Miguel was the face they used to get us to feel betrayed by the blackmailers. From a writing standpoint, the group of men may as well have been walking bags of flour. The show used Miguel to elicit an emotional response, and then killed him off for the same readon. The straight men were there for Paul to shoot and…

I'm just not a fan of pretending like something is wholly great for the sake of furthering a separate agenda. I may love that Sense8 has prominent gay and trans characters, but I'm not going to lie and say it's flawless, because that's not how criticism should work.

Guess we'll have to agree to disagree. At least for me, Fargo was leaps and bounds more engaging and thrilling than even True Detective's beloved first season.

I just plowed through Jane the Virgin (phrasing!) and the 22-episode season was certainly daunting, but I will agree that a greater amount of time spent with the characters tends to foster a sense that the audience has been through a long, gratifying journey with the characters.

I think praising shows that have a distinct point of view in addition to a fully stocked writers' room is where our energies should be directed, honestly. Rebecca Sugar, Alex Hirsch, and Harmon and Roiland are great artists in their own right, but the presence of editors and other voices only make for a better…

Your icon also reminded me of all the animated series that succeed with the help of a strong voice at the helm: Over the Garden Wall, Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Rick & Morty, and the late, great China, IL to name a few. And I would definitely come up short if I even attempted to list all of the beloved auters in…

Funnily enough, McAdams' casting was what finally got me to watch the first season. I can only assume that I wasn't the only gay man to be drawn into the franchise (for better or worse) by her presence.

Why praise an inferior product when better examples exist? There are plenty of shows that make a case for a strong authorial voice. Fuller's Hannibal and Hawley's Fargo being some contemporary examples, and I can only hope that Raimi's Ash vs. The Evil Dead and Lynch's new season of Twin Peaks will continue that…

I think the forums you're looking for are Reddit and Tumblr, respectively.

Don't most people attribute Asylum's goodness to Tim Minear? Speaking as someone who stopped watching about three episodes into the first season.

There is a large cast of straight characters with vastly different stories spread across the two seasons. There has been one gay character in the main cast of the series in the two years it's been on the air, and he suffered because he wouldn't accept his own sexuality, he died because he wouldn't accept his own…

Well when they are literally the only two prominent gay characters on this show (you're right, I'm not counting the young man whose sole purpose was to imply that bisexuality is just something that gay people do for enough money and drugs. progressive!), it's hard not to get a little miffed when they get treated so…

Blackmail is like gay man Gatorade. It replinishes their electrolytes.

And Miguel ended up just as dead as Paul. In the world of True Detective, gay men can either be closeted or they can be duplicitous. Both options end in death.

Yes, I caught all that. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's frustrating that the ultimate takeaway from his story is "Gay people shouldn't buy into society's homophobia, or else they'll be betrayed by another gay person. Both the betrayed and the betrayer will end up dead either way."

So, are we still supposed to believe that Paul's fatal flaw was his closeted status? From where I'm standing, he was punished for having gay sex (and ultimately betrayed by the devious man who lured him back into that nasty old habit, no less). And based on Burris' comment, clearly Paul was justified in his fear of…

Gay people aren't even allowed to make it out of sewers alive on this show, what makes you think they'd let him enjoy some nice forest imagery before his demise?

I've seen just as much of a dismissive attitude from this season's proponents. In last week's comments section, someone pointed out the very real and very gross history of Burying Your Gays on television in general and on True Detective in particular, and another commenter brushed it off as something that the first…

Why are so many people immediately going to "Oh, clearly the reviewers have something against Pizzolatto" as an excuse for the criticism this season has been getting? My only problem with the guy personally is that he clearly has no interest in writing characters who aren't straight white guys.

The turnaround makes no sense to me, honestly. This season has been consistently infuriating for all the reasons that have been brought up over and over again (the bad dialogue, Vaughn's underwhelming performance, the overstuffed plot, the over reliance on cliches), as well as reasons that I feel haven't been properly…