But the whole idea with Seinfeld is that it didn't ask you to care about the personal lives of the characters. If this show works, it's at least partially because you're invested in whether this affair or whatever blows up the friend dynamic. Seems to me like that would be great for them. And society.

"I can't see why they would want to hang out together anyway?"

For me, this is the latest in a series of shows where I root for a sub-section of the main characters to get as far away from the rest of them as possible, for their own sakes. This includes the few who actually seem like decent human beings, along with any group outsider who clearly knows how horrible everyone is.

"Why would Sam want to be friends with Lisa?"

Also, the reference to "creepy" old men…I get that that's the natural reaction, but it kind of seems like they're minding their own business until these women just sort of insert their way in and see how much they can get the men to give them…for fun? But hey, at least these characters don't spend every other scene of…

Friends From College is a show about a group of people who seem to hate each other. And I agree with them.

Okay, so I watched this, and one of the guys says the N-word. I saw it as a joke, had no issue with it…but where's the outcry? Where's the call for Netflix to pull the special?

THOUSANDS of retweets? It's a revolution! How could HBO not take their cues from something that has THOUSANDS of retweets? Don't they know how hard it is to retweet something? And how much thought has to go into tweeting something in the first place? Shaking my DH.

The same cannot be said for Christianity in 2017, at least not to the extent it can be said for Islam. And that's something he's said a number of times—that if he was around during, say, the Inquisition, he'd be directing disproportionate criticism of Christianity. Also, that all religions are stupid and dangerous,…

He's just started writing for the AVClub. He'll get better.

I haven't heard him do that, but would wonder what the context would be. Either way, I'm not saying I'd agree with every single thing he said, but am at least glad he addresses an issue that most other people doing his job seem happy to try to sidestep

He has the audacity to point out that some Muslim countries aren't nice to their citizens.

…Mom?

Of course not, but when a large share of the countries that lead the league in human rights violations and oppression of women in particular are Muslim countries, that's a pattern worth examining

It's not Islamophobic to point out that in today's world, a disproportionate number of the countries at the bottom of the human rights list are Islamic theocracies

"a WHITE man!"

Completely agree. It's one of the main reasons I like Maher, actually, and most of the points he makes about Islam aren't, it seems, things that liberals would disagree with but *would rather not get into*

He's not wrong

All those HBO advertisers won't stand for this.

I completely agree that SNL could have created a funny version of Michelle Obama that wasn't necessarily a slavish impression of her (something they also could have done with Obama, whom they never really hit much of a vein with). Certainly, Janet Reno in real life was not like Janet Reno on SNL, to name one example.…