"The whole premise of the show was that in the 20th century an old family is burdened/saved by having a Manchester solicitor become the sole heir. That was the most exciting and fruitful source of tension in the show! "

That's nice to hear! I haven't actually finished the last season all the way through yet so I only caught bits of her, but that would be a great story as well.

Yeah, I don't especially like what Fellows did with their storyline once they decided to make the big jump into marriage (surprise, surprise), but I think that the romantic tension and mutual admiration that they had for each other in season one was wonderful. The things that cheesy historical romance novels are built…

Haha, I loved her in that role. I'm excited to see her new character!

You know, as much as I liked the first season, the Sybil and Branson storyline was the only one I managed to find especially compelling and it basically kills me that they had him carrying on this stupid dalliance with the scheming maid in later seasons. I hate Mary as a general rule but I think that a romance between…

Yes! He definitely was on the leading edge of the preppy/nerd spectrum back in the day. I think he's awesome, lol.

Too hot. :( It's very silky looking!

Really?! I love him! I think that he's actually pretty self-aware about a lot of his neurotic hipster-y ness and he seems to work a lot of that into his material.

You're actually like 38, aren't you?

He's definitely at his best when he's playing a plausible coke fiend.

Yeah, I suppose to be able to have a real discussion you'd need to get through all the material really quickly. I wonder how many people who had no other experience with the series wind up going into these sorts of classes? It sounds like it could get a little overwhelming, haha. But in a fun way, at least! And I've…

Ahh, that's too bad. :( Yeah, the student spots always fill up quickly in those sorts of electives. There was one professor my my school that taught a lot of film history electives, and he had really fun sounding ones like the history of Disney, history of horror films, the history of Native Americans in film. I never…

I don't know, there are a lot of cool things about the Harry Potter series that are studied in other college social science and English classes. There are tons of references to ancient mythology, Shakespeare and biblical tradition throughout the series (some say that Rowling actually relied on those references a…

Yeah, I don't think a course like that could really be put entirely within one discipline or another. It would be fun though! I'd sign up for the class listed in the article in a second, and I'm kind of sad that I haven't been able to take any of these awesome Harry Potter courses yet, haha.

I don't know, I think that the a course on the book series might carry more weight as an analysis on the social structure of the world Martin created than as an examination of his actual writing or his literary status. Yeah, his actual dialogue or whatever can get pretty hacky in some spots (not unlike Rowling), but I…

I was going to say, she might remember the night for the rest of her life, but who is going to remember Avicii in 15 years? Kinda sad.

Ugh, the styling for this shoot is so awful and cliche. "It's like if Sling Blade and Pocahontas had a baby." What? It's like something out of a 1980's Harlequin Western/Romance novel cover, ridiculous cultural appropriation and all. Also, why were they so rude at the restaurant? She left LA in search of hip dining? I…

Tim apparently has to deal with this crap all the time too. I can understand just getting really sick of strangers grabbing your junk while you're performing and slapping back at them. My opinion is that if you don't want to deal with the consequences of molesting strangers then you should keep your damned hands to…

Yeah, and I don't mean to imply that it's a bad thing really, it's just kind of amusing for me to hear that everyone always is so "noble" in their choice not to have children. I respect that everyone has different reasons for wanting or not wanting to have children and that they don't always correlate with my own.

Oh no, not at all! I should have read up a bit before I commented.