There are really just no words for the end of "Party Favors." It's as thrilling, awful, stomach-churning, and heart-in-the-throat blindsiding (but in a way where you should have seen it coming) as pretty much any TV scene I've seen in my entire life. It's horrible and I hate it, but it's also completely perfect, all…

The Big Reveal did inspire some "Huh?" in me, I admit, but I would have liked to see it play out in season 4 all the same.

I'm disappointed by this. Not totally gutted or anything, but bummed. I thought season 3 was a big improvement on the first two and it became a show I genuinely looked forward to each week. I'll go so far as to say that in the tiny TV subgenre of modern-day Western-ish lawman action, I think Longmire had a better 2014…

Well I'm an atheist but I loves me some Christmastime. I can grab some Christmas cookies and hot cocoa and do my annual Die Hard/Home Alone back-to-back marathon. The good ol' "Die Alone" combo.

The depressing post-Soviet Russia location is one of my favorite things about the movie. I think it gives it an interesting look/atmosphere.

Probably not.

Probably not.

I don't remember as much about this episode as some of the other episodes of the season. I remember Spartacus closing his eyes, holding his arms out and letting the fates decide whether or not the throwing spear hits him in the arena being badass. I remember being all "Oh shit!" when he throws Gnaeus off the cliff. I…

Kudos to Vanessa Marano for doing that stunt where Daphne shoved Bay flying off her feet like five feet back on her ass for real (her face was in the shot; it wasn't a stuntwoman). I winced sympathetically!

Well, I won't pretend to know exactly what goes on behind the scenes of AV Club, but I assume Kate specifically volunteered to review the show. I doubt they considered all the shows you just mentioned and were like "Nope, Spartacus alone it is! Here, review Spartacus now!" Maybe if someone steps up to review all of…

Thing in the Pit was awesome, Spartacus and Crixus' fight with Theokoles the next episode was even better, but the back-to-back Barca/Sura deaths at the end of this episode made my jaw his the fucking floor when I first watched the show and definitely marked the moment where I was like "Welp, I'm officially on board.…

Now if only Netflix would try to capitalize on Prattmania by finally putting Everwood on watch instant.

The Mario one was definitely more fun and really captures the FEEL of the Marioverse, but the Link to the Past one is pretty interesting in its own way, specifically for how it doesn't feel like Zelda. It's a lot stranger and creepier and more bittersweet in the end than Zelda usually is. Ganon's castle at the end was…

"Why do you want to be an astronaut?"

Well, her dressing up as Luigi was actually just a byproduct of switching clothes with Luigi so that HE could pretend to be Peach so he could pretend to give himself up and rescue Mario from the tower. Then after getting caught, Peach launches her own operation whilst still dressed as Luigi.

It actually kind of seems like the opposite movie to Gravity to me. Interstellar is more like "space is cool," Gravity is like "space is goddamn terrifying."

That was great too. Generally I think the RPGs have done better by her than other Mario games.

Her floating is also pretty useful in a handful of tricky spots in Super Mario 3D World.

Princess Peach has not always been so bland - she was downright badass in the Super Mario Adventures comic book series published in Nintendo Power. Maybe her best scene ever is in the comic when she dresses up as Luigi to sneak into the Koopalings' tower, pulls out a bomb and threatens to blow them all up, then just…

Quick blink-and-you-miss it moment, but I'm pretty sure that Daphne telling whatshisname that the paint was her sister's when they were breaking into the site was the first time on the show she's explicitly called Bay her sister.