Yeah, that's like getting the attendance award in school. You may not be smart, but damn it, your presence in the area where learning occurs is impeccable, and that's worth something I suppose.

It's curious because Lucas seems to have as little interest in the economic/political stuff as we do, given how boring the writing and filmmaking are in those scenes, and yet he foregrounds it in the story SO MUCH. It's almost as though he felt he needed to do it, and not even as filler to eat up time because the…

The reason why they make them is that they want to be more than the network that brings you Braves games. Remember when AMC was American Movie Classics, and was regularly mocked for playing lots of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" reruns and Michael J. Fox movies? Now it's "The Network That Brought You Breaking Bad, Mad Men…

Funny you should mention that. One of the main people involved in this show, Rob Long, actually cut his teeth on late-period Cheers. He's also a minor right-wing pundit, which accounts for all that "hilarious" racial humor.

DON'T DO IT DUDE!