Actually, no. As a white person, it's pretty easy to live in a bubble thinking this type of overt racism doesn't actually happen anymore but it does. I know, because I'm white and I've been in that bubble. We hear about it more when it happens to POC who already have a platform for discussing race because they…

I'm just surprised his desk is so messy. I did not expect that.

people like this make me embarrassed to be from Missouri.

Can someone call the EMT's? I think I'm having a rage stroke.

That too. They were trying to keep it too close to the tone of the original and comedy sometimes doesn't translate well cross-culturally. I think all the shows being referenced in this article (except for Are You Being Served) are dramas, though, which generally don't need to be remade in the same way a comedy might.

right, if I'm on the pill I don't need a period tracker and auto-refill is pretty universal making the whole app kinda pointless for me in that instance. Even if auto-refill was not available at my pharmacy for some reason, there's still like a hundred calendar apps where I could simply set a monthly reminder re: the…

I agree, I would love it if the networks would just pick up some of these international hits for regular broadcast instead of remaking them.

Exactly! A (brief) sub-plot on an existing family drama? Yes. A whole multi-episode series? No. Even with the great cast I'm unlikely to watch it. I'll be interested to see how it does, ratings-wise, though.

actually, I would contribute $$ to this science if the resultant pack of hell-bear-dachs-hounds can be released upon the world into the Fox News HQ.

see, now, that's what I'm talking about. this is an ingredient that's legit injuring/killing sea life but that many people may not have realized. A list of these types of problematic ingredients and their unintended consequences would be a good future article for this column, I think.

chicken nuggets- meh.

doesn't science have something better to do than perfect bear-dachshund interspecies crossbreeding?

wat. Why would someone use a period tracker app if she's on the pill? The refill reminder I can sorta understand... (except, not really. Auto-refill is everywhere now). I'm side-eyeing this. What are they going to use this data for?

Mostly I agree with you, remakes of foreign show are generally unnecessary and don't live up to the originals. The Office, of course, being a notable exception and the rainbow the US networks are chasing.

Yay, this sounds like it will be a voice of reason in the beauty product ingredient woo hullabaloo. I really hate all the 'don't use products with y ingredient!!!11!' hysteria and when you ask why not you get 'derp derp, it kills unicorns, derp' type of reasoning. uh, yeah.

I'm with you- I totally think Amy Sedaris could do it, monologue and everything. I love when she's on Letterman, she pretty much interviews him instead of the other way around and is generally a delight in every way. The guest hosts are all just having their friends on, anyway, so she'd probably have her brother and…

meh, that's about right. I mean, that's how small children address their pre-school teachers, so...

It's almost as if it never occurred to him, even once, in his entire "career" as an "artist", that the entire point of creating art is to, y'know, have an impact on your audience beyond the 2 minutes that they are actually standing in front of the work? Maybe?

So, can I just crowd-fund my life now? Is that how this works?

I just really hope this woman is his only victim but I know the odds of that are probably slim. How many other "girlfriends" has he drugged, raped and gas-lighted (gas-lit?) but who don't have video evidence of their assault?