Just read the comments. I mean, fuck people, I don't know how much more clear the writers can make it that Ian is bi-polar and in a manic episode. For fuck's sake.

I agree, though this article was specifically in reference to contemporary literary fiction (The Hobbit not being contemporary nor literary) and The Hunger Games and 50 shades certainly not being literary.

Don't be a pretentious douchebag. TV has grown tremendously in quality storytelling/writing that is thematically and intellectually challenging. The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, True Detective, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, etc., are basically novels in the TV medium.

1) The state of American Fiction is "bleak" because premium programming on cable TV/premium networks/Netflix has essentially replaced the literary novel. Prior to the last 20-30 years (especially the last 10), people simply didn't have as many options for entertainment. Now literary fiction is not read for…

Infinite Jest is fucking horrible.

Understood - but "real women" can also be attractive and might even be more attractive than your typical actresses.

What's a "real woman?" Someone who isn't very attractive.

"This is a show about character, theme, and perspective, first and foremost"

Please no

Between this and Banshee - seeing the actress who plays Beth's face is becoming the bell in the Pavlov's dogs experiment. Any time I see her in a future show or movie - my first impulse is going to be, there's about to be some serious fucking going on.

I've never seen a show where the creator was so concerned with criticism of the show. The entire season has been a fuck you to critics, rather than, you know, actually working on some of the flaws of the show.

I was mostly thinking in terms of plot - an investigation (granted the kid in TTS is not a detective) - around a missing young girl, which ends up being some kind of cult/sacrifice with a surf gang being involved as runners.

I think the show should focus more energy on becoming better rather than using every episode as a meta commentary on shit critics have said about the show. The fight sequence was really just a giant wink, wink about problems with the show: The characters don't like each other and don't really do anything; Hannah is a…

Not sure if anyone on here is into the surf-noir genre - but there are a lot of similarities between True Detective and Kem Nunn's "Tapping the Source." Substitute the underbelly of the South for the underbelly of Southern California surf culture and you get "Tapping the Source."

While this sounds like a good theory - pragmatically speaking, I don't think it would be an easy draw to get big name talent (Woody) to sign up a for a show where he ends up being a child rapist.

Of everything that has happened in this show that is infuriating (intentionally or not), Hannah's bitching about actually having a paid, full-time writing gig at age 24? is fucking obnoxious.

Yeah, quit being a whiny asshole and sack the fuck up. You want to write - fucking write. It isn't rocket science.

Chekhov's Cocaine…

Should have included advertising exec. 'What women want', whatever shitty movie with Keanu Reeves from the late 90s, how to lose a guy in ten days, many more..

I actually think Apatow's movies are not too lengthy (I know I hold the minority opinion). For a comedy to be a tight 90 minutes, you really have to stick to the rigid, script beats and you don't have time to develop characters.