I agree with everything there. I could have happily forgotten I had ever seen it if it hadn't ended with Osment's character being murdered. That took it from a forgettable waste of time to a personal offense. Instead of forgetting about it, I hate this fucking movie with an intensity it doesn't deserve. It shares a…

Since it was mentioned in passing, is this an acceptable place to comment on what a pile of shit Pay It Forward is? I don't recall hating an ending to a movie that much ever before or ever since. It was one of those rare experiences where I felt like the creators showed real contempt for the audience.

As long as "La La Land" keeps holding its polished mirror up to Hollywood's asshole, it's going to be hard for it to look away.

1992. But I read it for the first time last year and loved it. I should note I don't normally read sci-fi.

Ah, that's good to hear. What I'm hoping for.

I'm about to finish To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris. It's been entertaining, with flashes of the kind of writing that made Then We Came to the End so good. I just wonder (even with 30 pages left) if Ferris knows what he's trying to say. After that, I'm going to try Dark Matter out of an interest in…

The idea of Dorne is much more interesting than its execution. I think it suffered mostly from being a part of the most blah book of the series.

I finally started reading Pynchon last year after a few false starts in previous years. So far I've read, in the following order, Inherent Vice, V., Bleeding Edge, and The Crying of Lot 49. I'm about 50 pages into Gravity's Rainbow, but have temporarily put it on pause. Once I locked into the rhythm of his prose, I…

Every time I see Dazed and Confused I'm more impressed with how they got every damn thing right without either going over the top or leaning into cliche.

So I'm a day late, and one of hundreds, but here goes. Of all the robots currently wreaking havoc, Maeve is the only truly enlightened one. Arnold settled on the idea that pain is what makes us human. Maeve stepping off the train to find her lost daughter is a truly autonomous act motivated by her pain and her memory.…

That's fair. I just see William's reaction(s) to the park as exactly what you feel is missing. He has been in awe of it since he first set foot off the train. He had no way to process how real it felt, and as a result he got emotionally invested in a robot.

This helps.

If Williams ends up being the Man in Black, it very much is important business to the narrative.

I haven't seen a problem with William's infatuation with Dolores. We have that blessed third party perspective with respect to William, just like we did with Felix and Sylvester. I've seen more than a few real-life friends and family get themselves into strange/dangerous situations by following bad logic or irrational…

"Jimmy Fallon is positively giddy about Gilmore Girls."

They live in a world with no disease, and top-notch AI. I would assume this means they can also trap ghosts. My working theory is that the wife we saw onscreen is the ghost of the wife who was married to Bernard's real-life counterpart (the human his design is based on). Ghosts, much like robots, live in loops, so she…

I think William is the Man in Black, and Logan isn't going to be anybody after episode 10.

The world outside Westworld doesn't look like anything to me.

Re: True Detective, I'm awaiting a final showdown in the maze, a la "Carcosa."

I don't see F Is For Family, Season 2 on this list. I want to see it on this list.