Helen, Kiera and Kate get a pass, because they choose movies like any British actor: like a plumber. You get a call, and are told there's a job, and you give your rate, and you take the job, no matter how shitty it's going to be.

Plus a full movie theatre of folks watching a 3D sci-fi movie at, like, 8 in the morning on a Sunday.

My guess is Frank's presence means Stan doesn't kill the Nightingale (accidentally) in 1997. Just as there was the guy Stan killed in '08 on Raimy's (first) rookie cruise, who lived in the new timeline.

Do the lizard people factor into it? COME ON. DOES A BEAR SHIT IN THE POPE? Of COURSE the lizard people factor into it, that's just a fundamental GIVEN. We shouldn't even have to explain it to you.

Sorkin continues to deal with gender issues poorly.

Please. Any Secret Society Gearpunk Lockbox worth its mystique would shred or destroy its contents if a non-key method was used to unlock it.

"I have perfected the timing of this 'joke' to the microsecond, and the resulted humor will have maximum impact."

I remember someone called Wings "The Standard Bearer for Completely Average Television."

Knives were already out, in some places. Television Without Pity had already gotten their hate-on, for one.

Yes. It's about how someone can take something mundane (like, say, a can of baking powder in a pantry or the make of a typewriter) and add a flawed conceit (like, say, the idea that no element in a Stanley Kubrick movie was anything other than a completely, 100% meaningful intentional choice on Kubrick's part) and…

That was her.

That's a bit of a radical interpretation of the text. The conversation in question was… inartfully written, but the underlying point was that a responsible journalist can't just go on national television and render judgement on someone accused of a crime. As much as he personally believed the woman making the…

I would argue that because of the West Wing, certain parties— like the writers at Television Without Pity— were already sharpening their knives for Sorkin.

Ghostbusters is very much libertarian propaganda.

Reality Bites. Fricking Winona complaining because her dad is ONLY covering her gasoline.

Probably. I mean, they like to keep things relatively yearly for new seasons of returning shows, but it's not like a network, which come hell or highwater will need to have something new to show on Monday at 8PM, so those episodes better be ready.
Though, at the same time, I wonder how Netflix attributes the value…

Hollywood of the 70s was something of a perfect storm of "restrictions lifted on what we can show" and "lack of accountability in how we do things" for tons of abuse like this to occur. Combine that with The Method, and, well… what's more surprising is that we haven't heard of more stories like this.

Cross cut with the bewildered guard outside of Sun's cell in Korean prison….

Given the production necessities, it's not surprising that it will take nearly two years to get season 2 done. But Netflix has an advantage of not having to have a "schedule".

Concurrence.