Joe's come a long way in seasons 2 and 3. He absolutely started life as Mysterious Power Douche, and yeah, the idea of Patrick Bateman crossed with Don Draper was wearing a little thin.

S1's trying a little too hard, but worth watching just for context and background.
S2 and S3 are gold, Jerry.

Saw that and thought, "That's a little awkward for Gordon."

It's weird. Marvel's characters almost always seem to work better written as regular people who happen to have powers (well, except for Thor). Which means that writers are always turning the volume down on everything.

Plus it introduced most of us to Michelle Yeoh.

I said this when you interviewed Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Will, but it's gotta be amazing to be on the phone with these actors when they're feeling so expansive.

Wow. Fantastic to see a side of Mad Sweeney that isn't just "irritable prick." There's kindness and remorse and guilt and all sorts of complicated emotions here. Pablo Schreiber, man.

Bourne, Blade II, Minority Report, Equilibrium, Hero, The Transporter…I'd forgotten that '02 was such a sneaky-great year for action flicks.

Yeah, his only real crime was being oblivious. And when you've been with someone for 10 years, you've probably built up a level of trust that says, "Ah, everything's OK."

Weirdly enough, Henry's one of the easiest characters to relate to.

Yeah, it seemed like Elizabeth's version of Philip's speech to her in season 1—the one after they've taken their loyalty-check beatdown. She realizes that she might actually like certain parts of this way of life they've immersed themselves in.

Yeah, the first time we see him, he's dressed like Season 1 Don Draper.
Literally the God of the Suits.

Lord, the comedic talents of Pablo Schroeder. Mad Sweeney has that Mickey Doyle vibe about him.

I've been Dev and I've been Pino. So while we're supposed to be rooting for Dev, what he's doing is still pretty fucked up.

Dude, Training Day.

If I stumble upon it while channel-surfing, I'll still drop everything I'm doing for the next couple of hours. And that's 17 years (and countless viewings) since it came out.

"You'd be better off running some sort of ham-based business."
Fergal FTW.

"Mister Doctor?" Come on, I laughed out loud at that.

If Philip and Elizabeth came over in the early 60s, they'd have come of age in the de-Stalinzation period, when Khrushchev started leaking info about the horrible shit that Stalin pulled. The gulags, the random arrests and purges…Khrushchev put some of that in the open, which meant Philip would've felt all sorts of…

Ronin's one of the great underrated action flicks. Frankenheimer directing a Mamet (under a pseudonym) script, DeNiro, Jean Reno, Skaarsgard, Sean Bean (who doesn't die for a change). DeNiro very smartly underacting his ass off.