This show was so frustrating. It felt overstuffed, because each episode covered so much ground (multiple plotlines in reality and multiple flashbacks to Prairie's story), but it felt too slow, because the scenes never built on each other to create momentum.

The book "Automated Alice" is a great modern-day update of Alice in Wonderland. It tells a new story about Alice in Wonderland which has the same weird, witty feel of the old stories, but it has the atmosphere of a noire detective novel (think Alice in Wonderland mixed with The Big Sleep).

Haha, glad he's fine now. That book should maybe only be shoved into your face if you're a 15 year old with cancer and an incredibly handsome boyfriend.

John Green's Paper Towns (which came out when I was about 16) lead me to discover The Mountain Goats. I was at the library a few weeks after reading the book and spotted "The Sunset Tree." I thought, "Hey, that band was mentioned in Paper Towns," and decided on a whim to check it out from the library and download its…

(In this case, a T-rex)

No, he's an ignorsaurus (Noun: an ignorant dinosaur)

Picturing them being shot out of a cannon at me is pure nightmare fuel

God, this animation looks scary. All the birds look like they were made out of colored feathers and googley eyes by preschooler mad scientists.

Liked this episode OK, but Tina's behavior felt a little immature. We've seen her meet setbacks with a positive attitude in the past, and falling on the floor when she doesn't get to go to horse camp seemed unusually negative/whiny. No doubt Tina would be disappointed, but she seems more like a person who would try to…

In a messed up way, I emphasized with Selina in that moment. While it was terrible to tell Kathryn about Nevada, it did not seem calculatedly cruel. Instead, it seems like Selina can't help talking about Nevada, and everything else – she's completely overwhelmed by everything that's happened and all those emotions…

Sure thing, War and Peace is a page turner! (And, it has a satisfying ending!)

F*** IS THAT, A HAIRSTYLE?

Yeah, agreed that Lovecraft is much more openly prejudice. I remember the racial connotations in Tolkien being in-world (whereas Lovecraft's books have racist comments about real groups). Also, Tolkien just kind of takes for granted that races/species have different abilities and some are superior to others, while…

I did think the ending was a good twist. It's also one of the first times Bob has gotten acknowledgement from outside of his family that Jimmy is a jerk (the historian insulted Jimmy, and the crowd surrounding the restaurant seemed more curious about/amused by Jimmy's antics than actually taken in). I wonder how…

"It was those movies that made me first want to be Italian"

On one hand, I don't want Jimmy to win; on the other, Bob has come off pretty pathetic/pitiable when he's tried to fight back. His fistfight with Warren last episode was pretty cringe worthy.

Tina - Goes to college, works hard, gets powerful job as an animal rights lawyer, marries cute client who lives on horse farm (after saving farm from evil pet food company that wants to use horses as dog meat)
Gene - goes to college to become a reality TV chef, becomes next Julia Child
Louise - Whereabouts unknown

Hmm, that makes sense – I was thinking more about the show itself, but the context is obviously a big factor. Adding onto your observation, I remember there being a lot of pushback from white, middle/upper class people in my age group (millennials) in response to publications declaring Girls "the voice of our…

Yes, exactly – see: Bojack Horseman, that dude from Californication, Don Draper from Mad Men, etc etc. Some of it definitely has to do with Hannah being a woman, but I think there's also a low-stakes nature to Hannah's awfulness that makes it less engaging and more annoying. Hannah is privileged, has friends, and has…

I also appreciate the brightness of Ascension Day and the undeniable cuteness of the lake scene. I'm glad the show laid off a little on the horror movie music and lighting – the less dark atmosphere makes the tensions between the characters and the fanatical aspects of the movement stand out as genuinely disturbing,…