Yeah, I wondered how conscious or subconscious the impulse was meant to be, especially in connection with Gene's apparent panic attack in the teaser. I also wonder if we're meant to see a connection between Kim's sudden OCD and Chuck's apparently psychosomatic EM sensitivity — if Jimmy is going to have to confront the…

The punctuation is just an excuse for her to hem and haw. The real crisis she's dealing with is that once she submits the finished documentation to Mesa Verde without acknowledging that she knows what Jimmy did to win her the account, she's officially complicit in his actions. She's not actually deciding between a…

"They brand you a star." The writers are pretty genius at writing lyrics that work both as Kyle intended them and as blatant Nazi references.

I've mentioned it before, but the thing I think Baldwin captures that none of the other impressionists do is the fact that Trump isn't in on the joke. Hammond played him as a self-amused shit-stirrer who was running for president for a laugh. Atamanuik's Trump is prone to tossing off wisecracks and blurting…

That's a good point. PvOJ doesn't resemble any of Murphy's other work as much as it resembles the docudrama films of his collaborators Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon). It's pretty clear that they were the principal creative force behind PvOJ, at least from a…

It was definitely an issue with Mad Men, which is probably my favorite thing of all things but had such a transitory interest in dramatizing the African American experience that its most prominent black character just sort of disappears in the final run of episodes while every other secretary and minor character from…

Jesus Christ, I didn't know how much the world needed Toby Huss as a screaming prima donna Frank Sinatra.

No problem. I can't blame anyone for how they read my original intent, since my post was pretty vague. Basically, I was at work and I didn't have great sources and doing links in Disqus is clumsy, but I wanted to jump in quickly in the hopes of slowing down the outrage train in case it turned out to be a hoax.

Oh, hey, I'm being talked about in here . . .

Back in January I caught a two-episode preview of this at Sundance. Weirdly, they showed episode 1 and then, like, episode 6 or something, with just a few orienting scenes from the intervening episodes in between, so it was hard to tell how everything is going to fit together. But it's definitely top-shelf network…

He is, but in a more convoluted way than that. I believe the Twitter account was also a recently created burner — but he then linked the burner phone he was using to access it to his non-burner cloud account, which included, among other things, a picture of him holding his own driver's license.

They actually don't have to go for indifference, because they have the dumbass's DMs in which he admits to other Twitter users that he's trying to cause Eichenwald to have a seizure and he hopes he dies.

Here in Chicago they advertise Second City classes as something everyone should be doing — aspiring comedians, kids, corporate team-building groups — and I know a bunch of people from copywriters to nurses who've gone through one course or another. I imagine in L.A. it's probably much the same, but with an added…

Well, except the recursions make no sense. Marty's actions in the past can't simultaneously cause changes in the course of history and bring about events that occurred in his original, unchanged history.

Oooor was he trying to hide his pedophilic leanings by directing sex trafficking victims to the authorities and exposing their abusers on the pages of the New York Times? Yeah, probably not, because that doesn't make any sense.

Hear, hear. To me, The Leftovers is two different shows mashed together — a breathtaking and subtle character drama, and a bullshit "We're so edgy and deep!" jerk-a-thon — and the messianic shit with Kevin is the worst of the latter.

It's a tough premise, absolutely, but I think it can be handled well. Indeed, Angel dealt with a similar idea pretty successfully — Wolfram & Hart representing institutional evil in the same way that the First represents personal evil. In fact, I think the best scene of any Whedon series is where the W&H premise is…

The real problem with Kennedy is that she was nothing but a girlfriend for Willow. Like, that was literally the entire point of the character's existence, and everything about her (her "cooler than the other Potentials" attitude, the fact that she was just barely young enough to still be in the running to be Slayer)…

It almost hurts to contemplate how much better that episode of Angel would've been if Xander had been the emissary from Slayer HQ rather than Andrew. Then you'd have a character with a long, antagonistic history with Angel and Spike to play off of, rather than someone who pines after Spike like a sad little puppy.…

Yep. The writers kept falling back on the the idea that, ooh, the First can trick or rattle people by looking like their closest friends and deadliest enemies, when its truly fearsome power is that it knows secret things about you that only your closest friends and deadliest enemies knew.