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Don't need to. Homeland is the first time a big marquee production has tried to capture the flickering and darkening jewels that Islam is to americans and give an insight (albeit awkward) into the malaise and beauty of the american/islam weltenshaung. We can go back to films like True Lies in the early days of the demonisation of a religion and its peoples and see how far the zeitgeist has come. Even the lead Jew in it is multi-dimensional and somewhat in both camps philosophically.

Yeah the Homeland one. The other thing is you have to view these things from an american audience perspective...Homeland was far more complex a meal than 24. The latter being standard cia inspired fare (not that I've seen any). If we look at say the partisan nonsense dished up in films like 0dark30 and the collaboration with the intelligence community that bore that fruit...Homeland is on another planet. I remember turning to Mrs P when he got the prayer mat out in the grarage and saying a million american voices just cried out in pain. If Star Trek is a vehicle for american foreign policy then Star Wars is a nod to mysticism and eastern relativism.

Yeah but watching a superior product fail is more enthralling than watching a join the dots formula try to shine.

Frankly, in a knockout tournament it's mad to convince yourself that Eng will do badly...We've got some good young talent coming through just at the right time..All the pressure will be on Brazil and Germany...Absolutely nothing to lose.

Mrs P's had a bad back for a few days. Funny as fuck...The German Cylon dithering around like a broken machine.

If Eng did mad shit just before the tournament (sack Hodgson and put Mourniho in charge for a month) they could win it.

It can't be as bad as 24! They missed a trick by not converting the daughter to Islam - who becomes more hardcore than the father etc...

The test just isn't subtle enough. It's beneath me.

England to get knocked out by Brazil in the semis.

Agree with that Stevie...Germans don't fair well outside euro either...Think Belgium will be the dark horses from euro this time.

I've probably over-egged my praise a bit....Most of these things go downhill after a while...

Brazil world cup...Once in a lifetime thing.

Christ that's a bit scary.

Stay frosty!

I'm only going by the first series.

What they didn't know was that we were actaully sleeping in there in one of the storerooms behind the reserve canvases.. And taking our morning coffee in the skylight roof terrace for free. True story.

Rogue male striker.

This whole thing is extremely well written.

Cheese on toast with Lea and Perrins

I don't really know if these 'objects' have value outside of the contextualisation of the art market per se. Probably look good in the bog next to the star wars posters. Back in the day me and a mate got into trouble for swapping prices on canvases in the Pompedeu Paris...Quite the giggle..

Could have put the same stuff in the Tate Modern and sold the lot by luchtime for $10,000 a piece.