To whatever extent I find an evil seductive witch hot (which I'm just going to, uh, keep to myself) it is certainly not lessened with the knowledge of her relatively wizened actual body; plus, I'm a consistent advocate for TV nudity of all kinds, so I'll say "hot."

I like the character from the books, and narratively, I don't necessarily love that he dies from a stab in the back, but I'm willing to believe that severing someone's spinal cord does for them pretty quick.

The Punisher is a Batman, yes, but Daredevil is actually a Spider-Man.

There's one in Corvallis.

My theory was that she's a clone of Yoda, actually.

What's interesting is that so many people watch movies or TV shows and don't pick up on this kind of thing at all. A significant segment of Mad Men fans I know started to lose interest in the series when Don's drinking and womanizing was portrayed as anything but awesome fun, like "the character" was "supposed" to…

When it gets really bad, I re-read Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, or sometimes the three beginning with Far Side of the World. There's something about O'Brian's writing that makes you feel like you're in good hands, and the series is escapist in the best way.

Everyone thinks a job they're ignorant of is easy or trivial, because it's "just a bunch of stuff."

It could have been much better, it was just done poorly: the sound effects are bad fake farts, and there are way too many of them, for starters.

I really liked Avatar, snarkers be damned. Then again, I liked Batman v. Superman pretty well, too. What if I just have bad taste?

Let's find out!

Not to mention the frequency with which religious parents can simply outsource vicious abuse by sending their non-conforming children to out-of-country religious "camps."

It is so good. It's really neat to set Mormonism between, say Scientology, as described in Going Clear, and the Christian Church, and look at how the sausage of a religion gets made. As it begins as a cult or scam, and ages through various levels of "legitimacy" and some of its sharp edges get rounded off, until it's…

You're right. It still feels that way, because you can see someone going down the more recent list and feeling spoiled for choice (even if he/she didn't make the same choices I would have) and going down an older list and just recognizing the Chaplin films.

This feels like a work by someone (and I mean no insult by this) who's mostly familiar with latter-day films, since this was pretty heavily loaded for the last few years. And they reached for "classic film" and kind of only knew Chaplin.

Tough, but the shot that was chosen is so f-ing amazing and I love it. "Now what." Just fantastic.

That's why it makes so much more sense to me to pay directly for HBO Now, and subscribe to Starz via Amazon Prime and Showtime via Hulu.

Sure, but this is about defending a fiefdom, which is why it also doesn't work on your regular Android devices and why there's Google Play on your Fire TV Stick.

Is that only on Amazon devices?

FWIW, in my subjective experience HBO Now has improved a lot in terms of stream quality and reliability.