And people have the right to complain about it or not to watch it. Criticism isn't censorship.

Except gender roles and rape in the "middle ages" (a huge span of time covering a huge region) is way more nuanced that GRRM and other people making this argument know and/or acknowledge. Also, the idea that using rape as a plot device/characterization short hand to show how Terrible Bad things are is particularly…

Matilda?

It certainly makes it harder to sympathize with her mother.

I'm pretty sure Shafe described them as Nation of Islam to Hodiak at one point, fwiw.

I grew up there, and it figured into a couple of high school (sub)urban legends.

Well, they were probably beaten for not smiling enough as toddlers. . .
No, seriously, that's a Quiverfull/Train Up a Child thing.

Definitely not troubled at all. Occasionally inconvenienced.

I found Malkovich almost too on key. . .like he already brings this weird and unsettling affect to the part before you even get to the specifically weird and unsettling Ripley stuff. Maybe the kind of performance that if I had no idea who Malkovich was before seeing the movie would have made a difference.

Not particularly? The Minghella movie is quite beautiful on its own, but I don't think it gets near the spirit of the book. It's much more interested in morality/immorality than amorality, and pivots the story much more around a straightforward repressed sexuality narrative instead of the ambiguous homoeroticism so…

Oh, PLEASE don't be the twitchy sad Matt Damon Ripley. That one is no fun. Please let it be the Ripley who has a rainbow-variety of silk pajamas and ends up taking harpsichord lessons in his rich-as-hell wife's French mansion.

I watched Bride Wars on a transatlantic flight—even intergalactic tax debates could only have improved it.

Gross. I guess they couldn't legally figure out a way to do The Box. . .yet.

A few years after I watched this, when I got old enough to watch Law and Order, I always kind of fanwanked a backstory when Lynne Thigpen was playing a judge, like Patty Larceny would be next on the docket, or that even though she was officially a judge now, tracking down landmark thieves with the help of…

I think this about a lot of people, tbh. So often when they explain something I end up finding it a lot less interesting or complex and it just feels very flat. (But I'm generally speaking a Death of the Author kind of girl, because I've read/seen enough things where the creator can tell me Character A is supposed…

I loved how Zoey looked in her whole 20s ensemble. She was rocking it.

There are so many weird things about Waldorf schools that I was kind of surprised they went there, as it seemed like there were a lot of jokes you could pull, but that would only really click with a pretty tiny crowd. Of course, then it had nothing much to do with anything.

I don't think it was a "fist bump" moment, but I don't think it was ominous—it made me feel like Sally found in herself some more compassion and self-direction than either of her parents have had, and that she's having a chance to connect with Betty before she dies (which, considering the amount of unresolved parental…

I think the real question is were you drinking by 11:00 am.

I almost choked up a little bit that the one guy sat on the bed next to him and the other guy packed up his things. It just kind of stood out as an uncomplicated gesture of kindness.