I don't think Alonzo being hard working means he's a self-loathing Mexican, or that the show is in any way attempting to suggest that. I think the point is that Alonzo is terribly afraid of how other people will judge him and his kids if he gives off even the slightest appearance of fitting into a negative Mexican…

You had me until Josh Holloway. The problem is, Idris Elba is so ridiculously charismatic, that whether you go white, black, pink, purple or green, it's going to be difficult to find ANYONE who can match him. Holloway is pretty, but doesn't have nearly the depths as an actor that Elba does.

I checked it out before Netflix turned it out of the free movie queue at the end of last month. It holds up extremely well. It's aspirations are fairly modest compared to Raging Bull, but it perfectly achieves what it set out to do.

I remember seeing photos of them out together, including a few of the two of them out with Madonna. I also recall reading a funny story about how the two of them were hanging out in ATL in the mid-80s maybe, and they were at a bar that was having a celebrity lookalike contest. They both entered, pretending to be two…

Hollywood loves a showboat.

I always felt like there was a decent, dark thriller in there about corporate greed and ambition. In my head, the ambitious Hutton character gets a crazy secretary who kills off all his professional competition without him knowing it, until the last obstacle is Faye Dunaway, and he has the opportunity to save her but…

The chemistry between Hutton and Chaykin (and really, that whole cast) was about as good as it gets.

No Kinsey? That was a great movie and an interesting role for him. Probably some very interesting days with actors walking around in various states of undress.

We'll,no harm may have come to Sally, but I found that home invasion extremely frightening and unsettling. There was an undercurrent of menace there, if no actual violence. It was a violation of a safe space, even if there was no physical harm.

I thought the show deserved at least an A-/B+. The characters are all well rounded, the story unfolded in an intriguing way, the acting was uniformly excellent. We'll see if it makes more than pat observations about race, but so far I find it promising.

It's definitely not them if you look at the photos themselves. To me, it's just them idealizing pictures of happy healthy interracial couples. It's a great detail and one that could be read a lot of ways - are they wishing for better times? Doing it because they've been victimized by racism? Avoiding reality? All…

Describing it as "the seams showing" is perfect. That is exactly the problem. You can see all the influences but it never quite gels into its own thing. Leverage avoided this but was also flukey in the sense that its cast had an amazing chemistry out of the gate, and I'm not feeling that here.

We'd have to agree to disagree on Parker Hardison being some of the best stuff on the show. But for me, romatic relationships are usually the least successful part of any TV show. I'd much rather see a witty episode with a con that suprises me and great team interaction than one focused on a couple.
I agree that…

Leverage had a lot of problems at the end but Nate being dark wasn't one of them. They made a huge mistake pairing up 4/5 of the cast and it seemed like most of the last 2 seasons were spent ripping off other shows/movies. Leverage does the Office. Leverage does 24. Leverage does Man on Fire. At some point int…