"Just take me with you.
I cant.
Please, Papa.
I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant."

I agree. This is my favourite book of 2015, too.

I don't know how much of this is just me being A Girl Growing Up In The World, but I was 17 when I saw the 2011 remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and the killer's speech at the end - "Why don't people trust their instincts? They sense something is wrong, feel someone walking too close behind them. You knew…

Damn, I don't even watch this show anymore. I tried! I tried! But, in my defence, the dialogue was sooooo wooden that 4 episodes looks like a generous allowance. They pushed me over the edge where the only other character who'd showed any promise at all (Riley) was killed off literally to save the horrendous…

Why do other people watch Let's Play, and why is there so much scorn heaped upon it? Is it an RPG thing like the bizarre and godless part of the Internet that apparently sexualises these furry monster robots?

So I was watching this is a kind of light semi hate watch, because I used to be obsessed when I was 13-14 and this sounded just like my "script" would have, The Killing gave me so much goodwill towards Bex Tyler-Klaus, and Audrey and Noah were so nearly genuinely good in a fun summer show way.

I'm kind of in the middle about the revelation that Tad is gay. It's one of those things that Dunham has plausible deniability on it being foreshadowed, like Marnie's offhand line about Hannah's masturbation habits supposedly leading the way for her OCD exposure. Many people with more experience with me on the topic…

I reserve 'things I can't watch again,' generally, under the bracket of things that were so emotionally taxing that it wouldn't be pleasant to watch again (glad to see Wilson's Heart get mentioned, I was in floods of tears), probably Will's death in The Good Wife and its fallout, or some episodes of a UK show called…

I think that's because P+R makes it clear in small but important ways that it's not set in a sitcom world. Many (most?) of the comedies you named are only really optimistic in the sense, to me, that they take place in a sugary sitcom world where everything naturally must turn out well or it'd be drama. P+R is great…

I loved Lana and Sarah Paulson's performance, but, for Murphy's best LGBT+ character (I'm not disagreeing) let's not forget that her girlfriend gets fridged in episode 2 (an extra crime for wasting the incredibly underrated and great Clea Duvall) and she spends most of the rest of the season being raped by a man and…

But isn't there a serious question about whether the horrible murder of a woman in real life, and her boyfriend's possible false imprisonment, is the stuff of a 'story'? I mean, you want to write a story, you write fiction. You're talking about fact, that's not a story. You're tainting public opinion of that story,…

Because it's Australian and 'American viewers' are too dense and narcissistic to even try and empathise with a place that's not Everytown, USA?*

I completely agree. The kid is a horrendous little sociopath I've seen the Australian version and read the book (the TV series, especially, is so much better than the premise might allow for and I really recommend checking it out). His mother is also terrible, so I think I'm going to stay clear of the Internet on…

So…am I the only one (yeah, I know, this is the Internet, I'm never the only one) who thinks the B- was generous? I don't know, guys, I'm being really burned on this season, which is really sad for me, because S4 was my favourite by a long chalk.

I know this is a stupid question, because it's so subjective, but what scared you so much in Heart-Shaped Box? I'm a total baby (I had nightmares about the Blair Witch Project for weeks and got halfway through the first story in 20th Century Ghosts before being like, fuck this, I want to sleep tonight), but the only…

A really general question: do you recommend Capturing The Friedmans? It sounds fascinating but also very uncomfortable.

I know Becca will probably never see this but, seriously, what's wrong with Alana Bloom? I love her - I think Fuller slightly mishandled her in the latter half of S2, robbing her of most of her agency in making it seem somewhat stupid that she would be fooled by Hannibal's manipulation, but I find Dhavernas to be a…

It also got some nice coverage as a result of having a strong Women of Colour lead. I'm supportive.

I'm going to give my perspective on the books even though I totally appreciate where you're coming from with the rape culture thing re: the scene in the books.

But, the thing is, what more does he have to do? Just because something is shocking doesn't make it good. They even added a gunshot to the 'previously' section! And Estefania 2.0….shudder.