The reviewer doesn't like the politics, and scrambles to come up with some way of panning the movie that sounds like it's just indignant that anyone dares criticize the masters, instead of the masses like Scorsese's Wolf. Abigail Nussbaum did that trick better I think.

Perhaps my thoughts on this are strongly affected by my experience that most people who believe in loyalty quickly find its limits when it comes time for them to sacrifice.

Not only does that imply no moral standards in dealing with outsiders, it's also hard to distinguish the treatment of insiders from the affirmation of identity. It's like the LaCroix couple don't really separate how Kevin is treated from insults to their dignity. Really, this sort of thing is very much like claims…

There were a few laughs, so I guess it did its job.

Maybe it's old age, but brutal women beating people up just doesn't excite me as much as this show needs. And much as I enjoy Leonard Snark and his better half, they don't fit.

Leslie can't read Eric, the team, the assembly very well because her premise is that Eric is the victim is so outrageously false, yet she has to act like it because that's her story and she's sticking with it. Everyone has mutually agreed (except for Eric's mom) that Eric attempted suicide over being outed rather than…

Coach has unthinking adherence to convention. Otherwise he's never really given much thought to right or wrong ways to treat other people. How Taylor was treated by the school was never even an issue for him. He's concerned with praising his good kids. But he also clearly feels that his few moments in practice not…

Strictly speaking, Nate did abuse Taylor, just not sexually.

The opening shots of the series said it was about Kevin/Eric. I'm not convinced it isn't yet.

The police won't investigate so it would be unlikely we get any clarification on the assault. It's pretty clear that the next development comes from the discovery on the computer. I couldn't tell who the man was who dropped the computer off, which I presume is not an accident. It didn't sound like Eric's dad to me.…

Baracus' ability to evade detection by anyone but Liv and Major is worse than an impossibility like zombies. It's an ostentatiously plot convenient implausibility designed to avoid consequences for the protagonists.

But CBS procedurals don't have a distinctive flavor. The NCIS stable has a very different flavor from Elementary or Scorpion or CSI:Cyber or Criminal Minds. I suppose if you don't think there's any real difference between actual biological families and workplace found families, you might think they were the same as…

But the Communists are still much better people than the characters you like.

He's still the hero of the movie. You can't say Hobie was the hero, because Hobie was literally not a human being, but FX. This should have been particularly obvious when he walks out of the impossible stunt into the set.

Because the term is meaningless. Sometimes, it barely means more than "episodic." Other times, it means something like "crime show." Or worse, "boring crime show that sees the criminals as villains and the crime solvers as heroes." That leaves us without any sensible way to discuss shows that help suspend disbelief…

Yet the only show to ever take the procedure of hacking itself seriously, Mr. Robot, was more gripping precisely because it helped us suspend disbelief. (Personally, I was bitterly disappointed with Mr. Robot because it passed on a serious drama about the politics of hacking for a silly melodrama about the lead's…

Sweeney referring to NZT as magic may indicate he knows the premise is shaky but useful for a new light on people and the world in general. Or he may just think it's an easy plot device. I'm hoping the former.

Mythology is almost never competently done. It just services a handful of vocal fans. Limitless so far is superior in the so-called "procedural" episodes. And its over arching story line may destroy it.

Except both funnier and more serious about its characters. And vastly more inventive.

And I never could get past how boring Jim Caviezel's affectless chunk of testosterone is.