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...scribbling hagiography on a tablet computer - that this is a very different place. But some of creator Michael Green's inventions are puzzling or simplistic. Gilboa and Gath have modern armies, so why are they facing off across trenches as if it were World War I? (Apparently so that David can have dramatic moments walking across enemy lines.) Gilboa is an advanced capitalist state, so how can Silas be manipulated by his brother-in-law (Dylan Baker), who runs a single corporation so powerful it can bankroll the entire government...
...easy to overlook these faults - and Kings' taste for melodramatic cheese, slathered with an overheated operatic score - when McShane is onstage. But Egan's David is an upstanding stiff, and when Egan gets a McShanian monologue at the end of the two-hour pilot, he sounds ridiculous. The subplots involving Jack and Gilboa's gilded nightlife play like a bad marriage of The Tudors and Gossip Girl...
...religion without being snarky or saccharine). Because it has ambitions that broadcasters have all but ceded to cable, and sometimes it even meets them. Because it creates a world rather than borrowing one. And because I'm willing to be patient with a show that has learned sling-wielding David's timeless lesson: Sometimes it pays...
...York Times, “The only bracing symbol of American strength right now is the image of Michelle Obama’s sculpted biceps.” In recent weeks the First Lady’s skin-bearing sartorial habits have become something of a controversy. Co-columnist David Brooks has even gone so far as to assert that Obama, so as not to be known for her “physical presence, for one body part,” should cover up her arms. This is nothing new. Women in the public eye have always faced reduction...
...took care of me like a newborn. She's the kind of person you figure can do almost anything." -Former New York Mayor David Dinkins, remembering how Dr. Hamburg persuaded him to take a tuberculosis test after he spent time with someone who was afflicted with the disease. (New York Times, March...