"I am still a little weirded out by the atheist-to-Christian conversion at the end of the novel"

I graduated college in May and finally read Fathers and Sons and The Picture of Dorian Gray for the first time this summer, and man…I know that they're required reading for a lot of high school lit classes, but I think this sort of immediate post-college angst was the perfect condition in which to fully appreciate…

So sad that we got the prospect of John Cho singing "Hollaback Girl" and no follow-through. John Cho's drunk karaoke in Flashforward was probably the best part of Flashforward, because…that show.

Yeah, I remember being really excited about it and telling people to watch it and then…disappointment. It did lead to the most confusing email I've ever received from my dad, though; subject line: "HI 50," content: "GP is aging well," no other context given.

And Hawaii Five-0 is still on, apparently? (My parents love it. I love Grace Park, but…nope.)

If I really have magic foisiting powers, I would make people listen to Phish's Fuego, because while it's not my favorite pop culture item of 2014, I can probably talk people into checking out Review/Broad City/Penny Dreadful/Outlander/etc. without these hypothetical powers. But Phish is a harder sell, even though Fuego…

Yeah, for a show with a female and (according to Wikipedia, at least) feminist showrunner, New Girl's gender dynamics tend to be weirdly regressive. Like certainly not as bad as How I Met Your Mother, but there are still a surprising number of "men do things like this, women do things like this" jokes and plots in New…

And I mean, there's also the whole question: if you're setting out to adapt a property with some since widely-acknowledged flaws, is it really your responsibility to include those flaws for the sake of faithfulness? (Also relevant to the Outlander TV show, because man, some problematic shit happens in the second half…

Yeah, I get what you mean. Like if they made an adaptation of Crime and Punishment that ignored the epilogue or ended with Raskolnikov getting away with everything, it would feel super disrespectful because it would be willfully missing the point of the book, even though I actually disagree with all of Dostoevsky's…

I don't think it was too bad? Probably about the same level of horror as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with maybe a little bit more blood.

Ughhh Logan. Matt Czuchry has almost completely redeemed himself on The Good Wife, but a small part of me still thinks that his character's current awful situation on the show is well-deserved punishment for causing Rory to steal a yacht and drop out of Yale.

The prequels are tolerable and (dare I say?) even sort of good if you watch them all before hitting middle school and never revisit them. Unfortunately, Revenge of the Sith came out when I was in 8th grade and my 13-year-old self may have cried out of disappointment. The costumes and soundtrack were still on point,…

Also, Elementary has Natalie Dormer for a few episodes, so there's definitely that.

They're both fun shows, but I personally prefer Elementary. Sherlock is probably slicker and definitely does more cool things stylistically, but I find myself more invested in the characters' relationship on Elementary. It seems like Sherlock hits the reset button on John and Sherlock's relationship whenever it's…

Fright Night (2011) was fun! Great casting (especially David Tennant!), which is not super surprising when Allison Jones is your casting director, but still ought to be mentioned. And the characters' choices w.r.t. the whole vampire situation felt pretty realistic? I don't think there were any moments of people being…

I'm assuming by strong female characters you mean well-written female characters and not just badasses? In which case:

Yeah, I can see the appeal, but it was just…not quite for me. Probably because I am one of those horrible millennial irony-bots that are ruining modern culture or something.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night: I really wanted to like this because the director seems cool (at least based on this: http://gawker.com/the-irani… ) and the image of a female vampire riding a skateboard and wearing a chador and skinny jeans is pretty fucking awesome. There were a few cute/cool/funny moments and the…

Now that I've graduated, yes. But my junior year college dorm room was right above the courtyard where the a capella groups would perform at 11 pm on week nights and I was always tempted to heckle them. Like just lean out the window and yell, "Learn to play real instruments, assholes!"

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