The randomness of Victor Frankenstein had everything to do with his status in the company I suspect. Harry Treadaway was one of the least experienced actors, no star power like Hartnett, Dalton and Kinnear (in England apparently his father was beloved and Rory has captured the good will toward Roy,) and not a hot…

Do you mean the hilarious comedy sequence with the football player unaware of the multiple explosions behind him? Oh wait, that wasn't a joke. The action stuff in Nolan doesn't make sense either. Emmerich's stories are simplistic and the physics are impossible, but that's not the same thing as making no sense. It's…

Had some laughs.

Amunet/Vanessa isn't coming back. She saw God, so she's out of the game, home free in heaven. Being the incarnation of an ancient Egyptian sex demon, she was 1)the most powerful character in the series, never needing to be saved but 2) the one we needed to be saved from. This was as happy an ending as she could hope…

Well, say what you will about Emmerich (like I could stop you,) but his movies usually have some of the most amazingly effective scenes. Blowing up the White House stayed with people better than anything in Nolan I bet. Since superhero movies pretty much resolve everything with a fistfight, Emmerich may have a tiny…

Amunet/Vanessa isn't coming back. She saw God, so she's out of the game, home free in heaven. Being the incarnation of an ancient Egyptian sex demon, she was 1)the most powerful character in the series, never needing to be saved but 2) the one we needed to be saved from. This was as happy an ending as she could hope…

Just saw Yelchin in The Driftless Area, one of his last movies, where he plays a man who dies a freakish death. This was a low budget ghost story but he was pretty good in it, which I can't say for the thankless role as Chekhov. It's an eerie coincidence, like one of Chris Reeve's last roles being a paraplegic.

During morning sex with the husband she wants to get done as quickly as possible, dismisses his talk about pleasing her, doesn't remind him that the girl is up, jokingly threatens to punish him for his performance, suggesting an unconscious desire. Then in the evening she nevertheless submits but sex with her husband…

"The biggest problem with the “demon of the week” structuring is—and this is the case with many procedurals—that there’s little to no backstory informing the episode’s plot."

Scorsese finishes The Wolf of Wall Street with a scene that attacks the audience for being the real source of Belfort's success. Or possibly for being fool enough to sit through the entire movie. So we should get a cut of the damages.

There is a secret password among a tiny minority that say: The director is the one who screws up the script. No doubt it made sense on paper that the Reverend would get frustrated when he couldn't find the pic of his son. But the director who thought that we could watch Philip Glenister morosely kick at tufts of grass…

Having read the book before seeing the series, it seemed to me by the end of season two the series had lost its soul to lurid melodrama. Sounds very much like I made a wise decision when I didn't trouble myself over the third season.

Maybe I'm getting confused on what you're claiming. I thought you were claiming that the Clintons were and are the preferred candidates. Deregulation and NAFTA were favorite policies for Wall Street, to be sure, but Dole then or Jeb Bush now would also have pushed tort reform; privatization of Social Security;…

Maybe my fondness for mystery novels misleads me, but wouldn't the guy be asking for suspicion when he keeps sitting there without his pants down?

You can ask Perot voters who their second choice might have been, but unless you ask whether they would have hauled ass to the polls to vote for their #2, you got nothing. No, I don't know for a fact Clinton only won because of Perot. I do know that the media coverage was completely different because of him. I think…

And then it was Citigroup that really got the big payoff from Clinton! Goldman Sachs had to wait to really get returns from its investment in Clinton in 2008, after the crash. Except of course, that was Obama.

If we dispute a parking ticket we lose. So you're saying Clinton will be indicted and convicted with no more hope of getting off than we do in traffic court?

It's amazing how people have forgotten the incredibly hostile reception to Bill Clinton, who I think only won his first election because of Ross Perot. He was instantly greeted with a fake firestorm from the military about gays. The lawsuit that led to the revelations about Lewinsky wouldn't have been promoted by…

Even though it seems the series lost AV Club at "TNT," this has promise. The scene where Smurf reinforces dominance (in the guise of domestic service) by stripping J is somehow mundane, comic and sinister at the same time.

Getting a blow job isn't particularly gay, so Deran's gayness is still up for questioning. His embarrassment at J's arrival is very suggestive though. The real point [issue, not point, sorry] is his closetness. If the dude's not dating, Smurf knows. And likely, Baz.