I saw Decalogue first, then Three Colors. Probably prefer the latter, but that's mostly because it's much more fresh. It's been a while since I've seen The Decalogue, but it definitely knocked me out. It's difficult to articulate, but while I have other personal favorite filmmakers for shared sensibilities, it seems…

Eh, I feel like people give cinematography a low bar where they wouldn't any other element of film/tv. Like any moody, high contrast stuff is automatically given a pat on the back where it might be called out for being predictable, repetitive and heavy handed. I liked the cinematography in the pilot, by episode 4 it…

"Who'd have thought that out of all of them, Tony Hale would emerge as AD's strongest comedic player?"
The mere fact that you couldn't anticipate this tells me you're not ready for Arrested Development Season 4.

Two things about this, as funny as I think it'd be:
1. As much as Harmon likes taking a run at upper brass, I can't see him disrespecting other writers/show runners like that. And frankly it's just not his place to second guess the difficult spot they were put in.
2. I think he'd enjoy the challenge of building on canon…

It's been interesting watching the Season 3 appraisal gradually get overstated as some terrible foreboding on its Harmon-timeline future. It was very well-received at the time for anyone who can be bothered to remember, slightly less consistent than Season 2, and we've since gotten to the point where a lot of people…

No, that's simply not television network executive group think. They would never keep the show going sans attractive white male ostensible lead. Jeff was set up to graduate at the insistence of the season 3 writers staying aboard, who saw it as the one key to keeping the proper spirit and intention of the show going.

And also, we have to admit, kinda funny.

After tearing up, this was along the lines of my second thought.

@avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus Oh I think Seinfeld was on the contrary extremely ahead of its time in mocking homophobia and not homosexuals. You can look at the interviews of how they evolved the joke to "Not that there's anything wrong with that." It's the epitome of thoughtful comedy.

I love Arrested Development, but it is intensely transphobic at times. It's not rocket science, we don't need a glimpse into the future, they get a lot of laughs at the expense of people not fitting neatly in the gender binary.

Oh fuck yeah, let's Jurassic Park this sonovabitch.

Because they're competing against Hulu and Amazon (and I guess Yahoo now?) and they're all basically divvying up the same digital rights to stream movies and existing tv shows, so if you want to entice customers to choose you over another, get exclusive rights to new programming they can't see anywhere else. Most…

Yeah I find it somewhat shocking that anyone would still allow the pretense that she could ever be "a traiter to her Jewish people." That's a repellant and what I can only think deliberate misreading of her work.

Exactly. I was on board the whole time for Buster's increasingly unhinged murmuring. But you also have to get the point of her reaching for a second cigarette. That's the capper.

Wow, I was trying to connect the dots on that one (got the 2003 reference obviously). That's great.

I went back and forth on that, but I feel like it was ultimately just playing into the emotional arc of Lindsay always having one foot in pseudo activism and one in ruthless materialism and personal gain, ending with her fully embracing her "Bluthness."

I can't believe it took this long for someone to say it. Yes that reveal blew my fucking mind. I never had even the slightest inkling.

"That's my penis."
"You don't have to tell me!"

I think it's the greatest. At the time I remember being in awe of a show introducing itself with the main character (call it an ensemble all you want, Lindsay Weir is the center of that show) confronting mortality and the cold indifference of the universe, while still managing to find some personal meaning…in a high…

I think it's fine to feel that way. I obviously don't agree and that's dismissing any project ambitious beyond the known logistics, which means you're going to miss out on a lot of amazing art. You know how many great novels in history were unfinished? And how many television shows arc a season toward a cliffhanger…