It's actually quite brilliant. Years ago America WAS united by television…it truly WAS what united us. Around the dinner table. Around the water cooler. Around our town. HBO puts out good stuff. Why shouldn't we unite around television again?

"watching Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston play lovers", is frankly, embarrassing. Not because they are gay characters in love, but because these to very obviously, very famous actors are straight. In this day and age of Transparent on amazon, it's the gay equivalent of Blackface stereotyping. Shuffle Along? Waterson is…

And how utterly brilliant it is having Macdowell - Clockwork's Alex playing Pembridge! ("It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now to give it the perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig van!"

And The Who died with Kieth Moon.

Sorry - disagree. Lots of kids I know really love this song. It's quite charming. Not a word typically used for rock'n'roll, but there you go.

OMG - Elephants Memory really, really sucked.

I'm kind of late the the OITNB game - but I was so taken by the power and artistry in this episode (S2E4) Whole Hole) that I looked up reviews and commentary on it. This piece matched the artistry of the episode itself IMHO! Brilliantly insightful (didn't catch the model's sweater on the poster) yet not pedantic. I'll…