I'm still waiting for Game of Thrones to connect the stories haha. Nice to see The Expanse speed that along.

IGN gave this a 9.5 and users give it an A. AVClub seems dedicated to giving this show anywhere from an A- to a B everytime.

This episode felt like half Alien, half Blade Runner. Any time a show can tap into two of Ridley Scott's best, that's a good sign.

It's plausible only if Alicia and Peter admitted to be taking a break or being amicably separated. As it stands, it is ludicrous that they are supposedly together when all evidence in the public sphere points to no.

The show just doesn't seem to recognize its own assets at this point. He was the lead in season 6 and the show should have kept it that way. Heck, the show being about Cary and Alicia striking out on their own and hiring a few new associates is far more interesting than what is going on now. Moreover, the idea of…

Such poorly conceived reset buttons, however, that one has to wonder if the Kings got spooked with the negative press this season or envisioned this storyline all along. Either way, it seems they have decided to leave the show this season and, whether intended or not, this speaks to the slipping quality of the show…

He deserves to get a lead gig somewhere in the next year or two.

I still wonder why the show didn't let Diane and David go and have Cary and Alicia really get to set up their firm.

It is a real bind with what to do with this show. It could end with the Kings this season or get a new showrunner in season 8 and potentially get a more focused narrative. Considering the low ratings, it is time to close down this kitchen faster than the nearest Chipotle.

It would have been better if they just alluded to the candidates.

It's amazing that Peter just bowed out of the primary and we didn't even get a scene between him and Alicia. I get that they aren't close, but shouldn't there at least been a meeting?

That seems like good logic with the Deadwood movie being a potential backdoor pilot. In particular, with the success of Justified for Olyphant and McShane having a part in Game of Thrones season 6, this is as good a time as ever to relaunch Deadwood. An added bonus would be getting Walton Goggins to play a crazy miner…

It's funny that the other "little" pay cable channels have better shows than Showtime at this point. Banshee and The Knick are two of my favorites on Cinemax, while Starz's Black Sails in its second season was outstanding and the company added Ash vs. Evil Dead just to sweeten the pot. Showtime, on the other hand,…

Amen to Penny Dreadful. Also, The Affair has a lot good going for it, though it feels like a miniseries stretched too far at times.

Instead of the theatrics, I wish they had just had the episode be in the bus between stops in real-time. It could have been a great, "getting the pulse of Alicia and her family" episode and ended with Alicia deciding to get a divorce heading into the *likely* final 11 episodes of the show.

Will is also her underlying excuse for not taking more control over her own life. "If only I had gone with Will my life would have been so much better…" In the meantime, she almost completely ignores Jason who has been on her mind. It seems Alicia just doesn't want to have to make a choice when it comes to her…

Yet the Chicago voters were never made fun of so much. I am at grad school in Iowa and it is unfortunate that the show revealed its slight snobbishness about small town America when it doesn't treat city dwellers as bumpkins. At least Iowans weren't corrupt like Chicago.

I guess R6 brought in a new demographic. Probably one that huffs bleach and thinks they can 4 wheel on the moon, but money is money I guess. In other words… white trash = white cash

I love Lincoln as much as anyone, but he seems like the one saint in US popular culture and I wonder (as well as Tarantino, it seems, from your comment) about whether he shouldn't be treated as a man who did the right thing, eventually, as opposed to a man who could do no wrong.

I took the ending of The Hateful Eight to be much more pessimistic than argued here. Here are these two men who have seen the failure of both the Yankee and Confederate cause and they laugh and romanticize the false letter as a chance for the two to find common ground as they die. However, this "common ground" is…