The issues of how or if to forgive cheating in a relationship are complicated and sensitive, and every relationship (and every person in a relationship) is unique. But my sense has always been that if the cheated-on partner decides to forgive and take back the cheater, it kind of has to be a total takeback.…

I just finished the book a day or two back. I remember reading the back of the book and thinking, “Well, surely this is more complicated than just a bunch of white people callously murdering rich Native Americans for their money. History is nuanced, people are rarely so purely monstrous. This story can’t be that…

I liked Game of Thrones, so I am happy about this.

“Samir” isn’t even difficult! 

“You’ve literally stabbed people in the back, like, 50 times.”

I was kind of surprised when Thor and Dr. Strange showed up toward the end, but you know, it actually worked really well. 

Of course the things in Batman stories don’t work in the real world — they’re not set the real world. Gotham will and ultimately always must be too crime-riddled for the police to handle, too corrupt for the system to work, too insane for the forces of rationality to handle. Solve those problems, there’s no need for…

When CSI was young I had a pretty big crush on Jorja Fox’s character. But my goodness, I was a junior in high school when that first season aired. That’s sort of mind-boggling, actually.

I like Nasim Pedrad, but everything about that show, at least as shown in the marketing for it, seems grating and unwatchable. Your protagonist can be unlikeable, but the character just seems so deluded and spoiled that I really can’t imagine spending an entire half hour watching a show with him at the center of it. 

Did anyone else think Maya looked really uncomfortable during the embraces in the Kamala Harris sketch? Like, I get they were supposed to be weird and awkward and cringey back hugs, but she seemed pretty creeped out by the way Short was hugging her. 

As a Boulder resident and Archer fan, please allow me to say: eat a dick, week.

This was one of the criticisms in the pre-air review on this site, and I pretty much agree with it. I’m OK with the comedic, wacky small town stuff, but when it starts getting serious, I check out. Am I watching this show about a genocidal alien living camouflaged on Earth because I care about Asta giving up her child…

I suppose this makes sense -- the entire appeal of Ellen’s shtick was conspicuous, performative niceness, and “This was a hellish work environment in which everyone was miserable” kind of contradicts the brand. 

I was really surprised that Roger Deakins agreed to be the cinematographer on this. 

This review made me remember that Zack Snyder was supposed to direct an adaptation of The Fountainhead, though apparently he recently said that was on the back burner. I was actually sort of looking forward to it -- a Zack Snyder version  of The Fountainhead would be rank nonsense, but I have no doubt it would be…

I imagine Flea Bottom would be kind of a gritty, ground-level look at the universe — the main characters are all commoners, and the big villains would be, like, small-scale organized crime figures and not evil royals or White Walkers.

Yeah, I love Carolyn, but a spinoff about her feels like a classic “why don’t they make the entire plane out the black box” TV exec idea. People love Carolyn because she injects a welcome jolt of bone dry don’t-give-a-fuck humor in every scene, but an entire show of that is kind of like making an entire meal out of…

Yeah, I was disappointed by the ending too. I thought the movie was going for this harsh, depressing but totally compelling ending where the protagonist is literally crushed by the weight of the patriarchy, and the bad guys get away with it, and the whole movie ends with this rapist and murderer joyfully celebrating…

I chuckled pretty hard at the exchange they’re showing a lot in the commercials:

Matt Zoller Seitz has a review over at rogerebert.com that’s actually kind of glowing: