Human nature through history. Group arrives into a society, is looked down on and feared/mocked. Couple of generations later, they're part of the furniture, & they in turn give the new kids a hard time. Lack of self awareness is a pretty consistent human trait.

I think it was on the Watch pod that it was discussed that Vinyl was originally supposed to be a movie. And the show does feel …. unstructured, there's all these cool ideas and actors being thrown at the screen, but not sure where the whole thing is going.

Much as Bono is annoying as hell at this point, Eve Hewson is excellent in The Knick

In the UK she would be "National Treasure, Dame Margo Martindale"

Precisely, and the cycle we're in now is one of fear and anger. There's a part of the population that has lost financial security & status & are aware that a larg(ish) section of the 'Others' are thriving. Mainstream politics offers no hope to these people, only austerity and further decline. Hence the attraction of…

I think there's a parallel in that, post recession, there's a largish constituency of scared, angry, frustrated people that are looking for ways of lashing out. It's not specifc to the US

Ireland is a very homogeneous country even now, so I don't believe the population is any more particularly racist. It has roughly the same percentage of assholes as everywhere else, which , admittedly looks the same when you're on the receiving end. Irish people tend to spout a lot of rubbish they don't believe,…

Could very well have been, maybe wrt Better Off Saul

In Ireland, we've just had a national election. One part of the country elected two incomprehensible hill billy brothers, who give out about the Dublin( read; liberal) media and are unapologetically local, to the point of basically saying screw the rest of the country. They represent the old and the pissed off, who…

It came up in a thread of late, a director explained he liked casting comedians, because comedians can act. The reverse, not necessarily so.

<avclub>The script moved him…to a BIGGER HOUSE!</avclub>

Crucifixion, worked historically, albeit temporarily.

I'd take the chance with Banshee. It's got better and better, almost by the episode. How awesome could it have been by series 10? The answer is none, none more awesome.

<hoo> "I'm angry. I'm very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my fucking television set!" </hah>

Traditionally, alcohol has ensured this has not happened. Yet.

I'd guess Rylance won't get nod as he's been a theatre actor most of his career. Spielberg (or Hanks, memory failing) was chasing him for years to be in a film. Unless you do something amazing, reckon you have to have paid your dues in the industry to some extent, human nature on the part of voters. If Fassbender is…

So it's the female Elizabethtown. Quick, to the BatRabinsignal! There could be a new MDPG in this if we play our cards right..

I've read the plot three times now, and it still makes zero fucking sense.

Precisely, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Peggy is constantly being underestimated 'cos she's a woman, and Wilkes explains his loyalty to EvilCorp because they were the only ones that would give him a job due to the colour of his skin and where he was from. It's set in a time when people were beginning to accept…

Too odd for the mainstream. He'll have to settle for a Walken style career of stealing the show in everything he's in.