Tylenol is especially terrifying because (1) it just gets tossed into any number of other prescriptions, (2) it's a horrible, slow, and pretty much guaranteed way to die once you overdose, and (3) the side effect progression basically goes nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, horrible death.

I think the rationale has to do with rules in the bible about consuming
blood specifically (that's also a part of kosher practices, though in
very different ways.*) It's not about opposition to medicine or
anything.

And he wrote a whole bunch of songs for random other people he liked, a lot of which ended up making them famous/being one of their most memorable songs. So it's not like he was throwing around mediocre songs and keeping the good ones for himself either.

He was only in his fifties, and as far as we know his health wasn't that bad. I mean, it's kind of dumb not to have a will when you are that wealthy and own the rights to massive amounts of Prince's music. But it's not that hard to imagine that someone wouldn't have really gotten around to it yet, or told themselves…

The Kabuki thing is about right from what I know: the black outfit is what the stagehands would wear. So everyone in the audience knows not to see them (the brain is a strange thing) and then suddenly out of "nowhere" someone appears and cuts the throat or a major character or something and it's shocking.

They're not making their decisions by a consensus driven democratic process, so yeah there is going to be a mastermind. If it's not Nobu then it's a boss he has that we haven't seen and that, as best I can remember, we haven't heard about either.

Just because it has a lot of hours doesn't mean it had the narrative space to tell the stories it was trying to tell, though. The bad bits of both storylines look exactly like what happens when you don't have enough space.

A far reaching global organization of secretive assassins from Asia all led by an inscrutable mastermind with evil goals?

The yellow peril is a way older thing than the '90s stuff, though that was pretty bad too. When that phrase gets used (especially in this context) it's talking about the good old fashioned 1920s stuff, which absolutely one hundred percent looked like that. This is straight from Sax Rohmer, Emperor of Yellow Peril…

It would be the greatest thing ever. Also a rival organization of poorly dressed obese people should get involved.

An antagonist doesn't have to be a villain in the fullest sense of the term. And often they're much better antagonists if they aren't.

Eventually you start to wonder if there are people there who don't work for organized crime.

Ninja cult? I mean, it's still a total mystery how it works but it's not like the other ninjas are there because of how great the benefits package is.

The "F" grades get reserved for things which are truly, genuinely horrible and, thus, awesome fun. The D grades mean "awful but not awful enough that awful turns into fun, just normal awful."

And this kind of cliched Sava Peril writing really is problematic and the planet earth could do a much better job as far as this goes.

It's probably not coincidental that black people get called "black", as opposed to 'darker brown that use but occasionally not really it's not obvious from outside our cultural norms'. "The Dark Continent" wasn't a reference to the amount of sunshine it got, either.

It's especially wince inducingly bad if you've watched the original House of Cards, which is amazing. And also each season is like four episodes long and actual politics is involved, not just the occasional hand-waving at the fact that they are actually passing laws, or pursuing policy agendas or something.

Counterpoint: David Brooks.

A lengthy fight scene where he's going "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP" the entire time would have been amazing.

Maybe he didn't think he did?