No one is forcing you, or anyone, to see this film.

This was one of my favorite shows last year. It's excellent in the "monster as metaphor"-genre, and I don't feel like it was rushed at all. Like Doctor Who, it has long-running plots and episodic ones, but its episodic ones twist and turns and all turn out to be magnificently more complicated than at first look. (And…

Thank you! There's a longer and more eloquent, a phrase in which here means "prosaic" and heartfelt, version of the review here, if you'd like to take a look. https://www.goodreads.com/r… It's an amazing book and a very fitting end to the Baudelaires story, I think.

I see it less as lying and more as keeping the truth away from people. But you can't really blame Handler for stacking the deck, which is a classic thing to do towards the end of a story, and simplifying a lot of this to make the orphans, who are in a story where no one is really good or evil objectively, but all have…

Yes. Because the story is about them, not us, which again is a huge point of the series.

TONS OF SPOILERS.

The Drawing is, in my opinion, one of the weaker novels. Odetta is incredibly annoying at the start. But then the whole thing gets reeeealllyyy good in book three.

I think it's "Mao Two", since the title refers to a piece by Andy Warhol, not the person. I think.

I finally read Infinite Jest this year, and now I'm just getting into Don DeLillo (read Mao II and The Body Artist). Next year, I'll probably reread Infinite Jest because it still feels like I've only read half, but before that I'll finish off On the Road and start City on Fire, which I hope is good. This Norwegian…

I did not like this episode. It had so little personality; most of it just felt like someone who'd seen some episodes and figured out how it worked, but had nothing to really add. I felt like watching someone go down a checklist titled "this is what a Doctor Who-episode should be". Alien plot, check. Immortality…

My theory now; the divorce happens, Olivia and Fitz gets together, drama drama drama, happy ending of season 5, and then in season 6 (I think Rhimes has said that it'll be a maximum of six or seven seasons… or something) shit hits the fan, characters start dying like flies, consequences abound and we get the whole…

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The books are alright, but in the way that they make you keep reading. Whenever you stop and think about it for more than a few seconds, there are so many stupid questions that pop up.

Ethan is such an idiot, to the point where I didn't believe his action any point he did something clever, but yes this was pure entertainment and I rushed through book one and two.

That's my biggest disappointment so far. I'm betting they did it to stop comparisons with The Village..

This was a less than good episode of Scandal, but I'm crossing my fingers so hard they bleed that this is the false win before season five (and hopefully the last, can't see this show going much further) brings the pain. Everyone's still doing the right things for the wrong reasons, and going with my theory that the…

This was a trainwreck. So of course I'll be watching it every week.

The writing is like Sorkin, with every third word being "fuck" and every plot-point or opinion being compared to sexual acts and/or genitals. So on, it's pretty much just insufferable. Like a ragingly horny sixteen-year old who's never fucking gotten his cock wet inside either a whore's mouth, not to mention a fucking…

I feel like A.V. Club just doesn't understand this show anymore. This episode wasn't amazing, but it was alright and it put the pieces into place for this season' (and also the series') endgame. Scandal has always been a tragedy, with the conflict between justice/career as its central dilemma. This episode had…

I cannot fathom why Alston complains about the monologues. It's like criticising How I Met Your Mother for the unnecessary time-jumps, or The West Wing for too much banter; Scandal is a show built on the monologue, and part of the fun is seeing the characters talk and talk and talk. Besides, those who do monologues…