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Alan: Americans is also extraordinary. Don't bother with House of Cards. Highly overrated due to the Netflix factor. A dumb show that thinks it's a smart one.

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Alan: The Good Wife, but only if Margulies and Panjabi are injected with truth serum before their interviews.

Matt: Twin Peaks.

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Matt: I believe that eventually it will in some form, even if it's just as a movie. The core cast seems as affectionate towards Hannibal as the core cast of Deadwood does towards Deadwood.

Alan: Yeah, but we still don't have a Deadwood movie.

Matt: Milch is calling up actors and reading them their scenes on the phone. I think we're much closer than you think we are.

Alan: San Francisco cocksucker!

Matt: Over time, your quickness with a cocky rejoinder must have gotten you many punches in the face.

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Matt: FX, without question.

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Matt: I love I LOVE LUCY, but the sexism of the way Lucy's character is conceived, and the rather hidebound portrait of men and women generally, makes it a tough sit.

But then, that's true of almost anything once enough time has passed. I am a big believer that you have to try to put things in context and think more about why the are interesting and important and not so much about whether you approve of them politically. This has been a generator of some controversy in my writing about TV and film. I often come back to the same analogy: if it is possible to go to an art museum and look at art from other eras that is in some way offensive to modern, secular or liberal sensibilities, and not become paralyzed by anger and disapproval, why can't we extend film and TV the same courtesy? Detach a bit.