I hated it when it was in its heyday, for exactly the same reason you and everybody else loved it: she was over-the-top rude to a lot of basically harmless idiots, and I was young, and it struck me as The Man trying to oppress The Little People. I got back into it maybe ten years ago, and it's a much different…

Yeah, that's my least-favourite thing about the show—-the fiction that these people are actually paying for the judgments against them, that she's levying certain judgments in a punitive way, and/or that defendants are stupid for coming on the show. "You have no case! If you have no case, why did you come here?" Well,…

That's interesting: I'm usually pretty intense about any kind of racial/misogynistic/classist microaggressions, and I (mostly) just don't see it with Judge Judy. Do you see this in her behaviour, or more generally just in the "casting" (i.e., how the cases heard on the show tend to depict women/people of colour/poor…

Hey, I like that idea of it as a sequel!

It's definitely going to be interesting. On the surface, this exact comment is far too close to S1 Alicia to appeal to me - we've seen this she's-never-known-hardship story before. But on the other hand, the interesting wrinkle is that Maia seems more humble about her wealth and privilege than Alicia did.

In my opinion, I have mixed feelings about how close this show is, tonally, to The Good Wife. It's certainly far closer than any other spinoff I can name. It may go in different directions thematically, but in terms of the look and feel of the show, this was an episode of The Good Wife, and it feels dishonest to me to…

Dude, it was a joke about your name being "Fistinyourface". Obviously no one should actually think you're a Nazi—-that's messed up, and shouldn't get a pass.

Excellent username/president synergy.

Ha ha ha! What a story, Mark!

In fairness, if I were a black person and a big bald German guy had his fist in my face, I might make that assumption too.

Hey, buddy, spoiler! I would have assumed that "Death Beds: The Bed That Eats" was an essential part of the canon.

This may be the first time I've ever seen anyone name-drop Higher Learning on a pop culture website, Higher Learning being neither pop nor culture.

I don't think this has come up yet, but did anyone know that in addition to being a wrestler, this fellow played Tor Johnson in "Ed Wood"?

They weren't playing.

As pilots go, this was okay. I love the cast. The writing isn't quite "good", but it isn't as bad as Heigl's last show ("State of Affairs"). As a huge fan of "The Good Wife", I don't think this show has quite the same spark, but also, we're one episode in. If "The Good Wife" is an A and "Madam Secretary" is a C-…

If I learned one thing from "Friends", it's that talking smack about your show's writers is a good way to end up at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

I think the key word in Phil Not Phil's comment was "her".

I had never realized before: the dumb guy who runs for president against Jed Bartlet in "The West Wing" is named Robert Ritchie, which is also Kid Rock's name. It's like it was meant to be!

Not in *this* dancery, you don't.

I made another comment about how Julia exists in one of my (relatively few, I think) complete pop cultural blind spots. While I have heard of Family Affair and The Courtship of Eddie's Father, I'm certainly not *as* familiar with them as I am with the Gilligan's Island epoch and the All in the Family epoch. Thank you…