@Archdukechocula:disqus is right.  Those are the friends you make fast and lose just as quickly.

It was great becuz we actually got to see some emotional range as opposed to S4's version of Betty which was stuck on shrill/bitter.  I'm no fan of the character myself but this episode did make me feel sad for her.  I wonder if her self-reckoning, most evident during the tea leaves scene, is going to make her a…

that scene where she steps out of the bathtub really disturbed me.  probably more than anything else i've seen in the show's run to date.

Hadn't thought of that either but you might be right.  If the conversation was, you have a malignant tumor, don't you think it would have been a bit longer though?

I dig it.

You've tried superhard to hang out with a boss who didn't really want to?

Though I really enjoyed both adaptations, you make a really interesting point.  But I found the inclusion of the owl scene still added something to the film (e.g., giving you a first glimpse at how deranged/unsettled Jim's character had become that he'd do THAT in front of a classroom full of kids), particularly in…

@avclub-eee10e3b1f440f8e5dde6138c35e4a4b:disqus I'm with you in my love for the Prydain series.  It is incredible how touching some of the character moments are, despite the books themselves not being very long.  Should I ever father children, they would be amongst the first pieces of lit that I'd push on them maybe. …

I feel like David Benioff's City of Thieves practically begs for a film adaptation.

Barbara Bush or GTFO.

The legal/courtroom stuff here is really good.  See also To Kill A Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men.  Everything else can gtfo.

I recently picked up an old version of the Smiley v Karla omnibus that's available.  Reading Tinker Tailor was pretty enjoyable but I'm finding Honourable Schoolboy to be a bit of a slog at this point.  At this point, I probably need to put it down and pick it back up later.

Just one more thing: there's probably something here to be said for Tomas Alfredson's involvement.  In addition to TTSS, he did a really nice job with Let the Right One In, which is I think an improvement over the novel.  If I'm remembering this correctly, Tasha did a Book->Film entry on it.

Could not agree with you more!  It's a really great adaptation, I think.

Yeah, I did movie-first book-next and I was able to come to the movie on its own terms.  Then, reading the book, the text provided some elaborated detail … but really nothing that wasn't already suggested at in the movie if I recall.

I thought the recent Tinker Tailor movie was a great adaptation of the novel.  Sure, it did have that compressed feeling, it left out nothing that was material and it's density gave the movie experience that info-rich, barely-keeping-up-with-it effect that gives you that sense of being in the shoes of a Cold War spy…

Really baffled about Blake picking that raggae-ish song in the matchup between the, um, raggae singer and the kid who even Blake admits is straight country.  Why would you pick a song that is so smack dab in the middle of one competitor's comfort zone and so far removed from the others?  I get that you want to see if…

Who were the other two that you picked?

This is my first time watching the show and, as predicted, these battle rounds are not as interesting as the blind audition stage (w/ 1 or 2 exceptions).  Hopefully, the live performance stage is an improvement?

The Shins totally changed his life?