Stop calling her "Seline." She's "Chair."

A damning indictment of this show's commitment to historical fact.

The best episode yet. Deserves much better than a "C+."

Because it's wonderful (well, honestly, that word might be a bit strong).

So much stupidity, ignorance of history, and just plain hatred on exhibition from your good self. The war wasn't fought over slavery. Even if you can make a case that the south seceded over slavery (it was more complicated than that, but the complications admittedly still revolved around slavery), that could have been…

Next thing you know British actors will be getting hired to play Americans. Or would that be just too wacky to ever happen in television?

I liked it when they got the governor of Iowa — yes, the real governor of Iowa — to congratulate Canada on getting the 24-hour day.

Yes.

She's the best thing about it, definitely, but carrying it? No, there are too many other characters who are funny. The only problem with the show is that Eddie is easily the least funny character in it and he is supposed to be the star.

Nope. Showtime turned into HBO. It is hard to believe now that the same year (1997) that HBO launched gritty prison drama Oz, Showtime launched…Stargate SG-1. While HBO was busy making more series that redefined the way we think of TV, with productions that seemed like true cinema rather than mere "TV," Showtime's…

Recently I saw a comment from someone who said that even the cheaper single malt Scotches "kick the shit out of most Bourbons." My first thought after reading that was that where I am (British Columbia, Canada) even the cheaper single malt Scotches are pretty damn expensive. My second thought was that I will gladly…

Single malt Irish whiskey, he said — so not Scotch.

This episode was non-stop comic genius. A "B?" No, "A+" all the way.

More than that. I think that rather than HBO and Cinemax just being corporate siblings under TimeWarner, HBO formally has control over Cinemax. So it is like a sibling relationship with big brother having the power (if not the right) to make little brother eat worms.

Season one of Strike Back was a completely British series. For season two, Cinemax not only boarded as a co-producer, but as the senior co-producer, meaning they contribute more money to the production than the UK channel. So, like ApathyMonger said, Cinemax essentially took over the show.

The French series you have in mind is called Marseilles, and it is being done by Netflix. It is NOT a French remake of House Of Cards. It is just a political drama set in the city of Marseilles — although Netflix arguably wouldn't have any interest in doing it but for the success of House Of Cards.

Any American TV show that airs in France is dubbed into French. Germany also dubs anything in English into German. Which makes the common "Oh, those dumb Americans; they can't bear to read anything" comments about the lack of subtitled TV in the US I see from pompous, Europhile British people rather silly. Americans…

I certainly haven't seen it anywhere.

Okay, I'm glad you were just joking, but the points stand, anyway.

NBC did a pilot about it in 2011. It was actually titled "Reconstruction." Obviously is was not picked up.