First episode that was visually interesting, as opposed to a series of shallow 'mysteries'.

Those are funny complaints coming from someone with a My Little Pony avatar.

The Harry Potter craze wasn't quite that huge in Germany (although everybody my age has read all of it), so I think I started reading them sometime around 2001 at 9 years of age. I was finished with the first four novels when Order of the Phoenix came out, so it played nicely into my learning the English, because you…

You might enjoy Arrested Development building an entire character arc out of that setup.

It was gong to be Call Me Maybe, but then I was totally vindicated by the 2015 album.

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Jury trials confuse me so much. As a European, I have no idea how Americans can be anything but terrified of the justice system.

I finally got down to rewatch both parts consecutively because of this article, and I have to say I'm surprised how much emotion there is in the movies. The first one in particular felt like it was mostly about the choreography back when I first saw it, and I think I didn't get devices like Hanzo Hattori unretiring to…

That's definitely possible, but I'd argue that since PK is literally a novel about boredom, the footnotes with all their 'unnecessary' detail were a much more integral part of the book than they were in IJ (not that those didn't contain useful information). Maybe it would've become bothersome to include them beneath…

Start off with his nonfiction essays to see whether you like his style. If you do, you'll probably look forward to spending this many pages with him.

I love Infinite Jest and all, but I wish Wallace didn't end up being largely defined by this one novel (and his suicide, I guess? That's what most people seem to know about him). His essay collections and The Pale King are some of the best writing I've ever read, and don't require sitting down for 1000 pages of going…

I'm embarrassed to admit that I had to look up whether Lorna's pregnancy test had, in fact, come out positive. Still, it's nice that they didn't bash us over the head with one of those digital thingies that just display the result in words.

"Schlong" is objectively the optimal term for every situation.

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I read W.D. or W.P on Piscatella's wrist, but if anybody could clear that up (without having watched ahead), that'd be nice.

I kept waiting for the author to explain what exactly this 'clutter' consists of, and they end up with 'there's too much comedy and I don't like Piper'. Sorry, but that's one of the weaker takes I've seen about the new season, and comes off like a pet issue more than anything else. The whole point of the lighter…

I don't want to prescribe my idea of Twin Peaks onto anybody else, but I was always more interested in it's treatment of small-town America and how the evil that lurks beneath its surface affects its people, of which the mythological elements were only an extension. As such, most of the more surreal parts of the first…

All this did was make me feel nostalgic for the unbelievable Lemon Party joke in 30 Rock. As far as references to shock websites go, I don't think that'll ever be topped.

I read that same point about the Republican coalition being closer-knit in Krugman's NYT column a couple days back, and I didn't understand it then either. Doesn't the AHCA debacle, where they had to turn the bill into Frankenstein's monster just to get it through the house, completely contradict that view?

I don't know, whenever I get a Tropical Sunreich, it always tastes like they let it sit for at least a millennium.