This episode stands to turn viewers away? The institution of slavery represents countless human tragedies, and for me this is the whole point of ever addressing this shameful part of American history. I care far less about the action sequences than I do about witnessing the resilience of the people who survived…

It's a pastiche. In my graduate writing program, we were assigned to write pastiches—direct copies/imitations—of various masters' works. Arts programs use pastiches as exercises to expand range, but always emphasizes that they're just for stretching, and never actual, you know, valuable work. Fox clearly disagrees.…

This review is far longer than the show merits (and the review is mostly about another show that I never even knew existed). Maybe the show will be a phenom with young people, but it was completely boring to me—it's not funny or scary, and it kind of makes me sad that it classifies itself as a comedy. If there were…

Funny. I'm one of those obsessive Tori fans—she is my favorite artist of any medium—but she actually almost lost me with that album. It was just too conceptual for me, and I think I don't like it mainly because the lyrics don't carry her sensibility—although her (non-SLG) covers of "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "A Case…

Night of Hunters, if you really listen to it a few times straight through, is absolutely a work of genius. It only got attention for being a classical-genre experiment, but it's transfixing and transformative. Scarlet's Walk is extraordinary.