LF is still being disingenuous, though. He knows perfectly well that it doesn't make sense to say "Brienne swore to protect your mother, and she failed"— Brienne was not Catelyn's personal bodyguard and there's nothing she could have done about the Red Wedding. He just said that because he knew it'd push Sansa's…

Yes; also, A Perfect Spy is sort of an amalgam of Philby's background and Le Carré's own— they both had very strange childhoods with crazy shady fathers, and Le Carré said he could easily imagine himself going down the same path if he'd met the wrong people.

It's like calling Punch-Drunk Love "the new Adam Sandler movie". Whoever goes to see the movie based on that description is going to end up confused and/or enraged.

On the other hand, Karen is keeping secrets from the other two, so there are more story possibilities this way. Otherwise it'd just be "everyone knows about everything important, except Foggy."

In the first episode when Foggy asked Matt what his fictional date had been like, and Matt said "violent", it occurred to me that "I'm kinky and enjoy being beaten up by all those women you think I'm dating" would be a better cover story than "I keep bumping into things".

Even though the ninja fight is jarring in the context of the show's earlier sorta-kinda-realistic-except-for-the-superhero tone, and also a little visually frustrating with everything being all drenched in shadows, I liked that Daredevil not only was getting his ass handed to him but really seemed kind of scared and…

The most horrific thing I've learned so far from the official commentary podcast for The Americans is that the actor whose character was executed by burning car tire in that episode had personally witnessed that happen in front of him as a child in South Africa, something he had politely refrained from mentioning to…

Everything in the '80s had to have a ninja in it. If I remember correctly, the first home release of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 was originally titled Ninja Destruction, and Walter Mondale officially announced his 1984 presidential campaign by throwing a red, white and blue shuriken into George McGovern's forehead.

Yeah, "journalist reading his important article in voiceover while a montage shows us the people who are about to be affected by it" is such a familiar device, I was sighing and getting impatient, and then it was so great (even though it sucks for him) when Urich stopped and realized he'd been totally fucked and would…

Smell?

I don't think these are supposed to be your average corrupt cops— they're a mix of cops who are directly working for a high-level mob boss, and guys who aren't actually cops at all but were brought in by the former pretending they're a SWAT team. Fisk and Wesley have talked several times about having only a limited…

I don't date fictional characters. I mean, not any more. Not after… let's not talk about that.

Whenever someone mentions Batman: Year One as an example of Miller's less ridiculous, more understated writing, I know what they mean but I still can't help giggling at Gordon's ultra-hard-boiled fight scene internal narration, where he's like "The guy's not bad… he knows karate… but only karate…"

I'm still rooting for all four of them to end up in a polyamorous relationship. Why should we have to choose? Wilson and Vanessa would be the friends they occasionally fool around with, but then realize that they're not really compatible, but they'll still have them over for board game night.

There is actually what looks like part of a Stilt-Man outfit visible in the background in a later episode. I'm hoping that if they ever use it, it's only for a 3-second gag where the inventor turns it on, it destroys the room, and he realizes it's the stupidest idea ever.

Not to mention "I have counter-proposal: suck my dick." I'm surprised that didn't make it on the reviewer's profanity list. At least it probably inspired some slash fiction.

He's not sure what her background or connections might be, and he has no way to know whether she has proof. He was rattled just by finding out that she knew he's tight with Randall, which wasn't supposed to be common knowledge.

Oh, of course he's adorable. I don't think she's looking past him; more like she's having a mental threesome with him and Matt. It's not a good approach for a first date, but Karen is kind of odd.

Just to be ornery, I will say that I thought I saw what they were going for with that scene and it was a good idea, even if the way it was directed didn't work too well. Karen likes Foggy, but she can't help being obsessed with the super-interesting, super-sexy blind guy who's pretty much the only other person in both…

It's more or less like reading early Alan Moore, or Steve Gerber. They were all young guys with encyclopedic knowledge of superhero comics, and they all started out doing stuff that was very much within the existing tradition of terrible elaborate melodramatic dialogue, but just a little more interesting than usual in…