems to be that the show is niche but in a way that lots of people writing about the show seemed to be oblivious to. So there is this disconnect between what the show meant to people covering the show and what the show meant to the average cable TV viewer. You have this show that was not only about…