Except that they are Discworld books.

I notice you don't mention any of the Tiffany Aching books, which have been consistently extremely strong. All of those are after Night Watch; the last one came out 2010. I think they're some of the best he's ever written. Certainly up there with the Guards books.

There was an organized cult, but most of the members were dead or scattered by the time Rust and Marty finally got Errol Childress. If Rust had twigged to Errol in 1995, it would've been a different matter.

If the dead clone turns out to be Cosima, I will be very, very angry.

Ditto. I'd love that sort of thing for each category: have a movie star who can at least fake enthusiasm talk about each one. I'm a movie buff, so I'm biased, but for me the biggest problem with the Oscars is too much variety show and not enough about the actual movies. I.e. the opposite of what TV critics like…

Huh. I've not seen it since it came out, but I remember reading the denouement very differently. I thought the movie worked precisely because it took you on this ridiculously selfish journey with the protagonist, who then understood right at the end that he had been wrong all along. Both the adult parents are made to…

I made the mistake of getting my family to watch the pilot of this. The eye rolling could have powered a small town, especially when she realizes she loves him when he gets violent with her rapist. This show got so much better after that, but in retrospect the pilot is really clumsy.

I disagree about the genericness of the twist at the end: I thought her suicide note was a pretty great examination of how depression makes someone see others' love for them as just more evidence that they're not worth it. Getting to that via a technological conceit is what good sci fi is about, IMO.

That exchange made him sound like Perd Hapley's sadistic older brother.

Yeah. And I like the way they flagged her angst by having her be completely oblivious to Oliver's shirtlessness in the sledgehammer workout. Happy Felicity would not have missed that!

Human Target had fantastic action sequences. They should hire whoever did them.

Cool! I thought it was and checked IMDb but at the time it was listed as an actress called Kristal Renwick, who looks similar. Good to hear my eyes weren't deceiving me and she's getting work.

I liked how the second season (spoilers!)…

I like both series, but this review is spot-on about how embarrassed the US one seemed to be about being a thriller. It seemed to have ambitions about being The Wire, and turned itself into that eventually, but the original stays by the tone established by the baroque premise of the first case. It's also a lot funnier…

I thought that too, but I checked and it wasn't her. :( I thought Laura Spencer did a fantastic job with Jane, though. The character's a tough one, because she tends to pale next to Lizzie, but Spencer really sold the sweetness and was also able to bring the steel towards the end.

Thanks! That's precisely the kind of thing that's useful.

So is this article a sign that the TV Club's coverage of the show will finally be completed soon? It's only been five years!

I'd love a Gateway to Geekery-style intro to the Eighth Doctor Big Finish audios. Most of the 'Best of' recommendations I've found online don't necessarily take account of newbies.

Exactly. District 9 hit a similar problem, with critics assuming it was about apartheid, when it was about refugees (e.g. from Zimbabwe into SA) and massive income disparity in general. I could barely believe my eyes when American critics related Elysium to their healthcare debate. It just struck me as so obviously…

I've also heard that the first half of Nymphomaniac is surprisingly funny. The second half is (spoilers) much more the usual Trier miserabilism, apparently.