Sure, I mean, I don't have too many issues with his actual gameplay (although I really did think he was going to throw it all away trusting Kimmi), but it's all just kind of soured for me because he employed a strategy that made it an unfair fight. Like, vote for Jeremy and support his growing family! Vote against…

I'm not exactly angry that Jeremy won - he seems like a good guy and all; I'm just annoyed that his jury strategy was so transparently emotionally manipulative. He held on to the secret of Val's pregnancy until exactly the most effective moment, and then dropped it on the jury as if to say, "Any votes for Spencer or…

Yeah, it's a pretty realistic depiction of what a bunch of teenagers would do if they were suddenly granted world-altering powers beyond the conventional laws of nature. That they didn't spend their whole days trying to come up with magical masturbation techniques is really commendable. Especially considering all the…

Oh, yeah, King did have a really good climax.

The climax to Land was kind of the only part of the books I wasn't 100% sold on. It felt like Grossman was frantically spinning plates and some ended up in pieces on the floor. But yeah, the show has me a little worried, for a variety of reasons.

You hit on the main difference between Harry Potter and The Magicians. In HP, by the later books, pretty much all the kids are beacons of decency and good sense (all the non-Slytherins, at least). All they do is run around trying to stop Evil from coming back, and looking out for justice. Whereas the teenagers in The…

And some stuff involving a man-fox-god that I won't mention.

The blatancy of the rip-off is what made it work for me. If he had tried to hide what he was doing it would have bothered me. But Grossman's stealing liberally from two of the most popular fantasy series ever, so there's absolutely no way to cover up what he's up to. So it's more like like a remix of Harry Potter…

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After I saw the BBC miniseries, I finally got around to reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. That's probably not the order most people experienced the story, but it worked really well for me. The miniseries was good, definitely not great, but the book was really incredible. And it's all about the footnotes,…

Ryan Murphy is David E. Kelley without the skill to actually construct a narrative. He should succumb to the niche that's been calling him his whole career and make the full transition to only making music videos.

I really wanted to put Community as the worst TV show to 2015, but the field doesn't allow write-ins. And this is coming from a super fan of the first 2.5 season of the show.

There was something so primally satisfying to me watching all of Savage's Survivor dreams go down in flames. I hate the players who have that whole attitude that the game owes them something because of how incredibly successful they are at everything else. Plus I naturally just root for the underdog, because who wants…

I agree with this whole-heartedly. Taylor Swift sure can write some catchy songs, but the sentiment behind them seems wholly aggregated from what she thinks her fans will relate to, rather than any of her real-life experience, the end result being that nothing she sings about seems genuine.

Yeah, there were mistakes made all around. You're right that Mulaney is just not an actor - he makes Jerry Seinfeld seem like a proper thespian by comparison. And sure, his influences don't really fit into what people consider sophisticated, edge of zeitgeist, comedy. I guess what I really want isn't Mulaney being all…

I guess I just want to know what happened. I feel like he was riding such a huge wave of goodwill - everybody who cared about such things knew he had co-created Stefon, possibly the funniest thing SNL had done in years, and his special was amazing - so everybody, myself included, really thought the show was going to…

I agree that he's no doubt treading carefully so as to not offend someone, probably Lorne. And he's not wrong to tip-toe around alienating the man who gave him his career and who he might end up working with again in the future. But it still feels like a betrayal of those of us who really, really wanted the show to be…

I feel like what he was aiming for was something a lot more absurd and referential, sort of like the little skit that plays under the credits of New in Town, but that idea got dumbed down and diluted by any number of factors (but probably a bunch of execs who didn't "get it") until what ended up airing played almost…

The fact that Mulaney thinks Mulaney was good and funny kind of blows my mind. I mean, he's obviously too close to the show to have any kind of impartial perspective on it, but it taxes my brain to try to reconcile how someone so, so funny and who I respect as a comedian (and as a proud Asian-American woman) could…

This episode was a huge step up for me from the last episode. This one at least had, you know, occasional forward plot momentum and Red Devils, no Ariana Grande cameos, and weird-beard Nick Jonas. But yeah, it's ridiculous at this point that people keep incapacitating the killers and not, you know, taking a second to…