Lovejoy, Columbo, and Banacek in a 3-hour block pretty much rocked my world and ruined my freshman year of college. Who needs to go to class? George Peppard is wearing a hideous houndstooth jacket and turtleneck!

Almost guaranteed next season, I think. I just hope it's not a last minute phone call to his father or something - I wanna see the dude get his spy on!

Thanks for the responses, everybody. I think I'm gonna take in the first season and then (presuming it's good and catches my interest) dive into the book.

Not that anything is for certain in the film industry, but is there really a question as to whether a studio would pony up to let Miller make another one? I thought Fury Road was a huge hit?

Serious question for those who have read the novel: as someone who has not, based on what we know might be different between the show and the book, would you recommend reading the book first? I know it might not matter in the end, but I'm curious what the general opinion is.

Yeah, I'm really gonna have a tough time even tolerating Elizabeth if Pasha dies as a result and she's just all, "WELP, THEMS THE BREAKS!"

I'm definitely Photoshopping McShane's face from the opening image at the top as a go-to reply for just about every bullshit thing I hear ever from now on.

United: Now We Are Literally Killing Cute Fluffy Bunnies, But You Gotta Get To That Meeting, So We Know You're Gonna Stop Caring Once You Need A Ticket, Ha Ha

Exactly. The market's already saturated (clearly) with these folks, and social media and the internet means we just don't need as many of them as we used to for coverage. The fact that 2/3 of them just parrot "hot takes" or bland establishment opinions makes many of them even more redundant.

You're right. I have no doubt that Oleg needs to be in Moscow to deliver on some huge aspect of the final season (probably involving a defection or something).

Change your sausage. Change your life.

I keep thinking Mahal should play it more as an upper-class Alberto Del Rio-type character, sort of the mogul with wealth and class instead of (as you mention) yelling and roaring all the time. And I like your meta twist on his heel rationale.

I feel like the show needs to find a way to get Oleg involved in something important again. Don't get me wrong, Costa Ronin is incredibly watchable no matter what he's doing, but Oleg being in Russia chasing down corrupt-ish food suppliers has gone precisely nowhere, IMO. I'm not sure losing a POV at the Rezidentura…

Pasha's going to end up killing himself, and that's gonna push Phillip over the edge. Calling it now.

I mean, there's literally no point in making this as a movie if you can't license the music, right? Not that it wouldn't be a compelling story in and of itself, but it seems like it would be a larger-than-normal elephant in the room in this case.

If history has taught us anything, it's that Madonna not being involved with your movie is probably a good thing.

Rediscovering NPR over the last few years, Siegel was one of my favorite commentators, with a voice like a smooth scotch on the rocks. The rest of them I find pretty interchangeable, with the exception of Kelly McEvers, Audie Cornish, and some guy named Ed who reports in on big stories from Texas (he sounds like he…

I know two seconds of Googling would have cleared this up, but A) I swear I always thought his name was Ira Plato, and B) I choose to believe he looks like a thinner, nerdier version of J.J. Abrams.

“Idaho Yogurt Maker Caught Important Migrant Rapists”

Ever since the country collectively decided that 2+2 = 5, I've had to regularly get my jaw re-wired because the frequency of the drops has increased a hundredfold.