It's because touchscreens are driving web design. Tablets and phones encourage sparse, graphics-heavy layout.

You don't need to barbecue brisket to make it edible either. Braised, roasted, suadero, etc. All are capable of awesome.

"____ ARE really good when you're drunk"

Oh Bridget Regan… *forlorn sigh*

"Race," "breed," and "species" are all ultimately arbitrary constructs. None of them reflect fundamental physical nature. Sexual reproduction of fertile offspring is a useful criterion (it reflects the effect of reproduction on natural selection), but a limited one. Many organisms reproduce asexually, some species…

I finally saw this. Holy shit, definitely the best film on the financial crisis (not many of them though). Truly great performances. Very sharp screenplay (that reminds me of Altman's Network). One of the most realistic, deepest Wall Street movies ever made.

We really need another genre term proximate to cyberpunk. That term implies dystopia, social alienation, and rebellion (note the "-punk"), none of which are really evident in POI. Technothriller, maybe? Ugh, I hate that one. How about just "futurist?"

One wonders how the Machine was programmed to solve ethical problems. Does it prioritize American lives over others? How does it respond to nonlethal terrorism (like a Tyler Durden) or economic threats? Does it care about questions of human welfare, or is it just designed to maximize hours-of-human-life?

There are structural reasons why POI's perspective on surveillance will be narrow and simplistic. In the real world, the marginal security benefit of ubiquitous surveillance is vague and probably small. But in POI's fiction, the world is rife with terrorist plots and criminal conspiracies, and the data analysis is…

Paul Ben-Victor and Enrico Colantoni (Elias) look like they could be brothers. Maybe the similarity between Vondas (from The Wire) and Elias helps.

Seriously, an A-?  The episode oscillated between smug self-congratulation and manufactured melodrama.  Every plot beat felt painfully manhandled.  It was like The Newsroom with extra sex.

Nothing deprives a story of romance like a writer indulging a 'shipper's base instincts.  But Whedon is usually pretty good about this sort of thing, so I wouldn't worry.

Incorrect, "Rising Tide" are established as a pro-transparency group who hack and then publicize the location of the tech belonging to a black market dealer. The hostile dudes are never identified, but implied to be unknown opportunists there to steal the tech as well (or maybe guards?).  Skye's interrupted speech…

I clicked because of the BSG photo.  You know your audience well, AVClub.

But blouse is not scalar.  We must invert by Gaussian elimination.

You should listen to his episode of The Indoor Kids: http://www.nerdist.com/2013…

This show is at its best when it reminds me of Ghost in the Shell. 

The biggest villain for now, perhaps.  But winter is coming. You haven't forgotten about the hordes of ice zombies, have you?

Odd that no one is comparing this to Louie.

There is a serious lack of stoner heroines.  I demand more.