Good luck surviving season 6 and season 7… I actually enjoyed rewatching Buffy, but those later seasons.
[The earlier seasons need you to be willing to accept camp, silliness, and terrible lighting and film stock, but are rewarding. The later seasons are less objectionable, but much less rewarding too (other than a…

But the best use of that word in the series is: "No offense, son, but that's some weak-ass thinking. You equivocating like a motherfucker!"

I can understand not wanting to rewatch it, because of the bleakness. But yeah, it absolutely benefits from at least one rewatch.

I agree that VM suffers with the massive seasons. That's a lot of case-of-the-week stories to get through if you're binge-watching. If you get far enough in, though, it's likely that the two season-long mysteries will pull you through the rest, and the final episode of S1 is just fantastic.

I disagree. Season 2 was mostly good, maybe even better than S1 on a week-to-week basis. It's just that the season-long plot didn't work. At all. [I also think S3 was better than awful, but I do take your point!]

My comment was going to be just blandly agreeing with you - I didn't hate the idea of Ted-Robin, but the longer it went on the more impossible (and ruled out) that seemed to become, so it made no sense in the end. And I agree with those saying that the first 4 are worth rewatching - 2 and 3 being the high points (I…

And it's worth watching Aniston in Friends to remember just how blasé the 90s were about nipples. I mean sure, they're always covered, technically speaking. But… they often made their presence known very prominently.

I'd say the third season (which is by far the best, imo) is pretty emotionally brutal.
*thinks back*
Correct that: it's *seriously* emotionally brutal.

True. And also: I too hated Chiana at first, but ended up with her as probably my favourite character. The actress tones down some of the broader 'alien' ticks (while keeping her a bit odd), and the writers find a way to make her work believably as a character, rather than a caricature.

I didn't hate the show, though it has big problems. But… to be fair, once you take the sex and swearing out of LC, The Lion King is way more 'adult' than this was.

Yes and no, I think. They have other lives when the men aren't around. When they are, they're reduced to cheerleaders. Well, other than Trish and Jessica.
I thought that Misty and Claire had more chemistry in their one episode together than either had with Luke. And that's not just because Luke was made out of granite…

Generally it's the views of outsiders that matter when it comes to laws. You can go to jail for having sex with a sibling you only just found out was a sibling, who you'd never even met until adulthood. [not a hypothetical, people have gone to jail for that]. And in this case, they grew up together as children with…

Well, it's legally incest in a lot of countries!

Well, if they ignore the fact that it's incest, everyone will carry on shouting "but it's incest! how has nobody noticed the fact that they're commiting incest! this should probably be an issue for somebody!".
So, as they should, they're addressing the elephant in the room in-show and explaining that although it's…

Presumably Oliver Wendell Holmes by way of Dr Zorba?

The only kind of Irish is Protestant Irish?
I'll assume that you're not intentionally being an incendiary bigot and that you just got confused…

But it's not clear why telling Chinese people:
"fuck off, as a white man I've decided it's not good for you to have me in your film, so I'm not signing. You may not think the film is racist, but as a white man I can tell you that it is. By the way, you need to change your attitudes about racial injustice, I totally…

But the point is: why do Westerners have the right to dictate what THEY want to see in a Chinese film made by Chinese filmmakers for a Chinese audience? Why SHOULD the Chinese film industry put the interests of privileged (usually white) men in (usually America) the West ahead of what Chinese cinemagoers want to see?…

Well, it's true. Acting polite is being polite. Of course, it's possible to be polite while also being a bigot…
[Yes, that's pedantic, but Clark is being portrayed as a pedantic sort of woman, who needs things to be stated explicitly and expects people to say what they mean]

Why would it be illegal, though?
They're not interferring with a crime scene - this is months after the fact now, all the evidence has been catalogued. It's a private house where it happens that a murder suspect lived. Given how many years a court case can last, with appeals and everything, it would be unreasonable to…