Yeah I get the nuts and bolts of her involvement. I should have phrased it better as I meant more why O’Malley would want to associate his work with hers. I have to imagine that there was more than one offer as the books, in my opinion, were clearly written with the idea of someday becoming a tv show.

Its a pretty fun book actually and she obviously had no hand in writing it. Why she’s attached to it as a tv show I have no idea.

Owning a house at some point versus owning a house right as you get your first job is pretty different. I like how you think those are the only three places with a high cost of living too.

Buying a house right as you graduate college?

Yeah it really lost me at the we just graduated college and bought a house bit.

My money is on Jaime when he realizes what she’s become and has to be stopped...just like the act that made him the Kingslayer to begin with. I also think he kills himself afterwards because even if it was necessary, killing her leaves him in a world he doesn’t want to live in any longer.

Certainly better than Modern Family which just gets put in every year no matter what. Also the trend of bigger name actors doing TV for the first time getting an automatic nomination continued with Geoffrey Rush for Genius (which was bad and no one watched) and Robert de Niro who, as he tends to do for some time now,…

A lot of of my LGBT friends told their group of friends first before their parents even when we all knew there would be no chance of a negative reaction. The fear is still hard to break that you might somehow be disappointing them in some way.

Attitudes of young people in large swaths of this country are vastly different but not everywhere. There are still plenty of backward brainwashed religious zealots around. And even if their classmates might accept it don’t think that LGBTQ kids or even ones just suspected of being so don’t face harassment from what…

I think a better real world parallel to the Red God worship is Zoroastrianism rather than Christianity. I got the impression that the dualistic nature of the religion gives equal power between the two gods since its a never ending battle. Lucifer is ultimately always subordinate to God within traditional Christianity.…

That is just such a perfect description. Everything is just a little off...where the hairline starts. The fact his eyebrows can’t seem to decide if they want to be thick or thin.

I read it more as he was shocked he did the things he did, potentially blew up a relationship and for the first time cared about it.

That explains why this got picked up so fast then. Nothing fuels Hollywood more than rush copycatting. E.g. all the time travel shows that came out at once this past year.

She’s a pretty great improv actress too. Yet another UCB product.

Maybe watch the show then. There isn’t anything glamorized about the characters. Even the more powerful criminal characters are sleazy redneck Dixie Mafia rather than sleek foreign drug kingpins. This show is grimy as hell.

It really has been nice to see how enthusiastic they got into the meaning behind the story. The one exception being Betty Gilpin, despite how great she was. She was on Marc Maron’s podcast and briefly mentioned filming American Gods and pretty dismissively referred to it as “this video game type thing” with lots of…

That’s just...not science at all. It is as baseless as someone racist trying to claim there is something genetically inferior to non-white groups. If anything, the idea of innate spirituality and blackness is rooted in that when European scientists/ethnologists would condescendingly claim that non-whites were more…

My Mom watches the show and whenever I’ve seen it it seems like they give way more story arcs to the side characters than shows like this usually do, NCIS for instance. It was also nice to see Asian men treated like romantic interests which is an unfortunate rarity.

I don’t think Manny’s born again Christianity has anything to do with not wanting to hurt his opponent. He’s pretty fine supporting violence against the LGBT community because of that religion and also supports Duterte.

That ultimate goal in point number 2 is so very far away still though that any representation, even as unfortunately small as this, is noteworthy. Especially, as the article points out, when its from a company that doesn’t have the best track record with it.