*golf clap*

The Dead Snow review I could find was done by Scott Tobias, this one is by Mike D'Angelo. Am I missing something?

"On the plus side"! Because it's a comment about money! I totally get it.

Is this a thing we're doing now; insulting one thing by comparing it to another awesome thing? Because if so, I don't know how I feel about that.

Huh, I did not know that! AC is a huge blind spot for me, even though I've noticed (very peripherally) all the cool things they've been up to over the last few years.

You're right, the reaction is very human, very believable, and right for her character; there was just something about the way it was presented in context that raised my hackles a bit. It seemed to me as if the show did all of the work to show us where Michaela's reaction was coming from, but no effort to let her know…

Yeah, I have absolutely no problem seeing where the reaction came from on a character level, and the situation played out in a very believable way. There was just something about the way it was presented in the show that rubbed me the wrong way, that made it feel to me like maybe the show was condoning the prejudice,…

Yeah, that's where my mind went as well.

I know that Aguirre-Sacasa never went away from comics completely, but I hope this is a sign of him returning to the field in a big(ger) way. I loved a lot of the stuff he did for Marvel towards the end of the aughts; he's a pretty underrated writer, with a voice that was very distinctive back then (at least compared…

Did anyone else feel a bit skeeved out by how damning Michaela was of her fiancée's same-sex dalliance, and how the show didn't really offer up any kind of counterpoint? I normally don't have anything against ambiguity in my fiction, but even with how enlightened and representative HTGAWM has been so far, I still felt…

Sepinwall and Fienberg have talked a couple of times on their podcast about how she was the best thing in the original pilot, and how everything else got better when pilot was reshot with Lauren Graham, paradoxically enough.

Judging from the first episode, I don't think there's any need to worry.

Anything Sally Wainwright is even vaguely affiliated with needs to be on such a list (Happy Valley, Scott & Bailey). New Zealand's Step Dave is the best hour-long romantic comedy TV series I've ever seen (not that it's a broad field, but it's still a pretty perfect little show). Ripper Street took a dramatic leap in…

If anyone had told me I'd be crushing hard on someone other than Cristin Milioti on a show featuring Cristin Milioti, I'd be pretty incredulous. But Christina Kirk just does all sorts of things for me as Lydia, starting with giving one of my favourite out-of-the-box comedy performances in a long time.

Yes, pay no mind to the byline; all the reviews on this site are actually written by the same person.

Yeah, I feel like this was the best episode I've seen in a season or so.

It's not to do with negative space per se (sorry), but more that the negative spaces have varying effects when used by someone meticulous about setting up their locations and environments (O'Malley, or, say, Kirby), and someone who's a bit more sparing of such detailwork (Cassaday). I didn't think that when I first…

To play devil's advocate for a second; Cassaday's art can look a bit run-of-the-mill at a surface glance, and especially at normal US comic size. I only have the first two Planetary collections at hand right now, but the lay-outs there are very very basic, favouring the large panels that became an (unfortunate)…

I don't know why I keep being surprised by how both Frankenstein and Dracula hold up as legitimately great books every time I return to them. It might be that their impact have been so extreme that no one ever talks about them as literature, more like cultural touchstones

Nice work, as per usual. Love the sexual politics perspective; makes for engrossing reading even though I'm still not watching the show. I blame the fall season starting up, and my shameful tolerance for mediocre network dramas.