Maine and Nebraska are the only two states that don't use that method. Every other state does.

The electoral college (ironically) served its intended purpose perfectly. It prevented New York, DC, and California from running the country to its benefit and to hell with the detriment to the rest of the country.

Yeah, I agree it made more sense in this situation because of Rory's unique circumstances. It wasn't just a totally pointless decision to recycle the plot of the show because the writers couldn't come up with literally any other idea for their character to write about. It still makes Rory look relatively uninspired…

The population of New York, DC and California combined is around 60 million, less than 1/5 of the population of the United States. If we used the popular vote, these areas would get less than 1/5 of the power to determine an election. There's no way they would've been able to run the country with that percentage of…

Why? I'm curious to know your perspective.

One thing I hated: Rory's manuscript. I despise the trope of characters writing a book/play/screenplay that's basically a retread of the show. It's happened in so many different series and it never fails to annoy me with its air of self-satisfaction and lack of creativity. I'm slightly grateful that it was a memoir…

I agree. It seems like we're in the minority, but I enjoyed the musical and laughed multiple times when watching it. Maybe it's because I watched it after I'd read about what an excruciating waste of time it was, but it really didn't seem that bad.

This x1000. Michelle Dockery is a revelation in both Downton Abbey and her new show. She's a fantastic antiheroine in both. It seems unfair to me that so many male antiheroes are celebrated for their flaws while people endlessly bitch about flawed female protagonists. Although Lady Mary was a fantastic antiheroine…

Maybe it had something to do with Buffy being a show that had been successful for years and Gilmore Girls being an untested quantity? I'm not sure. I agree that it seems inconsistent, but that's what I've read.

I just rewatched a random episode of Lost and I was blown away by how gripping it still was. I know that its ending tarnished its reputation for a lot of people, but the series as a whole really holds up. Maybe it would suffer if I tried to watch the entire series again, but each episode is fantastically structured on…

I LOVED Jessica Jones but by the final few episodes, the writers were definitely pulling reasons not to kill off Kilgrave before the finale out of their asses. I remember at one point Jessica decided not to kill him because she was worried about the possible effect it would have on the people he was controlling, then…

Apparently Amy Sherman-Palladino wanted Sookie to be gay but early 2000s-WB wasn't ready for it yet.

Twee, cutesy, dialogue-heavy shows like Gilmore Girls and Buffy are next to impossible to rewatch even if you enjoyed them originally. The clever writing feels so smug and calculating once the banter doesn't have the distraction of being delightfully surprising anymore.

I couldn't even get into Battlestar Galactica the first time. I think it would've been really compelling if I'd watched it when it first aired right after 9/11 and during the war on terror. It came along at exactly the right time and that's a big part of why it's so well-regarded. Watching it now, it just doesn't feel…

Not to be a total downer, but I can't really enjoy any pop culture right now. Any time I spend reading, watching, or listening to something I used to enjoy feels like a colossal waste of time that I ought to be spending protesting or donating to civil rights organizations or learning more about how government works. I…

When I watched The Man in the High Castle last year, I rolled my eyes at what I thought was obsolete speculation about the loss of American independence, multiculturalism and democracy to fascism. I thought it was an irrelevant novel to remake into a tv series because the dystopian fears it illustrated were so…

It doesn't prove that most of America loves racist rapists but it does prove that enough people are either susceptible to appeals to xenophobia, racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, and general assholery or just don't care enough to vote against it even when the candidate in question has most likely committed…

The best we can hope for is a Agnew/Nixon-style jettisoning of both the president and the VP, though ideally it'd happen before Trump has the chance to get re-elected.

Stealing a troll persona from a tv show and using buzzwords to mock people. You must be such an original thinker.

A T-Rex is a pretty good metaphor for ol' stumpy-hands Trump.