I haven't wanted to bring Zack's Westworld reviews into it either, but I noticed that same pattern. It seems like maybe slow-burn shows aren't his cup of tea, and while he's trying to see what other people like in them, his personal preferences get in the way. What look like bugs to him are features to us. I feel like…

The reason it looks unnatural for Violet to tie up her hair like that is because in real life, you need more than just a non-elastic ribbon in a single knot to make hair stay in a ponytail. It may be a petty complaint, but it's one I always had too when I was reading the books as a very thick-haired child. "What do…

My introduction to the AV Club was a lovingly-detailed thread speculating on what kind of poops the female cast of Parks and Recreation would leave in the on-set toilets.

…The Aristocrats!

I need this.

I only remember him as the cop who briefly dated Phoebe on Friends, until he shot a bird for making too much noise and she dumped him on the spot. Since then, I've always kind of imagined him as exactly the sort of person who would do that.

I have not read All The Wrong Questions, but the very idea of the Bombinating Beast is just a disappointment. I liked the Great Unknown when it was unknown. And I wanted it to be some kind of massive evil aquatic research vessel.

Kristen Stewart is in right now, so she would be a terrible choice of which Esme would wholeheartedly approve.

I kind of want to say Elizabeth Banks, but that's probably only occurring to me because Esme is like an evil Effie Trinket from a different kind of dystopia.

Oh my god, she'd be a hilarious Esme. I always pictured Parker Posey when I read the books, but Aisha Tyler would be fabulous.

Not in that book, anyway. It was more heavily implied in a later one when they were sharing a bed in a hotel room and holding hands while running away from stuff, though still not stated explicitly.

They're reportedly already working on it, but take that with a mine of salt. It's been four days and they're already getting to fuck things up beyond their wildest dreams because Twitler is merrily signing every monstrous thing they put in front of him—why would they really want him gone?

I sort of put everything Sunny does in a category of its own. Her vigorously-functioning dentition was never anything but absurd in the books, and I don't usually have an issue with the show's super-fake CGI, because…really, how else could they do it? But yeah, if I'm okay with it for Sunny, I shouldn't mind it being…

I was hoping Lin-Manuel Miranda would EGOT this year, but as Oscar-baity as Disney songs always are, and as much as I liked that one, it looks like there are other entries in that category that the Academy is likelier to slobber over. I didn't factor in La La Land.

Would that it 'twere so simple.

I crack up every time he hisses at her, even when I know it's coming.

I think they already kind of went there in episode two, with Violet's automatic pasta-maker grappling hook (whereas in the book, IIRC, it was just an ordinary grappling hook, but I could be wrong.)

I'd take it further and say that mocking Ivanka specifically for being the target of her dad's skin-crawlingly creepy fixation is shitty, too. She's done more than enough of her own accord to show us that she's no better than the rest of the Nazi-loving fucks in her family, but it doesn't help other victims of incest…

I'm partile to Hostile Hospital just because creepy evil hospitals are a favorite horror setting of mine. It's the only book after Ersatz Elevator that I remember much about.

I was rereading The Vile Village last night, and that one tiny bit where Klaus yells at Violet because her "silly hair ribbons" got them arrested and Violet yells something back about his "ridiculous glasses" before Sunny begs them to stop fighting was one of my favorite scenes just for the realism of the reaction,…