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Gabriel Chase
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They made some pretty major changes to Dawn Treader, which was always my favorite of the books but really doesn't have much of a traditional plot. Eustace was pretty good, though.

Big fan of Melvin and Howard and Married to the Mob, two movies with big, goofy hearts.

His Norman has always been a great performance but it took off into a whole new level this season - darker, funnier, weirder, more tragic. I really hope somebody finds a perfect project for him and Vera Farmiga to be in together again.

I thought the basically blank headstone for Norman was sad and then thought about how your typical "beloved son" or "beloved brother" inscription might have led to an awkward laugh, all things considered. I mean, we know he was both of those things but it's probably not how the town is going to remember him.

The music cues on this show are pretty much always delightful but that was a great one both for the Hitchcock reference and for the dark humor of those lyrics in connection to Norman and his mother. You Belong to Me was also a great choice.

That was the perfect ending. Norman dies at the hands of someone he loves and who loves him and gets at least his image of a reunion with Norma. I cried pretty much from Dylan's phone conversation with Emma to the end. Highmore and Thieriot (who in a fairer world would get a Supporting Actor Emmy nomination for

I cried from Davis saluting Crawford at the Academy Awards through the final montage, which is not what I would have expected from the finale after the first episode's highly enjoyable but much campier tone.

Favorite Feud moments from the entire series? Good question. Before this episode I probably would have gone with Davis losing the Oscar or that scene between Crawford and Bancroft. But this episode really made me think about that scene between the two of them with the "what did it feel like to be the most

Yeah, if the rumors are true that Netflix is trying to slot the Gilmore Girls revival into the mini series categories to get more Emmy love they may have picked a bad year to do that.

Charles and Diana has me a little worried but there's all sorts of things to be said about it in terms of marriage, celebrity, and privilege. I do hope they mostly stay away from their sons, though, because I don't really want to watch a show about two children dealing with a nasty divorce, endless tabloid scandals,

From what I understood the idea seemed to be that any intrinsically magical creatures - unicorns, dragons, etc. - continue to exist after magic got shut off, which I guess applies to the fairies, too. Since humans aren't intrinsically magic but merely figured out how to manipulate it they can be cut off at the

Eliot acknowledging his own struggles with mental illness not just to drown them in alcohol but to develop a connection with another hurting human being - that is genuine, touching progress.

I'd say there was at least four major plotlines after the Beast got defeated - Reynard, Fillory, everything with Penny and the library, Quentin and Alice. The last two intersected with the first two part of the time and they all received at least some time in every episode. I do agree the show is an ensemble, which

That was an odd finale, less resolving the major plots and more sweeping everything off of the table so that next season can reset it. I actually don't know how to feel about that. It makes some of the major plot threads (especially Reynard) feel weirdly irrelevant. It had some nice moments - I'll never say no to

I had to catch up with the first several episodes online after it started getting such good reviews here. Surprisingly funny and unexpectedly genuinely sweet at moments. I like how East Peck went from seeming very generically wacky small town to very specifically odd. And it was nice to see Lithgow and Stewart

I'm glad Keaton is back to being in movies regularly and O'Brien is a decent actor but this whole premise is so tired and nothing in the trailer looks particularly interesting or original.

Space opera, previous generations in the hero's family, civilization you know is doomed . . . OK, best case scenario this turns into Caprica, which floundered around hard trying to find its own tone and plot before getting axed right when it became interesting.

This was insanely long, incredibly unfunny, and veered away from a critique of the song itself (which, I agree, is bad) to an outright personal attack on the singer. I've never liked this feature but this is definitely my last time reading it.

I used to teach it to students but it made them weirdly uncomfortable, since it refuses to explain anything about the main character's behavior and doesn't even try to make the basic situation anything less than unsettling.

A legitimately bizarre little Hawthorne story which he supposedly based on a real life anecdote. CENTURY OLD SPOILER ALERT: the guy eventually comes back and more or less resumes his life on the same whim that made him leave it in the first place and Hawthorne more or less shrugs it off as "hey, people are pretty