Oscar Isaac was in Agora, set in Roman Egypt. As near as I can tell that's the way directors in Hollywood tend to operate: Did so and so do a role like this before?

Open ended serials usually repeat the favorite stories of favorite characters. Everyone loves them some Eva Green emoting, so they deliver what the audience wants.

Scare quotes on important? Middlebrow? Junk?
Your sentence is remarkably content free. But if Lincoln didn't sweep the Oscars, or even Selma, then All the Way wouldn't have either. That leaves you with nothing but an insinuation that the movie isn't trendy. But who with any sense gives a shit about trendy?

Well of course Monty Python is the peak in political sophistication!

Well I don't get the little bit of a psychopath concept. So I don't think a genuine psychopath would feel so guilty about lying to a little girl that he couldn't lie convincingly.

The review's thesis that the movie "lionized" LBJ is far more problematic than than anything in the movie. If this is lionization, then a hatchet job must involve real hatchets. The actual political work of the legal enactment of civil rights was just as presented, done by LBJ.

If Healy is a psychopath, why is he acting guilty when he lies to Holly about killing that man? Why does he not kneecap the hit man from Michigan? Why does he listen to Holly and not kill? Why does he get such a charge out of doing something useful for once in the diner?

There are quite a few laughs in this. Do have to note that no, random murderous violence in a comedy does not really comment on the perversity of audience lust for gore. And tossing it off as an aside doesn't deconstruct pandering to gore either.

As Abracabastard pointed out, Eddie has had two visions he doesn't seem to think about, much less discuss, not even with Alison. So I can't buy any transparency.

Much of this is reasonable enough, except for the part about the show's treatment of Hawk/Ashley. The show has had Hawk swipe a generator without anyone noticing. It's even violated physics so that said generator can light Ashley's room without being actually plugged in! Ashley doesn't really have any relationship…

If I was the Light, a "Fuck you!" would seem like ill will, even it I earned it.

Hawk had no intention of giving his mother even a minute to calm down. Ashley had made it clear that it was Meyerism or her (along with her mother,) and Hawk had made his choice.

Eddie said "Fuck the Light!" before if I remember correctly?

I don't know about how it went down with Tessa and Sarah and their parents. But a husband trying to enlist her parents to interfere in a marriage is a dicey proposition at any time. Frankly I never expected anything but support from them for what Sarah wanted. If she'd said she was going to work out a new way of…

Possibly Eddie has arbitrarily decided that there's spirituality and the supernatural but Meyerism is eeeevil, because it's a cult? But Eddie just doesn't think very much. He's never thought about his vision in Peru, which apparently wasn't just about realizing Steve's mortality. I suppose in a way he's just as…

The promise that the Thanagarians will invade Earth in the future suggests we haven't seen the last of the birdies. (Whoops realized that's already come up in the comments.)

As I understand it, Amazon insisted on the resistance to make USians look nobler. But as noted below, that is the opposite of the novel. Worse in my opinion, the first season was far more successful in telling stories about life under an oppressive regime. The resistance story was hokey melodrama. And the time travel…

The home schooling parents want their kids out of school long before sixteen. The peculiar thing is that the Meyerists will wait that long, especially given the harassment of the children by the Christian kids…who of course include the ones who don't go to church. Even kids who laugh at goody two shoes will still…

Well, by this theory Michelle Monaghan is the heroine who is going to push aside the eeeeevil Cal Roberts (who doesn't even believe in the literal truth of Meyerism's supernatural elements, thinking of it as spiritual experiences, no more an actual event than Miranda Frank's seduction of Eddie.) Except it seems to me…

I must be weird. I always use a dust pan and broom instead of sex to protect my children from broken glass.