The Monk finale was really sweet.

This season has actually been pretty great, with the return of a long-lost friend and a heavy mothering theme (odd for SPN, but working well). They even managed to make me care about the British Men of Letters which I thought was full-stop impossible last year.

He appears to be the American guy in the new season of Fortitude, which is odd.

I'm curious if they'll have Amy and Adam reconnect for a time, as I would imagine going through a trauma like that might enhance some of your emotions for a while. In the moment I'm sure she would have been really upset if anything had happened to him (and vice versa), and that might translate into a short-term…

I think one of the diseases of the right these days is short-term thinking. Not only can they not work out that while they might not need decent health insurance *right now*, they might some day, but they also can't see that making health care unaffordable for other people isn't going to happen in a vacuum that never…

I was thinking it might be worth it to lose one's reporting job for standing up at a press conference and asking whether the NSA considered Trump's deep stupidity a national security risk and if so what they were doing to combat it.

Riggggghhhhhht….but on the other hand, Vegemite. It's a tough call, but I'm going to have to give it to the US.

But when is he going to play Simon Pegg's evil twin in something, I ask you.

At least he's consistent.

Just jump in wherever. It's a great sitcom, with decent continuity, but it's not like you're going to be lost in the plot.

I loved the conversations between Holt and Terry so much. I was welling up at the end, and I love that they actually talked, and listened, which doesn't always happen (irl or on TV).

I wouldn't be surprised if the cases that actually went to trial were weighted toward situations likely to work out for the dad; either the aforementioned Bad Mom or a dad with significantly more resources.

One thing that struck me about the production of the show for Netflix is that only the last three episodes have the 'explicit content' warning. I think, for a show aimed at teens that is meant to be binged, the warning should refer to the season as a whole and appear more prominently. As it is, it serves basically no…

Well, yeah, but the watchers need not be hackers.

I actually wondered if it was a little hint of rebellion, an old piece of jewelry that she normally kept hidden with the bonnet. So it was an extra punch in the gut to learn its true meaning.

I just finished the first episode and I think I need at least a week in between. It's more the past stuff than the present for me. Almost too well done.

A show like GOT is tricky too, because of the discussion/water cooler aspect. Yeah, you watched it early, but no one wants to talk to you for a month.

One of the things that troubles me about the show is that there's a bit of a wish fulfillment thing going on. If you kill yourself you can get the last word with everyone who ever wronged you and they'll have to listen and they can't argue and they'll think about you all the time. I can see that being pretty appealing…

Bless you.

Maybe? I mean, if you have that kind of money I guess you could just go on a beach vacation without paying extra for bands who very well might turn out to be Major Lazer. But I think the idea is that people wanted to be at the 'it' thing and meet people who are Instagram famous. Which may or may not be a fair…