The movie is supposedly based partly on a real incident.

I once had to write a paper for a college sociology class and had to search through the Sociology department's database for sources. I wish I could remember the name of the paper, but I distinctly remember one being about multicultural depictions in media, and as one of the examples it argued that "Star Trek" does not…

I love the cynicism of the "wag the dog" scenario, and the public does tend to rally around the flag during times of terrorism and war (thus the reason Bush had 90 percent approval ratings after 9-11), but I have a hard time believing that it would blunt the scandal story enough to keep it from being an enormous…

I've been waiting for another character to turn and look at the camera and break the fourth wall. I half expected Kinnaman to do it at some point, and say something like "why are you listening to him?"

As depicted in the show, America Works is a jobs bill where the United States government takes the money from entitlement programs and gives it to corporations in order to induce them to hire a few new workers.

If you know anything about how politics really works, this show is very distracting. And I know a TV show doesn't have to adhere to realism, but the production seems to imagine itself as a grand Shakespearean tragedy in which the Machiavellian moves of a protagonist continually expand out to envelope and affect the…

I've always liked the theory that Batman is just as crazy as the Joker, especially in his Frank Miller-ish grim and gritty versions, and in some ways a villain himself.

There was an episode where Killinger offered his services to Rusty, and got Venture Industries back on track. Only at the end of it did Rusty realize that Killinger was making him into a supervillain.

That never really bothered me. I mean probably more than half the characters on television speak in "unrealistic dialog." I think I would have hated it more if Kevin Williamson had wrote fake teen-speak for the 30-year old actors.

I don't know how many "Creek" fans are out there. But I always felt this and "The OC" are the classic examples of teen dramas where the first seasons are actually great TV, and the succeeding seasons never really could match it because both shows burned through so much story.

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I've always felt Moore took a lot of the ideas from his work on Deep Space Nine and moved them over to Battlestar Galactica. But instead of the basic decency of characters rooted in Trek's secular humanist sense of morality, the ones of Galactica are much more flawed and there are times when the audience questions…

With the Kasouras, I didn't feel they saw him as a tool to be used or dismissed Childan because of his social status, as much as they became sick of his neediness and over the top eagerness to please.

Not exactly.

Wasn't this also around the same time USA Network played wall-to-wall badly dubbed Kung Fu movies on Saturdays?

I think when this show works, it's basically a version of Dallas with music.

I like this episode, but I always have a hard time believing House would sit down and sort of bare his soul to a bunch of medical students. This was a character whose existence is based on sarcastic deflection and hiding from confronting his pain in puzzles and Vicodin. I would easier believe that he would sit and…

I think this analysis is being very, very kind to the use of narration in the show, since Narcos would be so much better without it.

I know Anthony Hopkins has an Oscar for his particular portrayal, but I've always found Brian Cox's version of Lector (or Lecktor in Manhunter) much more interesting.

Wisconsin and Scott Walker don't exactly help with that argument.