" It can be a little uncomfortable, but I always took it more as a result of his specific cultural interest, and maybe a simple produce of its time, than any outright racism"- why is that uncomfortable, or a product of his time? I'd never watch a fantasy story about ancient Kenya and think "why are there no white…

There's some stuff that messes around with Judeo-Christian elements, like Lucifer, but I think other religions are just as happy to use their own elements for storytelling.

Seems bizarre that his list of incredibly white things includes Ender's Game (heavily multicultural cast), Dune (the Fremen seem more or less Arabic), and Dragonball Z (Japanese).

", it should have been pretty clear to her that it was not capable of recognizing food effectively"- should it? What Jian Yang pivoted to was only possible because his food recognition software was so good, it was just specialized (which I'm not sure Laurie was aware of). It's not like he would have told Laurie that…

I don't think those are really the flaws dragging her down on this one, though. For Seefood the whole thing came about thanks to her scam going horribly wrong, and she wasn't passionate enough to ever have any idea what was going on with it, in spite of her job being on the line.

Sure, Ed stole the idea from Monica, but Laurie doesn't know about all that. From her perspective, Ed is the one who found and acquired Seefood,Monica just ineffectually managed it, Ed is clearly the one who looks better as a result of its success.

Well, sure. But Laurie doesn't know that the investment was a bad choice, or that he was tricked into it. What she does know is that he managed to get a company that paid of handsomely.

Ed at least gets the credit for being the one who financed it and is responsible for Raviga's cut of the profits, even though its success was complete luck. Monica could be replaced by a broom with "work on this" taped to it and you'd get the same results.

People die in their early 70s pretty regularly.

To be fair, it's not like she actually seemed to have much to do with its success. Hell, both its demo status and its pivot to dick picks were complete surprises to her, she didn't even know what was going on.

Didn't Richard say he'd get royalties and whatnot? That's reasonable, it's not like he's paying him a sandwich.

And somehow in spite of the unpredictability, it's nice that I can rely on people being reasonably sensible, barring the crazies. Whenever I think "why don't they just X", the characters usually immediately either do that or explain why they can't.

I'm not. It's already got plenty of weird cults, orgies aren't a stretch, and it's far from the only HBO show to have them.

"Creatively it is a bit hard for me to see what there is left for the show to do"- resolve the whole Nick and Jess thing? Show Cece and Schmidt raise a kid?

Hey, at least I enjoy some of NBC's failing shows. I'll benefit from it, even if they don't.

Peter O'Toole had already done tons of work that made him a big name by that point, I'm not sure Helen Mirren was at a point in her career where it would seem unusual for her to take the job.

If CBS got rid of all their bad shows they'd just have Colbert and static.

Peter O'Toole was in the more or less pornographic Caligula, and they just had Rome-themed sets.

Itchy and miserable? I've never been happier than when I had a beard, it felt so natural.

Hey, the Bible is very clearly pro-killing people you dislike. God gets angry if people aren't thorough enough with their genocides. It's a harsh book.