Well, at the time the critical consensus was pretty much summed up by Pauline Kael's comment that "Blazing Saddles is just dirty TV". The fact that making a comedy with laughs that just keep on coming, and a smidgen of social commentary a la Roger Corman, is a lot harder than anybody thinks is borne out by the fact…

Are you saying you couldn't do that kind of comedy now, @dworkin:disqus ?

@The Mighty Manotaur:disqus - Chewing gum on line, eh?

@disqus_OOyLJ5iwwG:disqus - further to Bajirao Mastani: Yes, it's a tragic romance, and the story pacing isn't always all it could be, but if you like that kind of thing I think you'll love it.

What was it he'd once said, @MrBigMouth:disqus ? "The slow drip, drip, drip, like a leaky faucet, of sobriety"? I really liked that, and while I have to say I never quite felt that unhappy about being sober (well, once I'd gotten over the rough patch at the start, and honestly still being hung over for a few days…

Definitely Liu's Joan Watson deserves a lot of credit as well, @disqus_2cAzmdogmk:disqus ! She took what seemed to be a disastrous "But Different!" casting choice, and made it into a strong, complex character even when she doesn't have a lot to do.

@TMECE:disqus - maybe because they didn't just see it as a "Dramatic! Hook!", but because at least a few people on the show either are close to recovering addicts or are recovering addicts themselves. (One of the things I didn't like about the IRON MAN "Demon in a Bottle" comic book arc was its heavy-handed,…

Didn't Charles Rocket kill himself because he was already dying of cancer?

Didn't Charles Rocket kill himself because he was already dying of cancer?

::watches 2016 reach into the Future to grab one more!::

Yes, it's good good, not just CBS Procedural Good, @avclub-e97c0441208f7b61e112ee1b8882f143:disqus .

@avclub-e305c4a87433ee66e142f67c450fdf6a:disqus - kind of, but not at all, according to this Televisionary Review?

It won't be Dinklage's first time playing a short genius - he was Lena Headey's Controller in a superhero comedy pilot, Ultra….

::@jrobie:disqus 's screen changes to Steve Gibson, babbling endlessly in his high-pitched, Quinti Venti Latte-fueled voice about malware as a moving target::

She also does a DJ request show on Apple Music, @cinecraft:disqus - my wife likes listening to her talk.

@avclub-81fc53c51059936bda7ac43bdcb32449:disqus - I worked on Wall Street for almost a decade.

@pierregeneric:disqus - What do YOU care? It's the 1880s! In forty years, you can sure HER!

How about Hedy Lamarr developing the principles for what later became wi-fi and Bluetooth?

That was some Primo Computer Science there, @avclub-ab5266a567015c1fa88e4cb37ae91f51:disqus !

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus - okay, so Verne, being French, didn't know he needed to put a comma between "20,000 Leagues" and "Under the Sea". We see far worse crimes of punctuation, grammar, syntax, even basic spelling every day on the Internet.