The way the writers and Cranston portray White, he was always capable of murder. Can't say the same for Allison and the writers of OB.

One could be pro gay marriage and good on the environment and still not be a "moderate."

There seems to be a brand of Hollywood conservatism, not the crazy-eyed Chuck Norris kind, and MJH is one of them; pro-Gay marriage, pro-environment, then oddly silent on other conservative touchstones.

First thing I thought of when I saw the title of this piece in my soon-to-be defunct Google Reader was, "How does Chris Brown get away with what?" If anything, any aspirations he had to anything greater than being "the guy who will be portrayed as a total asshole in a future biopic" is gone. Before the Rhianna…

"An American remake of Johnnie To’s Blind Detective, a midnight selection (out of Competition), seems altogether unlikely"

Or the fact that Mia Kirshner starred in a couple of Canada's best exports?

@avclub-620982009915db2a0b4a49e224bad30c:disqus  I find that many UFC viewers and regular joggers are kinda big. Prolly all that UFC viewing.

I usually expect Maurice Dean Wint

So casting her was like Canadian fan service?

Oh dear is he awful. But you do insult Ms Price.

Given that Sarah is the lead character in a manner of speaking she's likely to be special. The adopted children were a kind of lazy tell for frequent observers of speculative fiction. Hopefully they wont go down this path and @avclub-c3edd68db00c5cf9b2342b19106ca1f6:disqus s idea below will be the plot line.

Nashville represent!

Movie tickets in Tokyo are already the equivalent of $25 at least. So you may want to alter your estimate.

Great piece. That is all.

@avclub-7e0ff37942c2de60cbcbd27041196ce3:disqus looks like things could be headed that way. Has a familiar ring, so it would be disappointing if the show goes in that direction. Then again, I may not stick with it that long.

As was pointed out to me, the character bio reads that the children are adopted. I hope they at least acknowledge it within the story if the fact that they are adopted has nothing to do with the plot machinations or the back story or the cloning.

There are several well-thought of, considered to be thoughtful comics who occasionally evince a lack of book learnin' in their stand-up (Chris Rock's diatribe against lactose intolerance, as if it is something invented by soft-gutted Americans and not something suffered by people of Asian and African descent).

They are certainly acting like other kids on other television shows when parents split up.

However, your original point is well taken. We know all this about Gregory because we had a nifty blues song to guide us and a not-so-cryptic title. We never got a sense, through Gregory about the extent of his commitments, to either Elizabeth or Socialism, through him.

Gregory was ultimately a trope, the Black character making the heroic sacrifice, despite the fact that his relationship with Elizabeth, displayed as openly sexual as it was, broke that mold somewhat.