Used to love JEW, but their new stuff (which to me is post "Futures") just sounds so…blah. It's like they're trying to ape their own pop-rock sound without growing or developing any new wrinkles to it.

"Hannah Hunt" is sublime. It might be the first time Koenig has broken down his detached gaze and really gave a track emotional resonance.

My roommate pointed out to me that the show gives you a couple of clues at the end of Season 2 as to who is torturing Theon.

Oh, weird. Thanks!

Yeah, it was pretty jarring. They've explored the rape theme with women (before with the Dothraki and at the end of this episode with Brienne) but this is the first time I've seen threatened male-on-male sexual violence. I kind of wish Sims would have discussed Theon's storyline a little bit more, if only to touch on…

Can we talk for a second about Theon almost getting butt-raped?

This is a whole lot of Smog love in the past month. Okay, two articles but still more than I would ever expect (not that I'm complaining!).

*SPOILERS*

Watched this with my roommate senior year of college. We were only drinking a little, but somehow the experience of watching this movie made it feel like we were wasted off our asses.

"It's almost like he doesn't understand that they're acting and thinks that they're just behaving normally."

Yup. Agree completely. Charlie & Marnie's relationship was the most emotionally fatuous on the show, and while I get that was sort of the point, it's time to move on.

The music and the animation really draw you into the intimacy of each episode. You're basically watching an animated death sequence set to kickass strings and drums, so everything that comes after it seems to have pretty heavy import.

It's kind of like saying "I'm an expert on American literature" without having read Mark Twain or Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not a knock on you or anything, it's just that all three of those shows are essential examples of the best the medium of television has to offer (IMO, of course, but many others share the opinion).

I'd have to disagree that it was a flaw. The character development came in the form of characters trying to better themselves and failing because they ultimately couldn't escape both the world they were born into and their own base instincts. It was all the more powerful (and often painful) to see glimmers of hope…

I recently acquired access to an HBO Go account and have watched the shit out of Oz. Currently, I'm up to the beginning of Season 3. I watched it with my mom when I was a kid (yes, I've made the joke "That explains a lot about me!" multiple times), and though I've watched many other television shows over the years,…

@avclub-28b1819668d7c62501acb9852cad10a9:disqus , I think that the type of emotionally co-dependent relationship Hannah and Adam have is unhealthy because they're using each other to fill up the holes in themselves without facing their individual flaws. 
Adam needs to diminish his partners (the kinky, degrading sex;…

Honestly, I hate the word "realistic" went it comes to describing works of fiction, because what the hell does that mean? Everyone has different, shifting realities in their actual lives, and writers/creators of all things fiction add another layer as they create a world through their own subjective lenses. It can…

With everything we've been presented with about Charlie and Marnie, I don't think this should be construed as a "happily ever after" resolution. Marnie, like Hannah, manipulated her emotionally weak ex to care for her in a low period of each of their lives. This is in no small part due to Charlie's "lots and lots of…

I think it was so over-the-top because Hannah and Adam's relationship with each other has been predicated on these types of big, dramatic emotional moments, in both the peaks and the valleys. It speaks to the desperation and vulnerability of these characters that emotional connection has to present itself as amour fou…

I can understand that criticism to a certain degree. However, he has experimented with wide palette of different sounds over the years and while they all haven't necessarily worked, I wouldn't say that he's boring.