For me it's Joan of Arc and Charles DeGaulle.

Someone just sent me this link:

Yep, season four is when it flew off the rails.

Isn't it that you think all wives, maybe all women, are "nags"?

For some reason that "Methinks thou dost protest too much" comment just popped into my head.

Oh please. You might not like Girls, probably because it's just not your cup of tea; but it portrays realistic characters in a believable setting, and it can be very funny. It's much better than Tyrant.

After three other very fine FX series, Justified, The Americans, and Fargo, this was a big let-down. I think the review is very fair in pointing out all the flaws in Tyrant. It might get better but not by much.

Ironically I'm always annoyed when one of my students (or even worse,one of their parents) argues that they deserve a higher grade. But I think that a B for this episode is way too low. I'd give it an A/A- for content and execution.

Having just come back from a DC field that included the Holocaust Museum, I'd have to disagree.

You're wrong about that. I felt nothing but satisfaction watching Joffrey die. It was terrible to see the Starks butchered.

His screen name is well-chosen, isn't it?

Not anymore.

Nobody is FOR abortion, as you put it. They're for the right to have an abortion if they feel one is necessary. The abortion rate is dropping, even in states where it is still relatively easy to obtain one, because of better sex education and the wider availability of birth control. And pro-choice supporters think…

No, You're not. I thought the same thing. Everyone except Molly leaping on the Chaz is guilty train was a bit too convenient. The year jump seems to let the writers off the hook in terms of illustrating the due process of law that would be a jury trial, etc.

Our belief in the "chemistry" between two characters is predicated on our own sense that they're right for each other. I rooted for Leslie and Ben on Parks and Rec because they seemed meant to be together. Can't say the same for Richard and Monica. I think Richard needs a cute, quirky nerd girl, someone like Jordan…

Do you really think you have to explain that to us? It's always the weak justification when a show violates its own internal logic.

"And, again, I can’t believe how skillful the show has been at making me give a damn about Chaz, a guy who sort of seemed like a throwaway character when the show began and an example of the show trying to have quirky Coen-esque side characters and largely failing at it."

From reading the comments on other sites, I'd say that true fans of MM overwhelmingly loved it.

Sally didn't go with the younger boy because he was "safer." She kissed him because he was the the non-cynical stargazer. That kiss made me appreciate Sally more than ever.

There's actually a book out now by Radley Balko called Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America. I thought of that book when those officers just stood there firing shot after shot into Chumph's body.