absolutely. and then she just disappeared into thin air...

yes to both points. there is one south asian actor in the film as one of the folks from one of the banks that takes a meeting with one of the guys and then laughs behind his back. he is in the film for a total of less than 5 minutes, but he does at least speak. so there’s that! (sigh)

i think mad men would have been a good show to do in the perspectives of the respective characters, i.e. like Lost. and not just a few mins per episode, but literally each episode being from the perspective of a different character or two. it would have allowed the show to incorporate a lot more diversity. imagine an…

this is a case of what i like to call the “Mad Men Excuse.” in short, you base a film or tv show around a perspective, group, and/or industry during a period in time in which said perspective, group and/or industry is predominately white and then give that setting as the reason your film or tv show must be…

or not assumed that they did not speak english...

maybe it thought she was typing in portuguese (in which case, she would have been correct)

yeah. i really wish they’d just keep his name out of their mouths altogether. there needs to be a moratorium on any mentions to the man or his legacy until further education on the subject can be implemented...

their surgeons probably followed a similar key. (and that is not a joke; vergara has been open about getting work done)

i am guessing Colombia is spelled with a U throughout this piece as a dig at harvey, right? if so, well played.

two words: diabetic coma

has linda perry murdered someone? her teardrop tattoo is making me wonder...

try eshakti! you can customize your clothes based on your measurements and/or by way of sleeve length, hem length, neckline, etc. it’s amazing. they always have mega sales and codes you can apply on top of that. they put out los of new dresses every day. and i (kid you not) have bought over 50 dresses from them in a…

so on the nypd part: they are often slow to respond. plus, brownsville is a very poor, predominately black, and nowhere close to gentrifying neighborhood. in other words, the police DGAF.

i really REALLY do not understand the logic behind the idea that gun laws are broken a lot so we don’t need them. we have lots of laws. they are broken on a daily basis. that doesn’t mean they should not exist at all.

definitely. i’d say the same thing for simon baker and matthew rhys.

and to be more specific, this is not just a question of daring representation, but also representative of *actual* white muslim populations who, due to the Orientalism (in the Said sense) i mentioned above, are “darkened” in the Western imagination for political reasons.

she looks so different as a brunette!

yes, re: race, though in a strange way, this is kind of subversive. the construction of arab/muslim in the west has often relied in part on separating “us” and “them” by way of skin color. arab people (and, by default, muslims) are seen as “brown,” so by featuring a white woman here (ethnicity and religion, of course,…

ha i just wrote something similar. i agree!

there have been some slightly empty comparisons between these guys and ISIS, but i think this particular move - of staying despite requests by the suspects to do the opposite and expressions that they do not speak for them - makes them *very* much like ISIS, who, lest we forget, is made up primarily of people from all…