Me too. This seems to be the network version of that show.

I didn't laugh once. I almost chuckled once, but I don't even recall why. I will give it another 2-3 episodes but its a rough start, imo. I ADORED the Bernie Mac Show, and for my money that's the bar to reach here. Yeah, its a different show, time, cast, etc., but this show is obviously trying to mine the same ground.…

I would be endlessly fascinated if McKenzie played Gordon like Byrne played Tom in Miller's Crossing! All those wheels turning behind the eyes? Yes, please!

That's the director and the script's fault. Having people have conversations within a quarter inch of each other's noses is horrible. And having McKenzie act in a single gear doesn't do him any favors either — just being earnest does not a character make.

I would have lost a leg about four years ago if it weren't for antibiotics. I fear the day we've made their potency extinct.

And the subsequent drag out of the doorway! HAHA!

I had pretty bad childhood asthma. They probably would have had me inhaling humidified mercury or something.

Boy '#9' might end that streak for him.

Yet he's still clueless enough to mouth off to Nucky like he's actually running anything.

Its this year's fascination for HBO shows to waste time on unnecessary and unrewarding flashbacks (see 'True Blood' for other examples).

Welcome back Mickey! You're still able to sit with death two inches from your face and still not recognize it. I love his familiar tone with Nucky, as we all know he can slap Mickey (literally) at any time. Also, the kid (#9) just might be the death of Mickey — finally.

I liked the ending here and it won't color my love for the rest of the film. Though, you do have a point: I can never watch 'The Prestige' again without scowling the entire way through the goddamn thing thanks to that for shit ending.

Also, as Core Concept mentions, Nadia isn't 'okay'. It's obvious that Eric, the nutjob she dated for a while, was at some level attractive to her for some amount of time. It's fair to assume the dread/repulsion she has for him now came after some very hard days and nights with him. (Did they meet in the hospital she…

I would only doubt Rapace's. I thought the others were totally convincing.

Better than a C+, by almost every measure.

The movie is more of a character study than a crime/action movie. It's a noir, which is why I find it odd that Dowd is so heavily concentrating on plot rather than atmosphere and performance. The performances are, to a person, fantastic. I really enjoyed the cat and mouse the characters play with each other, with…

I beg to differ. Fiction absolutely has no such barrier as to what can happen. Science fiction attempts to have some grounding in things that could happen with some base in reality, no matter how faint. The possibility of 2% of the planet's inhabitants disappearing in a second into thin air has NO basis in science…

Ray Donovan's wife, Abbey, is a MUCH worse mother than Laurie. Just saying.

That's 'science' fiction? Sounds like pure fiction to me, not one based in any science i've ever heard of.

Thats fine too. This version of Lansky seems to be interested in more than just ONE vice, right?