You've never messed with Santa Claus

It's like they never figured out that shitty pulp movies are meant to be soulless cash grabs aimed at stupid people, but instead passionately over-commit energy and resources into totally derivative genre fare.

I love your music man! Also, not sure how trends are going in the US, but in Australia most restaurants with communal dining realize that they're putting you through a ringer for the sake of fast and easy table space and price down accordingly, so if you want really good food at a price that doesn't fuck you in the…

I kind of like the fact that the biggest weapon at the disposal of the GR is that their silence allows others to read into them anything they want whilst neither validating or disputing that reading, and yet here in the reception of the show we're engaged in exactly the same process of trying to read their meaning and…

It was meant to be a mystery, to hook people in. Unfortunately the troglodyte masses demanded immediate answers, and in their rage robbed us of a slow, well-paced unveiling of the enigmatic core of the show's premise.

Yeah, it's been a while since I've Hellblazered, but as I recall it barely registered, mostly because the character treated it with such blase. I've got more of a problem with them playing him up as a heroic leading man, as opposed to a wily, cowardly, self-pitying, roguishly lovable failure of a human being. I find…

Presumably the alien psychic rape baby is good, whilst the robot baby is bad. Eventually they must battle over the skyline of Manhattan for all our futures.

Weirdly enough my main thought was actually "I want to see Treme on the border." The Wire was so often concerned with making an explicit point regarding it's institutions whilst Treme always seemed to be aiming at something far more elusive in terms of the spirit or culture that informs a locale, which for me fits…

Given that the list draws from such a broad range of media it would have been nice to see at least one computer game represented, especially since GoT is popularizing so many of the tropes that have underpinned the CRPG genre since its inception

You, sir, are the worst, just the worst. I'm not as extreme as others on the internet, so I won't tell you to kill yourself, but maybe just drink too much tea until you feel all bloated and sleepy and like yourself a little less.

And it was FRIDAY… it was the Empire State Building on a FRIDAY… so… you know… too many coincidences…

I can't wait until he and Dalton get it on

The only bum note in that scene was the rather on the nose "the best that I've had since Eden" comment. Anyone else find that just over the top? I prefer to think of Malvo as having a very strange, dangerous psychology, not simply being a symbol for "pure evil." Pure evil is so easy to write off, while someone who…

Does it make me a sickening person that I kind of want Lester to get away with everything, Tim Robbins "The Player" style? All this talk of a moral comeuppance just doesn't seem to fit with the universe that the show has built.

Yep, so much of the show is about people in a small, static horizon of possibilities that refuse to admit how much darkness can be found under the surface. Like Bill refusing to comprehend the scope of what he is dealing with and taking the first quotidian, understandable explanation that presents itself, or the FBI…

It is nice how they do characterization on this show by giving each character a few noticeable traits, then when it is required they draw those points together to form an integrated constellation of identity. It really pushes that sense of moving from an external to an internal understanding of a person, as what once…

Don't bother arguing with people who start their opinions with "I don't know, it just…". It is… never worth it.

Yup. This is one of my favorite jokes the show has ever done: implying that a generic franchise restaurant is so homogenous that even metaphysically pure beings such as angels are unable to ontologically distinguish them, making every goddamn fast-food outlet some kind of spiritual black hole.

Why did they need to make pretty crying man a special guest star? Their storytelling would benefit from making more side characters regulars.

The idea that angels could be metaphysically confused by the repetitious nature of franchise restaurants is the most hiarious things I have ever seen on television.