I remember reading gossip about how he would count the number of lines in the script and flip out if Jensen Ackles had more.

$9.5 million? That’s an insane payout. Makes me think this isn’t the whole story.

Counterpoint is great.  I order you to resume watching that series, stat!

I liked The Americans a lot, but it did get ridiculous how often Elizabeth and Phillip’s honeytraps worked. They are very attractive, yes, but aren’t some people going to be faithful to their partners or flat out uninterested? Hotties strike out too.

I was going to boo that comment, but it’s true:  I love all three of those shows (one of them is my favorite of all time) and NONE of my friends watched them (or will watch them).

Blasphemer.  Off with your head!

I haven’t been able to find out any information on the next season premiere date for The Expanse.  It’s making me nervous.

I see no love (or even a hint at noticing) two other shows worth mentioning:  Berlin Station and Counterpart, two shows I’m loving right now and NO ONE is reviewing them.

Yeah, but the show generates revenue for the network, so what’s their incentive not to broadcast it?

I’d take Lily Tomlin as the Snow White she did in 9 to 5, any day.

Why can’t they simply give out awards and allow the recipients to speak for a minute or two?  Why all the fucking dance numbers and singing and stupid set up / punch-line introductions?  No one cares about any of that shit.  It’s an awards show.  Present awards, FFS.  That’s why no one watches these shows.  We just…

I seem to recall Madonna saying something almost exactly the same as that. I’m trying to remember if it was during an interview about that Evita movie she did or her Vogue tour but she definitely said something like “if there are 100 people in a room and everyone likes what I’m doing except for one person, I’m only…

WTF?

Remind me again how the word “exotic” is necessarily a bad adjective to use when describing a culture? I mean sure, some can use the word with a sexually-suggestive tone but the word in and of itself is not generally seen to connote something exploitative, no?

I agree with this post and it also irks the crap out of me when people use that (ridiculous) “cultural appropriation” criticism.

Deus ex machina with a fully unexpected and unheralded third party deus always seemed like the kind of fun classic narrative twist GRRM might have some fun with.

I’ll never forgive them for not paying Michelle Fairley to play Lady Stoneheart. That would have been so god damned awesome. Instead we had to settle for Arya picking off the Frey family, one by one.  Not satisfying.  Not at all.

I’m sorry but proofreading is a part of being an editor (and journalist / professional writer), no? If we’re not going to hold writers responsible for their own writing, can we at least settle on tossing some shit-covered shade at editors for missing errors like that?

Well, I can save you half the trouble: it’s not going to be a (prominent) male actor, that’s for sure.

I am not going to re-argue that all over again. I still maintain that an accusation alone is not something any reasonable person should automatically believe without anything substantive to back it up. And if it shouldn’t automatically be believed, it certainly shouldn’t result in the loss of the accused’s job.