FWIW - Cult leaders typically don't embrace birth control since they are invested in having as many people in the cult as possible - but libertarians don't have any objection to it. It does seem like the ranch isn't a cult and the Ottos aren't West Coast version of the Governor. They just happened to embrace an…

I think they crossed that Rubicon when he ran the scam on the widow to get his share of the Sandpiper payout.

Also, some video stores just didn't get around to clearing out the new releases. I mean, with Gilligan, he could write a season that takes place across a weekend or he could time jump to the first week Walt cooks meth. I hope the show is popular enough that he gets to use his own ideas for pacing - but if they yank…

My wife didn't like Breaking Bad because she doesn't like shows with anti-heroes as a rule. I tried to trick her into watching BCS because she didn't know it was a spin-off but it didn't work - it was too slow for her.

What they communicated was a blackout. It was a blackout. This isn't Walking Dead.

"the show’s social commentary can be very hit or miss." - i.e. "If I agree with the point of the satire, it's a hit. If I don't, it's a miss." Seeing reviewers complain that Tina Fey's humor isn't liberal enough for them is really tiring for someone who isn't a liberal.

I guess it would be really small amid all that was stupid to wonder how the tiger knew which side to attack when unleashed?

i made a comment about how the garbage people seemed to have built their post-apocalypse society as a homage to Planet of the Apes Movies from the 1970s for no apparent reason. Really, it's the only community they have ever presented on the show that makes absolutely no sense no matter how hard you stretch it.

Interesting how the coverage wants to point that it's not a big deal the character is gay - and then proceeds to tell us absolutely nothing else about her.

My geek is weak. Thanks for the reminder.

I was talking to a friend about this last weekend. So you need a charismatic martial artist to play the lead. I get it if you have to choose between a talented actor and a talented martial artist because the ones who are both are too expensive - but why choose someone who is neither?

In the comics, Colleen did lose an arm to be replaced by a bionic one - I figured that's where they were going - but then they didn't.

Forgive me if I'm not remembering this correctly - but Penny's alignment with the librarians in the book was basically the best he could do without hands and he wasn't conflicted about joining them. He needed a new motivation to sign on in the show since they didn't want to take the character's hands away (too hard to…

The second two books would be really expensive (like Game of Thrones expensive) to shoot so the show has basically abandoned them. The original plot also would mean Alice would be missing for at least a couple of seasons before returning, so major change there as well to keep the actress in the picture, as it were.

I was also wondering why this new band of survivors seemed to base their post-modern society on 1970s "Planet of the Apes" movies. It would be nice if the script addressed that.

Beloved Vancouver Canuck Captain Trevor Linden.

The premise is the only remotely interesting thing about this show. And it's kind of spoiled to know that it's a conspiracy backed by an oil company with the surviving Republicans fronting for it.

That should totally be his sidekick.

The way that Mike's man-cave called back all the season's previous arcs was also pretty well done.

My wife and in-laws are also Asian. And they are all accountants, engineers, doctors and nurses. I'm not sure they would have recognized Rock's Oscar bit as a joke.