Oh god, right. Black friday is coming. I wonder if they’ll deal with that.

Or Stan follows Oleg around at some point in this season and sees him meeting with Philip. Which could lead to all sorts of fun.

That’s not quite the way it reads to me; yes, it’s clearly a way to make Paige feel like she’s part of something more than just dangerous and clandestine. It’s sort of the Harry Potter-effect; they’re trying to make Paige feel like she’s special. Not a regular American teen, but one of the Russians, heir to centuries…

Ugh, that just makes me imagine that they should have had F Murray Abrams playing a composer at some point, if they weren’t cancelled.

So, it’s going to be a lot of singing and reciting poems?

I’m actually genuinely upset by this. Mozart in the Jungle was the best show about what it’s like to devote your life to art. Going from a mostly silly show to something that became quite complex and moving as it developed.

Apart from that if you’re going to use a Russian composer to win over your young protegé, your obviously frayed operative, and an American audience you’re not going to go with a composer who was in better standing with the party like Shostakovich.
But it does reinforce this notion that the Russia that Elizabeth has…

The problem is how do you do that when the character your show is based on, is staunchly pro-trump? There’s a blurred line between the Roseannes Barr and Conner. To what degree are the writers boxed in by the actual Roseanne’s personal convictions?
It would be easy to write a conversation that hammers Roseanne on the…

This is the opposite of that Woody Allen-line: ‘It’s so bad, and such small portions’.
It’s so terrible and it just goes on and on.
How has Cline not died of embarrassment?

Star Trek’s characters are nostalgic for things that we can be nostalgic for as well, and which could be produced on 90's tv-budgets. It makes sense from a storytelling and production-standpoint. If Data/Tom Paris/Dr Bashir went on a holo-adventure based on a late 21st century movie, the episode would have to explain…

I mean he’s no Tony Bennett, but it’s better than Anthony Hopkins’ paintings for sure. Mainly though you can see his personality come through, which gives sets his work apart from most celebrity painters, whose work usually feels like dabbling. 

It’s almost painful to imagine how much better SNL could be if in 2016 they had cast Adomian and Atamanuik.

Was that Jon Hamm jumping on the stage at the end?

Still better than Lin Manuel Miranda being in talks for the role now.

I was under the assumption that it was just going to tackle the first book, but the article says it’s going to be the complete series. Which doesn’t seem like enough time to get things right. The first book alone could sustain a mini series, or if you want to rejigger the plot a bit, you could throw in Will’s…

I always pictured Willem Dafoe in a trapper hat, but it’s hard to argue with the choice of Sam Elliot.

It would be nice if Netflix would use all those Marvel nonsense-dollars to produce some more content like Babylon Berlin, but I guess they know what their audience actually wants, so we get this.

Since you asked; I’m a fairly standard social democrat who thinks that Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Germany all show how economic freedom can be adjusted to guarantee a high standard of living for everyone. Nothing radical about it, I just believe that big business needs to be kneecapped to ensure the future for…

Alright, I’ll admit that I find the demands from many student activists to not be exposed to certain materials, speakers, etc often misguided and overreactions. To not even speak of those who object to things like chinese food in the cafeteria or yoga courses on the grounds of cultural appropriation.

Intersectional critique has existed for longer than a decade, it hasn’t exactly brought about a new censorious totalitarian regime.
You claim that the progressive left (far too broad a term) is against free expression, but all you can point to is a few isolated examples of nincompoops objecting to language in old…