Didn't he break her out of the contract the porn studio had on her or something?

I don't mind his singing, it's the smoothed-off Foo Fighters-esque wall-of-sound production on the last record that I'm disappointed with. Songs were great live, though.

To be fair, is there a better band to have been introduced to by a soon-to-be ex than Los Campsinos!? I say that as a massive fan

With a song influenced by Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon!

'Tunnel of Love' is absolutely fantastic. It's basically Knopfler trying to write a Born To Run-era Springsteen track and knocking it out of the park.

The Sandstorm double-episode (which is around #20) I think is roughly where it starts to take off and really become something bigger

I assume they already had it written - it happened with a bunch of things in the first series that something that happened in the show would happen IRL

Not necessarily, of course, but there is a lot of "Eww, it's for girls" subtext to some of the more vocal criticism

George Osbourne on the other hand…

Weird thing is, I'm pretty sure Hitler originally copied the moustache from Chaplain (as an attempt to gain popularity by looking like a popular entertainer - nothing is new…)

Do you know what is cool? Dressing up like a billion Hitlers.

I heard somewhere that he charges on a scale, so smaller, broke bands can hire him for comparatively little

I watched this at Christmas - it was the first adaptation of the book I had seen and I didn't know the twist! It was fun not knowing what was going to happen

I think it was a good adaptation choice to make him less of a dick as they didn't have the time to go deep into why he was such a dick like they do in the comics.

Yeah - I watched the Coen movie and thought 'Wow, their writing style really works in a Western!' and then I read the novel and realised that most of it was verbatim from the novel. It is a very good novel.

Yup - this is pretty much how I feel. I love both, but they are both deliberately doing different things.

Uh huh, honey

I can forgive not being impressed with the first episode, which leant a little too heavy on the 'They're cartoon animals, but, like, rude' thing, but from the second episode on it is absolutely killer("There is nothing the least bit funny about stealing a meal from Neal McBeal, the Navy SEAL.").

Whoops, I haven't actually seen Transparent, I just wanted to make a lame joke about Jenji Kohan…

She got it the wrong way around: you do the pot comedy first then the critically acclaimed LGBT-positive comedy-drama.