Meanwhile, on another plane entirely, “Another Period” (Comedy Central, recently renewed for Season 2) is a send-up of crunchy-gravel dramas, set in tony Rhode Island in 1902.

Eating with the kind of bingeful disregard that regains every pound you ever lost, […]

The “wriggling and wraggling” of the fish in their mother's guts evokes the seething waters that expelled Pilate's body.

But before Three and Four [Generating plants from Montana Power that use coal from Colestrip to generate power] was built, everything that was hauled in [to the mine] was on a belly dumper.