I’m cool with the supernatural angle. Another rote cop thriller doesn’t appeal. Get weird. 

I appreciate your comment and I do think the show could benefit from more supporting characters of substance, but given how prevalent paper thin female supporting characters have been on TV for the past 80-years, I think the show can succeed just fine even if the only real heroes are female. 

I agree. A lot of shows could learn a lesson from this episode for how to explain who all your characters are in a way that feels natural, not like characters are explaining things to each other that they obviously all know. The relationships and tensions between the characters played by Foster, Hawkes, and Prior…

Alright, I’m in. First episode was a bit of a slow, dry burn. It seems more like its own thing than True Detective. There’s no noir narration and the two leads seem more detached to the viewer compared to their predecessors. We’re introduced to them in a more naturalistic way instead of the scenery chewing exposition…

It looks fun. Evangelicals and fundies are gonna hate it.

2 questions:
1: He’s playing Clarence/Thomas as a sly chancer with a keen eye for a scheme, and an upright member of a morally nigh-unimpeachable club?

that’s easy, up until the moment Oliver said the first non-worshipful thing about Elon Musk

Musk is human garbage. There. Saved you 30 minutes.

At the end of the episode Oliver lists some stories they meant to cover and gave me the ultimate validation: car headlights have indeed gotten brighter and are pointed pretty directly in other drivers’ eyes. It just seems so insane the auto industry lets this happen, I’ve assumed I’m just a crank. Guess both things…

Can we all just take a minute and observe that the top photo is pretty decent photoshop work? The pacifier is so-so, but the baby sun hat is a pretty convincing sell.  Just needs a little more edge blur and depth of field.  Nice!

A company has a chance to look real honorable, big, and ethical in a situation like this where a famed commentator they host might balk the company line.

Thanks.  I generally refrain from commenting on the ratcheting laziness of AVC writers but an article about a trailer without the trailer is truly something.

Much like his Ex-wife, I don’t respect him enough to put two L’s

Wil

Seems like you’re unfamiliar with the concepts of “investigative journalism” and “in the public interest.” 

Yeah, by default I’m on the side of the press, and I don’t claim to understand all the subtleties, but it sounds like a stretch to compare it to this.

How can they not tell him what he is being given charged with? Doesn't that violate the sixth amendment?

“Pro-abortion”? It’s “pro-choice”. Who wants an abortion unless it’s absolutely necessary? You’re using a term that validates the propaganda spewed by anti-choice wingnuts. 

The word you’re looking for is oligarchy. A country owned by the wealthy few, propped up at the expense of the many. The US is a plutocratic oligarchy.