Thank you, Miss Ihnat.

Thanks! I'm Armenian-American.

Did they do that? I hope it was because the writers wanted to so they could tell their story. Are cable networks adopting the Netflix model? Not a good idea in my opinion.

Preacher's first season wasn't running on my cable company's OnDemand this week. I'd seen up to five episodes in the original run but fell behind. I think I read the first two graphic novels, and fell behind. Anyway, odd for AMC not to have done that.

I haven't seen it. Don't go to the movies as often as I used to. When I do, I don't go to a superhero movie first. I'm a bit tired of the genre, but I hear Wonder Woman rejuvenates it. So will watch it eventually.

Just wanted to provide an update to Snow Falling on Cedars, the David Guterson novel, I talked about with reservations in June's Wide Open Reading. Finished it and liked it. I think because I had just read George Saunder's Lincoln in the Bardo that anything after that was going to be a let down. All on me, not the…

There is something to be said for their formula, which is more entertaining than the director controls the film model of DC.

True, but it makes Marvel like a TV outfit, with a studio exec (showrunner) telling its directors what to do, when the auteur movie model has the creative vision retained by the director. Those two systems are incompatible, so why mix them up by hiring an auteur? Studios show know better, since there's a long history…

Good point.

I'm trying to make sense of the logic if it happened in any other field. "Sherlock Holmes, we want you for this case because you're the best and your methods get results." Much later, "Dammit, Holmes, what are you doing? We didn't hire you to investigate like you have been and always done, the very same methods we…

I'm wondering how an ending is bad if the author wrote it to be that way; not bad but however he choose to end it. The assumption is the author lost control of his material and didn't know how to end it, but where would the evidence be that that happened? It's more likely the ending fit into his larger purpose and we…

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Their marriage before the rape was portrayed as a good one, with both clearly loving each other. Plus raising a normal, beloved, well adjusted daughter supports this. And there's little evidence she is generally controlling. She works teaching sex ed to the town's children. She knows about horny teenage boys. She's a…

First episode, not enough time to flesh the characters out, or the writers choose not to and go with the tropes for now. A TV show if it chooses to, can be about flat characters, but logically they do have to be fleshed out, so I wouldn't worry. Actually, no, they don't have to be multifaceted if the writers don't…

So it appears—with the dramatic story, the characterizations, and the dialogue—the writers are concerned with empathy and and its flip side, narrow-mindedness. The eye in the title credits. Also the symbolism of the Mist, as it obscures people who are already not prone to understand each other. I think the show takes…

On top of which, Trump supporters can say this Hollywood liberal has treated women way worse, actually beating them up instead of locker room talk with the guys. You were out of your element, Johnny. Though I understand for an actor wanting to play to the crowd.

I love DeLillo, but that's an interesting critique I wouldn't have thought to make. It's been a while since reading him last, but I don't remember him doing that. In fact, some of his stuff is elliptical and opaque. And I've always believed that subtlety is overrated, because sometimes you do need to explain your…

Pfft, if poets don't use them in they're poetry, they're not a thing.

At the end of her intro where she's revealed her biases, she does say she does "take it as by now axiomatic that film criticism is "personal", never objective or unbiased, and biography can evaluate as well as report." Uh, yes, and no, if a bias is referring a type of film over another and finding fault with something…

I would say it's always interesting to read a critical biography. I haven't read that much of her book—just the intro and some of the chapters on the movies she naturally has a taste for. Those are the darker ones like Minority Report, AI, and she argues that Catch Me if You Can is more darkly rich than its reputation…