That was the first song I thought of.

I've never seen The Wire either. Do you think it would still hold up 13 years later, or will it be too dated by New Golden Age TV standards?

I would be totally down if this show was ultimately apocalyptic. That would be a very interesting show to watch.

maybe the satire is simplistic because it's aiming more at farce?

nah, if this were a sock puppet it'd say 'he' DID watch the show and LOVED it!

hint hint? Please tell me it's not someone with three last names.

To be fair, reading that article, she seems to take nearly all of the blame on herself for trying WAY, WAY too hard, and she more or less acknowledges that she had terrible chemistry with the team and especially Jon. But the insinuations that it was something of a chauvinistic boys' club are unfortunate because, true…

I hadn't thought much of the guy playing Paul until now, but I gotta say, he did a hell of an acting job in his final scenes. When he'd look at the message on his phone, and be asked about it and make a bullshit answer and THEN when the conversation moved on and they weren't looking at him, the look on his face was…

Meanwhile, Harrelson and McConaughey are executive producers of True Detective.

Of all the believability issues, the worst is the one they hang the whole plot on going forward: that the U.S. bombing the house of the President of Pakistan is just another drone strike. Seems like a complete declaration of war to me.

If nothing else, he's better than he was in The Cell, the only other non-comedy performance I've seen of his. He looked like a deer in the headlights the entire time, like he'd never been in front of a camera before, and his line delivery was Ed Wood levels of bad.

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I think you give Tom Hanks short shrift by suggesting the scene would have been better served by a more traditional action hero. I understand why you say that in theory, but the fact is that it works in no small part because of Tom Hanks spectacular talent for making you feel what his character feels. Bruce Willis…

so I guess I'm that guy, and I'm wondering why this article is so snarky when AVClub reviews are generally A - Bs. And I can only conclude that Mr. Vanderbilt must be some kind of hater hipster.

I thought the first season was kinda interesting. I've been hanging on since then out of sheer inertia and a lack of summer programming. The bit with Insidious did me in. I'm out.

thank you for labeling that clearly. I make a point of never watching previews for a reason.

I'd assume news travels faster than people since they have pigeons. That one caught up to Littlefinger pretty damn quickly, it seems.

Well I hope that does not bode for Stannis. I'm just starting to warm up to him.

I suspect in 1970, even an IBM mainframe was less valuable than a fifteen-person research team. But yeah, why not both?

She won't have nearly the same issues as Joan because she's more under the radar with the troglodytes, which was laid out brilliantly a couple of episodes ago in and after their first awful meeting with McCann, especially in the elevator. And Peggy not giving two shits what 'the men' think of her makes me think…