That show does not usually follow rape survivors YEARS later, just living their lives and doing other stuff. It's preoccupied with the investigation & prosecution phase, not the living-your-life phase.

The trouble is, there's no set-definition for what makes a character a superhero.

I'm not really sure "rapey" was the way to go with your first female led superhero show.

Monica Rambeau was a terrible character.

And not just from post-Nolan.

Oh that makes sense.

Seriously? Banshee is good?

even the little snippets of history that Cinemax would throw in over the return from commercials or just before the credits or whatever was fantastic

Also, more people should be watching The Knick

O'Malley is the mainstream Democratic alternative to Hillary

O'Malley's campaign for vice president gained a lot of traction, I thought.

Steve Jobs dated Joan Baez??

I don't even think it's the external force. There are a lot of inherent pressures in a movie script – all the screenwriting books tell you to pare down, pare down, pare down – and Sorkin gets that, not in a theoretical way but as a working professional. All 4 of his movie scripts since Studio 60 have had some…

#4 would be when drunk Randy is making out with his ex-girlfriend in the bathroom at the nightclub

I didn't take it that way, just that it would have been nice to see her hit it really BIG. And I agree. But there was a time I would have killed to have her career, 4 decades in Hollywood directing TV shows and the occasional feature.

Coolidge deserved a bigger career, but I guess executives kept confusing her for Amy Heckerling?

insistence that there be four distinct bare-breast scenes.

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One of the characters is the Shan (high ranking nobility) of some kingdom or other, and his new body appears amazing, regal, perfect – but prone to fits of epilepsy.
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yes. near the end of chapter 2, it's the moment when the…

"That's when the fit hit the shan" supposedly the line that inspired him to write the entire book

It's a middle-of-a-trilogy film, and it feels exactly like one