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I liked Bob and Sasha's thing - it was a supporting character story, but it worked for me. I just hope Sasha's role continues to grow, because I think Sonequa Martin-Green is great. She easily surpasses Tyreese for me at the moment. I love Chad Coleman and always will for Cutty on The Wire, and I think he does a great job on the show but they desperately need to evolve Tyreese. I still can't believe Daryl and Rick went along with his terrible, terrible plan. I like Tara, but I could lose her without much problem. I think adding her, Abraham, Rosita and Dr. Liarpants all at once was a mistake. I don't care about Rosita or Abraham (or poor Seth Gilliam as the priest) and I don't see that changing unless a bunch of people I'd rather be watching die to give Rosita more time to grow, and I'd find that unfortunate.

I liked Lori and Andrea - Lori in particular was a far more compelling, three-dimensional character on the show thanks to Sarah Wayne Callies, as opposed to the often-shrill caricature of the comics (most characters in Kirkman's comic were a variant on shrill or crazy, really). I think they tried to push her into a box at times but she was too good an actress, and the material for her ended up being pushed forward and ultimately improved because of it. Same with Jon Bernthal and Shane, I'm sure, among other characters (Carol, etc. who's very different from the comic). Andrea is a survivor and Rick's eventual mate in the comics, but that character's also very different. Laurie Holden, I thought, impressed me with her strength and force immediately; she's a great actress. The problem is they didn't seem to understand who they wanted her to be - an idealist? a politician? Someone's ideological counter? They didn't seem to know where she was going, but I'm sure part of that had to do with the two or three different showrunners during her time on the show. If they had ever intended for her to be a lifer on the show I think that went out the window fast. I think Andrea on the show ran her course - she tried to effect change, did her best for people, and sacrificed herself. They were wonderful actresses. But I think the show moved beyond both those characters - they don't really suit who this unit and family are now. I can't imagine them with the group today, maybe Lori who got much stronger, but not Andrea, who was, I think, while strong, also always trying to find a way to roll things back to something better. The difference between her and Hershel was that Hershel was able to build something in the here and now, as best he could.

Cosby's career is gone - this ain't over yet.

I know you did. I was being dryly sarcastic. In other news, the NY Times goes all in on Cosby selling an interview to the Enquirer to shut down the sexual harassment story - he acknowledged it in sealed sworn testimony. It does not mention, at least not directly, his allegedly selling them the story of his daughter's addiction.

Troubling, thanks.* * - I mean that in the nicest way, but really, what can one say

What was your first clue?

Catherine E. Coulson interviewed again for a Philadelphia arts site. Nothing new about 2016, but some nice anecdotes about her long history with Lynch and her other work. I didn't know Lynch came up with that tattoo on Margaret's leg that indicates her connection to the Lodges - we keep hearing little tidbits now from actors about where he stepped in late in the second season, at times when a lot of fans and critics assumed he had all but abandoned things before the very end.

Does the raven have a popular kids' movie out? No, it does not. Suck it, raven.

New promotional website for Season 5: Three Eyed Raven With accompanying video at GOT Twitter.

Cosby's mistress (the one revealed in '97) claims he also raped her.

Aaaand another one.

Cosby's nephew comes out defending him, and using what must be called an unfortunate Biblical analogy.

More on Cosby and the tabloids. Page Six is alleging he leaked his daughter's drug addiction to kill a story about his playboy past.

Acclaimed GOT director Michelle MacLaren has been signed to direct Wonder Woman.

I'm usually kinder to quieter episodes than most - I thought last week and Beth's episode were both excellent. This episode was not quiet, but it was filler and relied largely on people being deeply stupid. Tyreese's weak-ass plan is borne out of his own fear of this world, and Daryl is feeling his feelings and going too far off his own instincts. It will not work. And Sasha was an idiot - who didn't see that [!@#$%^&*] coming? I just pray she doesn't buy it next week. I still barely care about Abraham or Rosita but I guess we're stuck with them for the moment. And I love Seth Gilliam but I just do not care about the cowardly preacher. Weakest episode I can remember in a very long time. Not as boring as last year's Daryl/Beth two-hander - Beth has come a long way this year, BTW - but far more stupid.

That one's not new but the article is decent.

It was fun for me. I hated that bitch.

Too many people have paperwork. He can't keep handling this situation like he's belittling fuckin' Theo. (I never liked how they treated him on the show)

Ohhh, boy.

Believe me, it took all I had to not make a crass "Billboard Top 100" joke after the last accuser, but then I decided even I am not that sick.

There were a few blind items floating around recently that could have easily pertained to Lisa Bonet - a female ex-sitcom star debating whether or not to speak publicly on an emerging scandal. I think if she did his life as he knows it would be over, even more than it already is. People know who she is. It might keep the show off the air even longer. But she would also become despised by a number of ignorant people.

A poem written by Sheryl Lee, along with a personal diary entry from shortly after filming Fire Walk with Me.

Yeah, another one.

I think it's as simple as no one telling Bill Cosby what to do. He thinks it's still 1989 and he still rules the world, that he is America's patriarch. I don't think anyone is going to make him bend on this until and unless he (or his family) decides he has to. That's how he comes off in the two appearances on-camera where he was forced to address them. Threatening one reporter, mutely shaking his head at another. A denial of reality other than his own. That being said, his speaking on it in Florida surprised me. I think he may be getting rattled. In another week or two he may be trying to do Diane Sawyer (or far worse, Barbara). Or he may double down.

Cosby calls the accusations 'innuendos' at a Florida show (one of few not cancelled).