I don't see any way the ending isn't ambiguous and open to some degree of interpretation, in keeping with every other aspect of the show. It will only be "controversial" in the sense that people will a) debate the meaning, or b) feel cheated by lack of obvious closure. I'm sure there are still people tuning in who…

I think the context of Don pushing back against turning the news into a ratings circus is important, but so is the basic fact that Don is responsible for what he puts on the air. It's his show. If he foresees negative consequences for anyone he puts on the air and does it anyway, he's personally culpable if/when those…

The older I get the more I love this one: http://asset-7.soup.io/asse…

I'll take the one where Calvin is complaining to his mom about some trivial bullshit, and she rolls her eyes and tells him "Life could be a lot worse, Calvin." To which he replies, "Yeah well life could be a lot better too!"

I'm not familiar with the rest of this guy's career, but I am interested in what the few people who have seen it think about 'The Divide.' I am pretty positive, but the show seems to have such high ambitions it's hard to determine where it falls on the grading curve – it wants to be 'The Wire,' and falls well short of…

Seems to me the huge (long-term) potential of their vision vs. the (short-term) realities of the market is what makes it a compelling dynamic, as long as failure is an option. Obviously there is no market for a product that doesn't yet exist. But just as obviously Cameron is on to something – if someone actually had…

Exactly the opposite experience for me, I couldn't care less about computers (or business, in general) but I was invested in the story by the end. Very impressed that they managed to make a trip to a computer convention in 1983 feel like a legitimate climax with stakes.

@avclub-80bc853838cd47a7af0904d054d90cc4:disqus Did you watch S1 all the way through? I gave up on it after the first 2-3 episodes, but decided to give it a second chance on DVR and it won me over.

The way the first season ended, I can't imagine a season two that isn't centered on Donna and Cameron in the startup biz. (While only occasionally dropping in on Joe's progress smashing telescopes with a baseball bat.)

I just assume that they are religious people waiting for the rapture to take them away.

I can believe the girl we've seen from the beginning is underage. The trigger-happy girl we were just introduced to in the most recent episode, she looks older.

I think it's pretty good, so far. It's a slow build, for sure – the pilot alone has at least three eye-rolling moments I can recall off the top of my head – and it's pretty bleak. As others have said, it's certainly not aiming for a taut narrative. But collectively the episodes add up. I've enjoyed each installment…

I find Hardwick grating, and a big part of it with me is that his "voice of the web" persona seems very forced and opportunistic. This is a subjective memory, admittedly, but from what I recall he was much more muted and bland as host of 'Singled Out' in the nineties. Relatively speaking he seems now to be trying…

Imagine getting an advanced degree in English from Yale and then having to read the scripts for Californication.

Coming from the opposite end of the spectrum, I couldn't agree more about the importance of passing on culture to your kids. My parents are intelligent, decent, supportive people but when it comes to music, movies, etc. I don't think they even had any tastes to pass on. Books in the house were mostly vague…

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True Blood.

"If we could just manufacture them, we would…"

"Nor have I ever heard "prototype" used in the context of human beings…"

So far nobody here thinks anything about this is OK.