I finished the first season recently; personally I thought the first 3 episodes were a lot more interesting than the last 4, which doesn't bode well for any renwed attempts to get into it on your part.

So I'll be spending the next two weeks doing my annual Army Reserve training, which means I'll be stuck in a tent not watching The Bridge.

In fairness, the Daily Mail always thinks it's time to vote UKIP and End this Madness.

It seemed like the first few episodes of "The Americans" were on the FX website a lot sooner than that.

It's not liberal at all, that claim in the article is without merit. Gutfeld is a libertarian, and Redeye reflects that. But on both Redeye and The Five, Gutfeld is more interested in contrarianism, snark and ratings, rather than advancing any kind of ideology.

That's good to hear. I know it got good reviews here and so forth, but after such a trippy pilot I'm sure people were worried about it going off the rails.

Worked 8 hours on, 8 hours off, for 64 hours, only the fourth shift was a 16-hour double. So that was horrible. I also watched more Veronica Mars. It may be the most complexly plotted TV series I've ever seen. I realized that when the "previously on" segment for an episode was a full 2 minutes and 48 seconds. I'm 19…

That was the date Prop 8 and section 3 of DOMA were struck down.

My idea for a pay cable historical drama series can be summed up in one word: Pornocracy

I played that battle on a Civil War ironclad combat simulator once. As in history, both ships came out of the duel largely unharmed.

It should be noted that after Hunley drowned in it, Confederate authorities raised it again, and sent it out with a new crew, who succeeded in sinking a Union vessel. Come on Vago, the link to the submarine article is right there at your fingertips!

Oh, that makes a lot of sense actually. Thanks for that legitimately useful and interesting information.

Yeah that's generally my assessment of the show. It's quite funny, but there isn't really enough depth for good reviews.

This covers the entire week, not just the weekend.

I dunno, when she conflates non-violent conflict resolution with feminism, it seems insulting to all of the females who are willing to engage in warfare or other forms of violence.

The Award-bait movies in November and December might improve the balance a bit.

He's a regular Rachel Maddow.

I'm not a big Kickstarter guy, but at the lower levels you can actually get your money's worth in terms of rewards. The Order the the Stick reprint drive offered like 10 digital download comics for $14, or a bunch of swag, a book, and the digital downloads for $25. At that point it was literally better than retail…

Does anyone have a link to the Nixon ad shown in this episode? YouTube just has a bunch of different but equally sinister ones.

That was jaw-droppingly uncomfortable. I couldn't believe that he was trashing Ted in front of his fellow partners and the client, while simultaneously ruining the account. The Gleason mention was a complete surprise for me.