"Very good" seems strong. I'd go with "quite enjoyable."

Ray Wise! Who literally starred in a TV show as Satan!

I think the video was more or less meant to make people cry, actually. It's certainly not funny.

Nicely done.

I think the snobbier thing to do is to say that of course you haven't read the books, because it's popular fiction and the prose style is barely adequate, while the TV show elevates Martin's pedestrian original material. And even snobbier than that is to reject both as beneath your notice ("I don't watch television,…

I will continue to assume that Clive figured this out ages ago, but is only now mentioning it to Ravi.

He didn't quite admit that he was trying to engage Whitney in a bisexual threesome - just that he was watching her and was aroused.

Eden surely *was* coming on to him. The incident in Williamstown wasn't quite her throwing herself at him, but it wasn't particularly one-sided, either.

The latter, I think. I'd always thought of Bradley as almost an archetypal example of a "good man" who did "great" things. He's played by Karl Malden in Patton, for God's sake.

It is weird, especially given that, you know, I'm assuming "The Affair" is not a thinly-veiled roman a clef.

Or she's remembering him telling her that he saw Captain America because he said in his phone message that that's what he was going to do?

It came to Philly via the Pennsylvania Dutch, so I suppose that makes sense.

Soft pretzels are most associated with Philadelphia, I'd think. According to Wikipedia "the average Philadelphian today consumes about twelve times as many pretzels as the national average."

I assume, like sarcasm detector, that they are referring to the mean, but even with the median, I'd suspect that it's more than 0. NCAA pools and fantasy football are pretty omnipresent.

I see a whole lot of commentary about Back to the Future, and almost nothing about whether the internet has actually done a great job this time. I'm assuming that it's garbage, as usual?

It means he won't be the best at *any* situation. A generalist family attorney for rich people deals with every day situations, and with recommending specialists for non-everyday situations. No way he should be dealing with either the divorce or the criminal proceedings.

I should have said that Wikipedia says that Montauk, specifically, and not just the town of East Hampton, is part of the Hamptons. I imagine this is one of those issues where it depends on how precise you are being. If you don't spend a lot of time there, Montauk - a beach resort town on the eastern end of Long Island…

Montauk is in the town of East Hampton. Wikipedia says it's part of the Hamptons.

As a child of the 90s, I'll always prefer Kevin Conroy's excellent voicework in Mr. Mom: The Animated Series.

Her parents were partying with famous people (e.g. O.J. Simpson) long before O.J. killed Nicole.