The show is nothing like CSI or NCIS. And even though it's more like The Mentalist in that the lead is the genius, Patrick Jayne was something of a prick on a mission to kill, Brian Finch is a nice guy in a hard place. Which is not quite opposites, but sure isn't alike. If you are still so tone deaf to think these are…

Sincerity is the cheapest virtue of all. It can be bought with self deception. Suppose I copied you and argued that, for instance, some of the Jacobins in the French Revolution or some of the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union surely had good intentions? And protested that you couldn't possibly know every single one had…

I'm sorry I must disagree. It makes about as much sense to talk about well-meaning witch hunters or inquisitors. Or, to stretch a little, well-meaning McCarthyite Red-hunters. There is a powerful element of scapegoating at work here. That is not well-meaning. Displacing all the perils to child sexuality onto a…

For me, the essence of a drama is choice. The large part of the movie is framed as Eddie Mannix's choice to stay on as head of Capitol Pictures. Even for a comedy this is a trivial choice, with no foundation in the movie's world (which doesn't even notice the Korean War,) or in Mannix's personality.

The OP writes "well-meaning police officers, psychologists, and parents inadvertently planted false memories in kids…" The notion they were well-meaning is stupid and vicious. It seems likely the OP can't distinguish between the outrage to his conformism and the quality of the movie.

You and the OP just lost the argument. And nope, you can't back out by claiming it's just a joke.

I don't think we can yet be certain that Eric hasn't made a false confession. I would like some forensic/other witness confirmation of his story, such as a DNA for the semen, or someone confirming Taylor was drinking beer by himself.

Oh, I was wondering why he didn't cut them off when he killed her. I don't see how he could possibly have been confident the body wouldn't surface, especially when panicked.

There are conventions about roller derby players? Their existence seems to be the convention to me.

The phrase "mangled syntax" is an example of how real live people say things in an awkward manner because they're not polishing their dialogue. The line you singled out is not hopelessly inhuman. (And I say that despite thinking "never even" would have sounded more natural…but less articulate, more verbal tic.) When…

You have a point.

One of the bizarre side effects of the slow, slow progress toward equality is that we are getting more pretty young male actors having trouble getting parts when they aren't perfectly fresh, just like has happened for years to most actresses. It used to to only really happen to teen idols.

But I'm seeing Terri and Michael as wanting an official declaration that Taylor lied (and by implication punished.) And I don't think they want lessened punishment for Kevin for the alcohol, they want official approval there was no crime (even though there was.) As I see it the fact of what they're asking for takes…

I think the blackouts are added so they can be easily deleted for the DVD sales.

I think you mean, nobody I would condescend to consider human would ever utter this line. It's true that in movies nobody ever stutters or mangles their syntax except as a signifier of inferiority, but, still…

The show keeps cutting to commercials on a dramatic mini-cliffhanger. Seems to me to be a fundamental structural error. I think they should be cutting to commercials after a punch line, verbal or visual.

Yet somehow Miller doesn't make me think of Petrarch. Perhaps if Miller wasn't so self satisfied with his cynicism, if he needed anything, it would be possible to see him as needing even an idealized love. The few glimpses of Havelock convinced me that man would dare for love. Not all the time for Miller convinces me…

The initial murder hinges on the woman attacking the father, then losing the fight. But convention says that women aren't violent, that the boy friend is lying when he talks about her violence. That the father is lying when he says she attacked him. The real weakness in the plot is that he only needed to cut off the…

Magic bores me. How unfortunate the show is centered on it. But, because Vandal Savage is magic, nothing they do matters. The center of the show is anti-dramatic.

We'll have to agree to disagree, to resort to a cliche. When I see Miller interacting with that strange woman who hangs around him or his boss or his partner, i don't get any sense of someone who genuinely had relationships. I just see poses borrowed from noir movies. And as I said, his love for Julie Mao just reminds…