So if Eli's counterpart in the Prady campaign operates anything like Eli himself, then it's perfectly possible he visited that television studio just to mess with him and make him react to a candidacy that didn't yet exist, hoping that his reaction would goad Prady into running. Such a gambit would neatly echo Eli's…

Interesting. I suppose we all stopped at the "cunning" pun and didn't look any further…

I just want to say that I love your avatar.

I assume you'd be surprised to read (as I was at the time) that Trump actually talks very much like a woman: according to research, mentioned in a Politico article last October, his speaking style is by far the most feminine in the sample examined, which comprises 35 political candidates from the past decade.…

Liked after four years for "MacGuffin-Man".

And nothing still (as of 02:41 a.m. EEDT 12 Apr. 2017). I wonder whether The Good Fight has made any references to ChumHum…

And nothing still (as of 02:41 a.m. EEDT 12 Apr. 2017). I wonder whether The Good Fight has made any references to ChumHum…

No, but I counted three references to the Odyssey, which I hope doesn't mean we are about to get another ten years of Michael Scofield breaking out of prisons in tropical countries.

People are still reading these reviews and comments while going through the episodes. If you are spoiling later developments, please don't.

I remember that one: the doctor had just said she was not a stereotype, so it followed from there. One reason I remember it is that I didn't get the joke and had to look it up, being unaware then of what people thought about Asians' driving skills.

This might be a good opportunity to mention that the Singer Building was the tallest building ever to be destroyed until 9/11. Apparently Wikipedia has a "List of tallest voluntarily demolished buildings" now, the main purpose of which seems to be to exclude the Twin Towers and their like, as opposed to this.

Stalin did it. The so-called "wedding cakes" he liked were largely influenced by Beaux-Arts and Art Deco skyscrapers in the United States that few people would call ugly (see gallery here).

It does make sense, especially now that it's easier than ever to build and run them; it's just the "race to the top" that tends to produce inefficient buildings. The taller you build, the more space you need for lift shafts and other core functions relative to usable office space, not to mention how inconveniently…

I, ahem, gained access to Desyat Negrityat years ago, being determined not to watch a film adaptation with a "happy" ending. Unfortunately I was unable to find suitable subtitles at the time, so I couldn't watch it; I only saw a few scenes to get a feel of the place and atmosphere, being already familiar with the…

Same here. It is one of my life's ambitions to visit London one day, and when I do, be it in five or thirty-five years, I want to attend a performance of The Mousetrap without knowing how it ends (or much about it in general, if possible).

I already knew about the twist when I started reading the book, so there's that. Wikipedia had spoilt it for me, when it was still a new thing and relatively unfamiliar to most people (2004 or thereabout). The funny thing is that it still warned about spoilers in its articles, which seems rather quaint in retrospect,…

I don't know how to say this more politely, because I don't watch the show so I can't comment on the episode itself or the review thereof, but there's a typo in the title: incestous rather than the correct incestuous (I noticed it in the sidebar of another review).

Birdman is fairly recent, but the Spiderman film premièred in 2012, so the time-frame sounds at least plausible from my end. (What is less plausible is that someone would choose to reboot the franchise a decade after the previous instalments. I haven't watched The Amazing Spiderman partly out of sheer disbelief that…

They still managed to get doubts in about the whole "the glove doesn't fit" theatre, which is a good indication that at least some of the jurors didn't simply buy the defence's case wholesale.

Wait, they called the dog "Kato"?