I agree that BB is better than The Sopranos, but I’d also say Sopranos is worth checking out. The most important consideration, for me, is whether you enjoyed Mad Men (if you saw it, obviously). There is <i>very</i> little “self satisfied mob shit” in The Sopranos past . . . season one? And not a whole lot there…

That’s a brilliant catch. Important to note how ridiculous a setup that situation has to have in a fictional work. Because the concept itself is ridiculous.

They’re winning.

My university cut funding to the LGBT support center, then approved funds to create a center to propagate “fairness” to conservative thought. It was spelled out clearly as wanting to make universities “safe spaces” <i>for conservatives</i>, even after the LGBT building was vandalized.

This thought…

I was hoping the Katrina season would cover the Danzinger Bridge shooting, which definitely could use a light shone on it, but I guess that’s not going to happen. I definitely like your idea much better, though. A little off-topic but it made me think, I’d kill for a season adapting Devil’s Knot or Paradise Lost about…

Here’s hoping Phil Bredesen can bring it home next year.

It’s a shame because The Confession Tapes is so good. I’m a Making a Murderer apologist but I’ll admit that a problem with it is that it’s so subjective and biased. The Confession Tapes deals away with lots of those problems by being incredibly objective. Yeah, it’s making the point that “coercive police interrogation…

One of my secret shames is that 2 Fast 2 Furious is my favorite movie in the franchise so in the particular example, it worked out, at least in my judgement, which I know most people don't share.

That line of thinking kind of bothers me. It might not have been "sexual" in the sense that he was (allegedly) doing it to have sex with the chef. But if you use your sexual organs to intimidate someone, then that harassment becomes sexual.

Still waiting to have a nice, rainy weekend this summer to polish off the last season of Hannibal, so I can relate.

I thought it was pretty sad to see that interview Kyle Machlachlan did a few weeks / months ago where he talked about how he realized now what a great character Cooper was and how grateful he was to get a chance to play him again, which I took as tacit regret that he had (from what I understand) kind of rejected the…

Do we have a general consensus on how we're feeling about the new season? I've got a good feeling about it myself, although I admit that probably isn't worth very much. It's pretty neat how much of a blackout there's been on information about the show. With that going on and Lynch at the helm it actually feels like…

I'm a big Creepshow fan and it seems like that's a missing piece of your very specific movie binge. Actually, now that I think about it, that was a horror anthology with one director. Still!

Surely CBS also has some sort of contract with Netflix regarding CBS' material that's already on Netflix. The one contract being breached doesn't allow the other party to breach another contract. The alternative would be that CBS has some kind of at-will deal with Netflix to keep their stuff up on Netflix already,…

Oh, I don't mean to sound optimistic, far from it. The source of my pessimism is just different. I'd be interested to know where the "humans aren't getting smarter" stat comes from. Anything's possible I suppose but I'm curious.

I would say that an important difference would be that our faith in the electoral system, here in America, is pretty heavily entreanched. Even now, I'd say the majority of people are still wary of voting for someone without a D or an R next to their name, if for no other reason than fear of wasting a vote. So while I…

I think it's especially likely since Trump seems to have blundered into laying the groundwork for that kind of person very successfully: blame the liberal media, vaguely reference conspiracy theories, deny everything else. I know that if I happened to be a neo-fascist with political ambitions, I'd be taking very…

Are we going to have a spiritual successor to this film that stars a character loosely based on Ryan Lochte?

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I don't know about "social unrest" in the sense of mass rioting or French Revolution-style overthrow. But given another financial crisis, I really think the guy who runs for President on the Trump platform next — someone who isn't as lazy / incompetent, dog whistles louder, makes more overt promises — will garner far…

No matter how righteous the content of the monologue is or how skilled the poet happens to be, listening to an entire hour of slam poetry sounds physically painful. But that's just me.