I’m with you on the movie. And the clip that I saw of this miniseries where the titular Catch is discussed wasn’t as good as the version there.

Mike Nichol’s Catch-22 is both my favorite Nichols film as well as my favorite war comedy. I have no idea how Altman’s M*A*S*H became so much more successful.

Netflix isn’t letting One Day at a Time appear on any other streaming platform. Might Amazon block this from moving similarly?

Your the first fan of the Hanna adaptation I’d heard of. Everyone else regarded it as inferior to the movie (although Kate Kulzick hadn’t seen the movie and could only do so implicitly). I wonder why the guy who wrote the original screenplay isn’t involved.

If you look at the graph breaking down police killings by race, New York actually isn’t #1 in terms of absolute numbers (despite the ordering you quoted). My own city of Chicago ranks above NY in terms of the total number of blacks killed by police (and appears right above NY in the graph), despite having a smaller…

I can’t very well object to that first link since I just recommended it to someone else for proving my point: the NYPD has a lower rate of police killings than the vast majority of other cities. The total number is larger than many other cities because the total population of New York is the highest in the country.…

The movie is set in New York and features a police shooting. I pointed out that the NYPD has a very low rate of shootings compared to other major cities. It also has a low homicide rate generally speaking, but per https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ there isn’t actually that much association between rates of violent…

It’s discussed in Jaime II in A Storm of Swords. Cersei claims that she’ll be able to arrange Jaime’s appointment, and shortly after Jaime agrees he’s notified that he’s been chosen. It’s not explained how Cersei was able to do it, but it’s clear that Jaime’s motivation is Cersei, not “protecting the innocent”.

Aegon appointed his (supposedly) half-brother Orys Baratheon as the new lord of Storm’s End, cementing his rule by marrying into the Durrandons who’d previously held in. But as far as I know they haven’t appointed a new one since in the books, and in the show Dany did so after the existing Baratheons died out (plus,…

Eric Garner died in a chokehold, but how do other big city police departments compare? It seems to me that if most of them became more like the NYPD, there would be fewer killings.

As Tywin was in the city sacking it, it’s still a matter of Jaime choosing to save his family rather than innocents of the sort he will subsequently harm without a care.

That’s Aerys’ motivation. I was explaining Jaime’s.

Since this is set in New York, it seems worth noting that the NYPD has one of the lowest rates of police shootings in the country. Other cities could learn from them.

If he had really lost his fighting ability, then he shouldn’t have been able to kill Euron. The show has just ignored that handicap of his in combat this season.

He became a Kingsguard on Cersei’s suggestion, as she thought that would keep the two of them together and foil Tywin’s plan to marry Jaime to Tysha.

Jaime showed his indifference toward innocents back in the first season. He killed Aerys when his father was sacking the city and Aerys ordered Jaime to bring back Tywin’s head.

Absolute monarchy emerges when central authority grows at the expense of the feudal nobility (a la Louis XIV). In Westeros those nobles still retain plenty of their own privileges, which the monarch can’t abrogate. The crownlands don’t have much of a military on their own, so they can only muster force against said…

I don’t know how involved he is now since he’s also developing a show for Netflix.

Book of Henry was a flop. Game of Thrones has been massively successful for years, and remains so.

Westeros isn’t actually an absolute monarchy (or it hasn’t been since the dragons died). Aerys tried acting like one by executing lords without trial, so he was overthrown. Note that Tyrion has twice requested a trial by combat and each time his demand was met.