The only issue I had with this episode was the bad editing/decision process of having mikey call Hale's phone. There is no way with this show's style they let Hale miss that call all together because she's dead at the end of the episode. This show isn't about throwing 90 degree curves, it can surprise you but it…

Arguably Markham is probably worth upwards of 50-60 million, perhaps much more. 10 million was a sizable investment but not the entire fortune. If anything it has been established that Markham does really love Hale that much, so he would be willing to part with it knowing that Boyd is a small time scum bucket (and…

First was Mikey's gun I believe, the second was Wynn's, then Wynn's knife. But I could be wrong on the initial one being Mikey's gun. Still, that's not an overwhelming number if you think you're dealing with criminals and just carry without a second thought.

Nah, I highly doubt Boon is anything more than one more menacing henchman without a hairs chance of killing Raylan. If anything, he truly represents the dark mirror image of what Raylan could have been, the hired killer without remorse who has only a few end goals, kill and have fun while doing it. We've never…

Well there goes Lazer team's indiegogo record. Odd it wasn't mentioned in the list though I'm not sure it would be considered in the same status as 'indie' since technically Fox Searchlight has already greenlit the project and this indiegogo campaign is about PR more than actually finding 2 Million dollars. If…

It's a different animal from 1 monthly fee of $8 vs. daily ad revenue. The value per play on TBS is probably north of 150K times X number of times a day X times of week = a vast sum. They more than likely cycle through the entire show twice a year much like the Simpsons were doing a block hour on most networks I've…

Not really, if you look at what you're paying for vs. what you're getting it's a terrible deal. 90M for lets say a 5 year lease on Seinfeld amortized is only a fraction of the value House of Cards will be worth in the ensuing decades. Original programming is the real value in today's market because as Friends and…

Pretty much, Popeye was actually fairly 'adult' for his time period and dealt with a great deal of issues (including some nationalism, racism, and other 'isms' of his day). It was always simplistic in practical formula but he could easily be updated and the Robin Williams' film is still a stellar piece of how to…

That's depressing if only because Popeye is a relatively simple concept but he can be such an enjoyable expedition into simple action and entertainment with a surprisingly positive message (eating healthy). I do wish he would return to Dexter's Laboratory….it's only been 12 years since it ended (and almost 20 since…

That's a setup for another episode, it's such a throwaway moment designed to make you ask questions. I'm excited to see the inevitable conclusion of Susan Strong's head circuitry.

I'm not going to comment on food quality, it seems to be in the 'Chuck E. Cheese' region of processed but acceptable. The point I was making was how so many folks are just blowing the place off as hokum, but that's the FUN of hokum! It's stupid, it's silly, it is meant to be completely as dumb as you think it is…and…

The experience seems to be intentionally hokey/corny but that's the charm of a place like that. It's intentionally not taking itself seriously, you go there as a kid and it's just bedlam. Even as an adult it's just harmless fun. Reading through some of the comments I get that the place isn't for the AVC type…

It's strong cynicism plus AVC tries to remain largely apolitical with a strong-left leaning bias on worldview (socially liberal, economically indifferent…largely the standard of American media discussion).

Right after I wrote that I remembered that show, it was a tragedy to lose Ritter because it had something and if he lived would have probably gone on for a few more seasons than it did. Still that show started AFTER this episode of Futurama and I guess millenials know her best for that role and SoA but at the time…

This is the very definition of why I love and live history, why I teach it and why I support it so. I've saved the video for use in classes when we discuss why we need history (and some old things) to appreciate why we replace some, keep some, and just find we need one and other.

Married with Children had just been off the air 3 years at the time and while Katey Sagal has gone on to do Futurama & Sons of Anarchy she was famous for that role more than anything else. Even now it's really a three-way split depending on what age you are and which show you preferred. So at the time it made…

Falling behind on my DVR watching this episode suffers from the fact that Kevin Hart relies on 'angry outrage' humor that doesn't hold up in the long-term. It's funny within the framework of the moment, the exhilaration of yelling and wondering why nobody else sees the issue. But his monologue made me dislike him as…

Are you really going to put St. Vincent's weird staccato dance movements in the same category as Sia's interpretative dancers? It's not that one is worse than the other (and both serve their purpose of expression well enough) but Sia's dancers have a fairly visible storytelling style in their body language. St.…

This season is setting up so many twists and turns but has yet to position Raylan anywhere but on his way out. The fact that he's actually acting like a responsible officer of the law seems to infuriate his superiors but nobody seems to realize that Raylan doesn't want to die in Harlan County when he's this close to…

Have you ever lived in an expansive TV market? A bank robbery, no matter how fanciful in a town 60 miles outside of the main city market (Lexington in this case) would be barely on the radar. Really for the level of public activity that Harlan County has received in 6 years it would seem like a relatively violent…