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The video for "All About That Bass" is somehow worse than the actual song.

That too. It's not like you can raise great whites in captivity.

Yeah, the special effects actually look…worse? Too much goddamn CG. And the park itself looks like the Hunger Games city.

"You two are the most fucked-up people I've ever met in my life," damn near got a standing ovation in my theater.

The movie seemed to imply that there was a camera on every square inch of that property except the dining area and bedroom, I guess just to make a gruesome sexmurder frame-up easier on Pike's part. NPH was considerate to the very end.

She was certainly in control of the situation, but his behavior - showing her the security cameras and then remarking "I won't let you get away again," pushing her to dye her hair and lose weight - implies that he's at the very least controlling and insecure. Whether one or both of them is the way they are because of

I thought this was basically understood at this point? He's sort of like the male Betty White. A semi-constructed persona for hipsters who love the idea of a sassy old person.

While All You Need Is Kill is certainly a more memorable title, it's still fairly dumb (it comes from the "random English words sound cool" school of Japanese titling) and has the same problem of not actually describing anything about the movie.

Girl needs to get herself to a Sephora quick for a tutorial then, because that is NOT her tone.

YES YOU AND I HAVE THE SAME BRAIN. Girl's got a pretty serious case of dumbface. In fairness to the show, I do think the character is supposed to be a teenager (even though the actress looks to be mid-20s at least) and not a very sharp one at that.

I know this is not a new complaint, but I CANNOT get over how much nasty yellow foundation Stephen Moyers is wearing in that photo. It isn't even applied well, like the makeup artist half-heartedly sponged it on while browsing Grindr. I don't know why they insist on making the poor guy as unattractive as possible,

I like that Polly is portrayed as smarter and more worldly than Piper in their gal-pal flashbacks. She's a good measuring stick for how much Piper has changed.

You're missing my point. It's not that I don't "like" the characters, or that I'm denying that fucked up sexual dynamics exist between CO's and inmates. It's that these are two poorly written characters in a poorly executed storyline.

It makes sense, in context, for Daya. She's the product of an utterly fucked environment where dealing drugs or going to prison are the only real career options. She has no perspective on what a sex offender conviction means for a functional adult. On top of that, she's a teenager: Romantic, petulant, selfish, and

The Daya/Bennett storyline was this season's major weakness, for me. It goes nowhere, is boring, and both characters come off as morons. I figure it's there to give Bennett something to do since he's the show's male eye candy, but there's gotta be a better way to utilize the character.

It's pretty simple. Monica is the only woman on the show, is always perfect-looking despite everyone else being giant schlubby nerds, and her entire role consists of encouraging Richard. Of course they're going to end up together. Mike Judge can do a lot of things, but writing worthwhile female characters doesn't seem

I definitely remember (though I can't find the quote) GRRM mentioning that TWOW is gonna get into is what goes on in The Land of Always Winter, so the Fortress of Othertude didn't come as a huge shock to me.

Yeah, I know first seasons are all about finding a groove but the inconsistencies with Peter Gregory are weird, especially given how quickly the other characters have defined themselves (The One Girl notwithstanding). In the first episode he's a capable enough public speaker to present a TED talk and shoot down

I refuse to believe that there is a context in which the sentence "the ghosts were either real ghosts, or the smoke monster taking their form" is a perfectly reasonable explanation for anything..

Reminds me of the first season of The Americans when they killed the black guy, and then the other black guy.