I dunno, there’s that scene where Edith waterboards Mary in an attempt to get her to stop being such a bitch, but then Mary’s into it and Edith gives up after five minutes.

Sounds dreadful.......’ think I’ll stick to Downton. – maxadrian, tynemouth, December 2014

I can see why! Sorry for posting that without considering your point view.

Ask James Somerton how this kind of thing turns out.

Well, since I never get out of the greys here any more, I’ve been replaying Dishonored 2. Actually, I can’t recall if I ever finished it first time around.

I suspect the lack of residuals is because a lot of these shows were filmed in the now defunct Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, which was set up primarily to get around the unions and labor laws in L.A. Nickelodeon eventually moved its television production back to L.A., but anyone carried over from the Orlando era was…

Really?!? You can be sympathetic to the guy who was used, abused, and molested as a child? That’s some sociopathic thinking.

Right? That’s blowing my mind. I’m not in the industry, but I just assumed residuals were always a thing. Are Nick shows not union or something?

Wait, is it still that way under the current contract? Workers under the age of 18 aren’t entitled to residuals?!

*EDIT*: I re-read that. Nick doesn’t have to pay them residuals? I thought residuals were a requirement if you were not a certain class of guest star, etc?

The first season is flawless TV, and Smart is absolutely phenomenal.

Jeez dude, it’s just a review of an uneven comedy show. No need for all the vitriol.

Real edgy my man. I imagine you spend more time thinking about gay people than most gay people.

Except John Candy was actually funny 

For season 1 he was also cribbing heavily from not only Chambers’s The King in Yellow (which was, of course, explicit) but also works by Laird Barron and others—especially Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, from which whole monologues by Cohle are lifted. Accusations of plagiarism got thrown…

As I’ve written before, it just really feels like this was pitched as a 2 hour movie with heavy supernatural elements that HBO decided to expand and graft onto an existing franchise, with not so good results.

I agree, with so much debate a few weeks back about how S4 was a “return to form” I felt that conversation overlooked a very good S3. The acting was fantastic, Ali/Dorf had wonderful chemistry, and the dialogue felt a bit more natural than S1 (though that also made it a bit less memorable). Also, it balanced three…

I suspect you may have missed that after what some felt was unjustified criticism of the first couple episodes, someone set up an entirely new subreddit, TDNightCountry, that made it a point to moderate the dogwhistling and was generally filled with positive comments about the show. It apparently became the the…

I liked Season 3. It’s an interesting story with what I thought was a good resolution. Also, the acting is really good.

There was *plenty* to criticize about Season 4 that had nothing to do with gender or race.

....why would he do that?