It's more contrarian than rebellious.

There is a whole subculture of awful megachurches filled with youth pastors with tattoos who think loving Jesus is the most punk rock, extreme thing you can do. They're not socially tolerant. They're using the external trappings of the counterculture to promote fundamentalist Christianity. They honestly believe that…

The target of the show is primarily the media and the way it is used or abused by politicians. That it ends up skewering conservative media and politicians says a lot more about our current culture than any agenda the show puts forth.

I get irrationally angry at pretty much every part of Love, Actually. They even cop out on the only slightly good thing about it by having Bill Nighy and his manager continue to act straight ("let's get drunk and watch porn)" after he confesses his love.

/shouts to the wind
There has never ever ever been a porn movie made that required stand ins, much less ones from central casting, or ones that need to simulate sex.

BDSM does nothing for me, but that was a really good movie, and makes the case much better than these books/movies for a relationship based on mutual exchanges of power.

I wonder if there's an example of a movie that sexualizes the men and women in it more or less equally?

He's also apparently forgotten that Gregson had a wife, which was the whole reason he was in Germany to begin with. But Edith apparently just inherited everything, no muss no fuss.

Here's my favorite detail. Bates thought about traveling to London to murder Green, bought a ticket, then decided against it. But then decided to keep the unused ticket…as evidence that he's not a murderer. First of all, good evidence! Very solid. Even better if you just keep it in an old coat pocket.

In popular entertainment, you can apparently take kids away from their moms or dads forever without them freaking the fuck out. I can barely get my boys into the next room without them making a scene.

Their plan of stationing plainclothes detectives randomly throughout London neighborhoods, all of whom have memorized all the important faces in a possible murder from 2 years prior, is finally coming to fruition.

And Adnan didn't have any history of violence with any other girls, either. And while it seems likely Adnan did ask for a ride from Hae, she ultimately turned him down. Thus far there's no evidence that Adnan did meet up with Hae after school. Nobody saw them together in her car.

Here's one: Jay had violent whims. Sort of like, "I'm going to stab my friend with this knife because he should know what it's like to be stabbed."

So many hot takes here!

Maybe. But it's also true that women rarely get the benefit of the doubt about credit.

According to wikipedia, Corgan wrote the guitar part, Love wrote the lyrics. They've both got 40% songwriting credits.

I remember reading somewhere that Coyne said he wasn't aware of the similarity until they were recording it and Friedman pointed it out or something. *shrugs*

Wayne Coyne said it was unintentional, and Stevens/Islam has a songwriting credit on "Fight Test" now as part of the settlement.

It's kind of mind boggling that in order to feel sympathy for a guy shot in the back by a cop, he has to also have been a good person.

I think it's an interesting character study even if you don't care anything about baseball. I think it's a lot like "The Social Network" that way. It's an easy movie to watch, too.