There's no record of him before 1997, and he had "a car accident or something about 12 years ago."

The Jerry stuff had me asking "Do people who get really high have experiences that they think are similar to communicating with Lodge spirits, or is that actually another way to do so?"

They really did miss an opportunity for a "Sons of Sons of Anarchy in Anarchy" headline.

Finally, someone gets it.

After watching this tonight we watched the pilot to Sledge Hammer!, which is a very different but no less bloodthirsty David Rasche role. (To paraphrase Malcolm Tucker, Sledge is decidedly not a boring psycho.)

I'm finally getting around to this, in the midst of our The Thick of It watch, and this is a great description. I thought of that leaked quote (probably from Rove) about how "We create our own reality"— it's exactly right that this guy has decided there's going to be a war, and he's going to force everything that…

I'm just getting around to the show now, and it's fascinating to read the discussions of UK politics and the Labour Party in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn's rise, the snap election, etc.

I'm just getting around to the show now, and it's fascinating to read the discussions of UK politics and the Labour Party in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn's rise, the snap election, etc.

I don't think she was necessarily a hero only to those people; that's just who she was interacting with that day.

"I got the idea from seeing John Prescott cleaning himself up in the toilets of the Savoy."

Nah. I watched those episodes a ton at the time and rewatched them regularly during the writer's strike. I'm not revising anything.

It did really bother me, though, that we didn't see anything as to why Ben's rationale would have changed (except for the magic wand of "Tibet" that apparently explains away every aspect of this run). I can accept that Selina could be a viable candidate again, but not without knowing why the in-show experts, who think…

Yeah, definitely. There's no nuance to any of the characters anymore. I've been watching some older episodes in the past week (seasons 2-4), and it's a markedly subtler show. Mike gets zingers and wins from time to time, Kent gets shades besides "trivia robot," Selina's relationship with Catherine wasn't so one-sided…

Or anyone else who was there!

I was definitely thinking of Nepal. So I learned a little something today, although Wikipedia says the Tibet region is "almost 25%" of China's land mass, not 35%.

See, it was so cynical that I had a hard time believing any professional speechwriter would put something so nakedly obvious in there.

I think it pushes a lot of Prestige Buttons for critics.

The best 30 Rock episode of all-time was the show's seventh episode. This "it was bad in season 1" idea is some revisionist history that's been spreading. Maybe the first two or three episodes weren't as good as the show would become, but this idea that it was bad for any length of time doesn't wash.

It sounds like it's a lot like Noah Hawley's other show in that regard!

WTF