What I admire about the Verbinski flicks: they suffered from having too much ideas as opposed to not enough, which does make them different than most blockbusters!

So, Roman and Finn are our main stars…

When this show was good, it was transcendent.

I loved it wholeheartedly, but then I am a kind of viewer who cares about atmosphere and aesthetcs much more than plot and ideas. For me, it felt nostalgic, but not for the specific era but rather the more general feelings of growing up. Add some spooky synthesizers (which are the only "80s" thing that improved my…

The rise of the Polish far right even coincides with the rise of Trump.

Grzegorz Braun.

It's Paul Schrader, do we even need to say it's messed up?

My limited experience with Korean films and TV is the following: when they go for the dramatic, bring out the fucking handkerchiefs. I've watched some of their historical TV dramas which actually were great, if rather melodramatic, TV, but even a dark and fucked-up movie like Peppermint Candy ultimately made me want…

It feels like Game of Thrones the Phenomenon (not Game of Thrones the TV show) is constantly yelling in my ear.

I remember when all the people in my university watched Breaking Bad. That was really fun, because sometimes when we hung out in bigger groups, it was obvious that there were no topics that everyone could talk about… Unless we started talking about TV shows. Those weren't some enlightening discussions, but pop culture…

I guess you could say that. In 2000s, a large part of the genre shows that had twenty-plus episodes per season were Buffy/X-Files riffs (Supernatural, Fringe, Grimm, a lot of other stuff I have forgotten about). Now the last remnants of that time seem to be Grimm and Sleepy Hollow and it's all about unrelenting…

What's more discomforting for the people who want to achieve a high level of skill in something is the thought that no matter how hard theywork, they will never be as great as they want to be.

This show is really just five years old? It seems like it has been on forever. Maybe because while it is on much shorter than let's say Supernatural, it belongs to the same era.

I did know that. It's definitely not the American horror flicks used me to.

The main theme of Deep Red is basically a rockier version of Tubular Bells, but I love it. Great drumming there.

I wonder about Brad Jones' sanity. Like, there's the bottom of the barrel, and then there is the stuff he watches…

Damn you, words that sound so similar to each other that you think they mean the same thing, although they definitely not!

People who keep up with the show - can you say that it significantly improves in the second season? I liked the previous one well enough, but I don't really feel compelled to check out the new one. Although I'm generally interested in depictions of Asian American life.

Week after week, I continue to be fascinated by the enigma of Dolph Ziggler, the guy who has the look of a hair metal Adonis, but reveals himself to be a complete dork everytime he speaks. It's the earnestness, I think.

Pantera is not my kind of stuff (although respect DD's mad guitar skillz), but I think AiC had some powerful songs.