I don't tend to agree with any sentiment that rests on the author's differentiating himself from "unsophisticated viewers", as I find that kind of rhetoric gross and immature. And I don't think that Handlen is holding this show to a different standard from a "regular" drama just because it's genre. The show itself has…

Can't believe the day has come that I'm defending Zack Handlen, but this is some of the most self-congratulatory, pretentious tripe I've ever read in these comments, and that's saying something.

This makes sense to me. It's like TWD's version of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd or Murder on the Orient Express, except with higher emotional stakes from the audience.

"the reviewer and many of the commenters' complaint that the show somehow 'needed' to be "making a point" — a single, unambiguous, didactic 'point' "

No, lack of coherence, or at least specificity, is what makes mediocrity. It's absurd to make a blanket statement that art isn't about philosophical statements, and frankly ironic to make it in reference to a show that dialogues philosophy to death (literally: see Dale, Shane, Hershel, etc.).

Thank you for your graciousness.

I deleted my original post because it was very rude. I had hoped that you wouldn't see it, and I sincerely apologize for having subjected you to it.

"they all neglected him and his deepest wound over Cookie's imprisonment
was buried so deep that it is coming out now in this way, bipolar
condition"

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Reavers, I thought.

Kind of a bummer that only about a quarter of these are ladies, y'all. Aside from Margo Martindale, you've got pretty much the entire cast of Orange Is the New Black to pull from, and that's only if you want to be lazy.

Julius Caesar named Augustus as his heir (as opposed to Augustus succeeding Caesar via direct bloodline), so the latter's legitimacy as ruler relied pretty heavily on the former's reputation being revered. Augustus did a shit-tonne of propaganda lionizing Julius, his (posthumous) adoptive father-God.

That was my reading as well, but on second thought I think too much time has gone by for that to be true.

I haaaated Wuthering Heights when I read in in 8th grade, and totally loved it on reread a couple of years ago. Summer reading I loved immediately included Jane Eyre, Crime and Punishment, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, but I was in the minority for most of those. I wish we'd been assigned Catch-22; comedy & satire…

I thought Miss Maudie said that?

In S1 when he smashed Alana's head into the wall — that was the first time we ever got a sense of how dangerous he was physically, yes? I remember him moving so quickly and resolutely in that scene; it was pretty shocking.

I do not believe this story.

Pretty sure it was David Carradine awesome-ing up the place, and I remember loving that remake. Of course, I was about 8 years old myself when it aired, and I have never seen the original, so my opinion should be taken with several grains of salt.

I can't tell if you're trolling or if your social skills are just underdeveloped. Assuming the latter, and that you're responding in good faith:

That implies that they normally bother with scripts.