All Star Trek series have disappointing first years. I am sure this one will take a while to find itself, too. I think it is unreasonable to expect this one to emerge from the gate as good as late series TNG or DS9.

So we know the the McCain/Flake report found $53 million in Department of Defense spending for patriotic displays at sporting events.

Golem. As opposed to Gollum.

Wouldn't a smart president of China want the US to make geopolitical miscalculations that would discredit itself as a world leader?

> Glad I skipped it.

Oh, hey — did you mean to create a false equivalence to normalize the single dumbest and most self-serving chief executive in the history of the universe? Someone who is literally more unpopular than any previous president, and who was elected by one vote: that of Vladimir Putin? Cause if you didn't mean to do that,…

>After extolling the virtues of watching the Super Bowl as an escape from
politics, Che confesses he’s hoping to “watch the blackest city in
America beat the most racist city I’ve ever been to.” So that’s a “Go,
Falcons” from Michael Che and some predictable outrage fodder for Boston
sports talk radio.

A pretty impersonation of a young Michael Gambon

Yes! The final scene could have been "Archer's plan failed" as long as we thought cyborg Archer was in the pool and real Archer is surprised when Deane shoots him. BUT once we find out that Deane shot cyborg Archer, it is plain there is no version of Archer's plan that would include having real Archer confront Deane…

Doing the Ziploc voice over was such an opportunity, as soon as I read the script, I said, that's the food storage ad that I've been waiting to do my whole life. I actually auditioned for the part of Concerned Parent #4, but then I got a call and they said "you've got the voice-over" and I spent the weekend making a…

Salinger whose works have taught several generations about literature as a way to portray the struggle to live an authentic life, becomes the pretentious manipulator Christof from "The Truman Show". I mean, this is a kind of perfect madness, right?

The point is that if you are taken hostage for an hour and then executed, does the fact that they let you have a good bottle of wine during that hour entitle your murderers to feel better about themselves?

And why can't Hindus recognize cows as Food Animals?

Thanks for bringing up Peter Singer, I think you’re absolutely right about that.

Disliked Sense8. The underlying message seems to be there is a group of elite creatives who have the potential to save the world through their special powers, and it seemed like a pretty transparent self-glorification of Hollywood. I like Hollywoo much better as a commentary on Hollywood.

For me starting with S2 E7 this season really found another gear. Pretty much every episode had something really profound in it.

You've put your finger on why I think that some of the moral language being used to condemn the BoJack character's actions is too simplistic. He actually got it right the first several times. He got it wrong the last time, and if we were talking about this as a strictly criminal issue then we'd say he is guilty, if he…

Team Machine: Mod Squad!

Season 2? How does it stack up against season 1?

This series answered an important question for me: What would happen if
Unamuno’s Abel Sánchez was adapted for TV by Carl Hiassen? The
result was pretty good although often melodramatic. I do hope that they manage
to tilt to axis of the show away from the central tension between the two
brothers. Not a “Fargo” level…