Although the show gradually grows more subtle, much of the early writing that establishes the characters is so on the nose it hurts. Any time we see Walt in class, it’s certain that what he writes on the chalkboard will echo events in his secret life.

The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.

The mapou belongs to Legba, the master of the crossroads, one of the most important gods in the pantheon, Apollo to Ogoun's Ares.

A big problem, as people always say at meetings of Jewish organizations, is that the young people are falling away from Judaism, and I would add that it is doubtful that they'll come back on a program of anti-anti-Semitism.