Was the jury not allowed to convict him of second degree murder or manslaughter? Because that at least would have been a plausible compromise. Finding him guilty of first degree murder but not mutilation of a corpse is an absurd compromise.

My sense is that this is putting the case rather more strongly than the evidence does. He was calling her a couple of times with *67 (not *41) on the day when she was coming to his house, which is weird, but doesn't really make sense as a way to conceal his identity, since she was, you know, coming to his house. I've…

That was the Wisconsin Attorney General, not DoJ.

That would be rather more convincing if it had any citations to anything.

You can't spoil real life. Jesus Christ.

Isn't impulse control exactly the part of your brain that doesn't fully develop until you are 25? Was not Avery 23 when he went to prison for 18 years?

I suppose that was explained by the fact that they weren't real.

Well, that's obviously not what *this* Sherlock Holmes series is about. It's not like there's a shortage of shows about brilliant but "difficult" detectives solving a cleverly constructed mystery each week. One of those shows, on the air on the most popular TV network in the US, even names the detective "Sherlock…

Saving Private Ryan? Return of the Jedi?

401k's weren't a thing in 1979! Boo!

For me, at least, that is pretty much a description of every Judd Apatow movie.

24 years.

This is so strange to me. Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone arguably made the Angels less effective than they had been in Blink, but was pretty effective on its own terms; Pandorica Opens/Big Bang was a very solid season finale; Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon was really good; I more or less like A Good Man Goes to…

You obviously don't want anyone to know you're snitching, but organized crime types inform on their enemies to the cops all the time. See, for instance, Whitey Bulger.

Oh, wow, didn't even catch that he's the same guy from Duluth PD in Season 1.

Hopefully The Americans can bring on Bruce Campbell as Reagan next season.

Couldn't he do that and also make his Avatar sequels? It's not like re-releasing DVDs is something that Cameron will be personally spending time on.

Yes, it's definitely a bit more complicated/confusing than the original films. I guess my basic feeling is that it doesn't matter. It's not like the politics were crystal clear in the 1977 film, either - there's some confusing conversation about the Imperial Senate and the bureaucracy and so forth.

If it worked then, why can't it work now?

Leia was surely not on Alderaan at the time.