True. But let's face it, a lot of that was about Jeri Ryan in a dress and Kate Mulgrew in a white tuxedo.

Psychotic as in actively hallucinating and dissociating. So no, there are no political organizations of any sort run by psychotics. What they call mad with power isn't the same thing at all. And believing in a group ideology isn't psychotic either. You can go into any church and find people believing crazy things…

Ah, yes, the Maquis! That takes us back to the Space Nazis! Yes, having the enemies of the Space Nazi Cardassians called the Maquis like the RL non-Communist enemies of the Nazis was really on the nose. (As for the relevance to Voyager, I've never seen what the Maquis and Starfleet would have to fight about 70 000…

Careful, people might think you usually like the show. At any rate you are in the minority, Harry is the only character more hated than Janeway. Even Neelix was more popular. There were only a handful of Harry-centric episodes, averaging less than one a year I think, so it must the existence of the character (actor?)…

Voyager was infamous for many things (rarely to the credit of the detractors,) but it was never infamous for underutilizing Harry Kim. It was criticized for Harry Kim, episodes like Timeless notwithstanding.

It really was better with Baitz. Personally once I'd committed to Baitz' characters, though, they made the second season interesting. It took a few years to drive me away.

When the playing field gets evened up by a client who can afford a defense that actually analyzes the police evidence itself, or investigates for itself, or can call its own witnesses, it's quite common for prosecutors to avoid prosecuting if they can. Not going to trial at all is safer for the win/loss record. Police…

In practice, prosecutors are known after the fact to withhold exculpatory evidence (or bury it in a mountain of unrelated facts.) It is rare for them to get into trouble over this. If it happens it's usually represented as guilty parties getting off on a technicality.

Unless they decide to change the resolution in a half-assed effort at creativity? They could be more realistic about their version of the David Harewood character. And I'm not seeing immediately how the Pete Postlethwaite character could translate at all into the US system.

The scenes are so badly lit I couldn't see the blood even as it was being swabbed, much less before. And yes, it did make the swabbing of the deer head eye odd to see.

To be blunt I thought the loudest false note was struck by the repeated insistence that people will work in dim light day after day, year after year, because it makes a moodier, more intense picture for the cameras. When Stone was looking at himself in the mirror his face was shadowed. Nicely metaphorical for his…

As in, you have the opinion that you're a mentally competent person and anybody who doesn't share that opinion is illogical. What swinish bullshit!

I had to quite watching this show because I was interested in the politics, but the mental illness is the real topic. And I couldn't watch it for the mental illness because that's bullshit. The procedural element about hacking etc. is incredibly powerful in helping suspend disbelief, giving an impact of seeming…

Is AV Club really dropping reviews of things like Casual or Animal Kingdom but doing WWE?

This kind of thing is very much like the difference between a fact and a factoid.

Missed this before, but it won't hurt to be said twice, I think.

If Jason Bourne isn't a superhero without spandex, he's nothing.

Part of the reason I'm interested in the inhaler is the comparison to the original (which I've got.) If it doesn't play the same role as in the original, this is taking off in a very different direction. Having seen the original a few months ago, I found it necessary to fast forward some so I'm not sure I didn't miss…

Yes. But where? There are some place where you'd expect to find a stray inhaler, given one set of circumstances, but not, given another. For example, scratches on the hands, arms, face and neck would be more likely to be found on an attacker. Scratches on the back, not. Inhaler in the floor or seat of the cab, or on…

He was hoping he might get laid.