You can't argue that people don't want real-world issues in their superhero stories and then use the two most ideologically inconsistent, erratic and badly thought out superhero movies in existence.

That's a bit of a weird reading — I'm not going to take you to task for it like I do with people who claim The Incredibles is an Objectivist fantasy, but I think it's a very uncharitable way of reading into that. The "Pax", the chill-out formula that killed the people of Miranda, wasn't there to make them happier or…

Makes sense to you and me, but the higher ups in the US intelligence services wouldn't care. They're just ravenous for more sources.

His Swedish intelligence character (who seduced suitcase hottie — Annalise) is one of his best looks! Sharp hair, black thick rimmed glasses, suit, no tie. Definitely a winner.

I loved that! It was awesome! And I've been through similar, on a much smaller scale (obtaining sets and props for theatre). It was gratifying, and frustrating, to know that even operating on a TV budget with professionals handling everything, these things happen.

As someone who sat through 16 years of a private Jewish education, I love your username.

Right on both counts. Iraqi! What a racist. I even referred to him as Afghani elsewhere in this thread so total brain fart. Thanks, I'll edit.

Given that Rhys's natural accent is heavy welsh, his skill with dialects shouldn't be underestimated.

Unplanned, yes, but intentional and controlled and not the result of a fight or an emergency situation.

I can't STAND grade whining, especially comparisons between shows. This was a very good episode of The Americans but wasn't one of its best. You can't give As to every episode just because it's a better show than The Flash, or else you wouldn't be able to recognise the real standouts.

Yes, you are wrong. Philip has always killed more than Elizabeth — by a fairly wide margin for a long time, but Elizabeth is very slowly catching up.

To be fair, two of them were Afghani mujahideen soldiers, one of whom was boasting about how many soviets he'd killed, and the other was meant to take a message back to Afghanistan but wouldn't stop fighting Philip, so those two kills were RELATIVELY justified.

RIP me. This week The Americans killed me with that shot of our beloved Martha.

My heart couldn't take it!

I wish the AVC would stop saying things like "The Donald Trump presidency is continuing to be very good for Stephen Colbert’s Late Show". Comedians with consciences don't want Trump presidencies. Trump isn't good for Colbert, and putting that on him uglies his name.

He has specifically made up protests in the past when none have occurred, so ignoring him simply doesn't work.

I didn't know that. That's fucking terrifying.

Wikileaks has de-legitimatised itself, thankyouverymuch. For an organisation ostensibly dedicated to transparency, its behaviour in the election period was unbelievably, disgustingly, nakedly partisan. Wikileaks got Trump elected. It was their mission, and they accomplished it.

We're all right there with you, brother/sister.

I'm with you on most of this, but ignoring the alt-right and nihilistic white supremacist provocateurs is not a strategy that works. If we don't protest them, they'll just invent some other way they're oppressed (or invent protests wholesale).