"Unrealistic" is the criticism that often gets tossed at the serial killer plotline, but I think the real issue is that it doesn't really feel like it has that same nuanced perspective on the world that other story lines have. I mean, yeah, Hamsterdam requires a bit of a suspension of disbelief, but it takes us…

"I'm on the fence" while Cam was standing in front of giant fence was a weird one, too. I knew what was coming, and not only had time to think about it, but consider how weird and unlikely that situation would be for a non-athletically inclined adult at a crowded sporting event. It seemed like a long way to go for…

"Post-mononormative" could be a useful and somewhat distinct concept in a deeply conceptual academic dissertation on sexual identity. It seems worth discussing the subtle and overt ways in which society pressures people into certain kinds of relationships, privileges and normalizes those who have them, and why that's…

Right, but Millar wrote at least half of those plot developments. Iron Man was possibly, maybe, arguably more of a dick in other books, but by the end he's basically a monster even in the core titles. "He was right in principle" is like saying that Stalin's belief in respecting the worker is a good one. You can…

Yeah, the fact that Millar apparently thought Tony was the hero is just weird, though. He essentially robs Thor's grave to clone a zombie version of his dead friend to do his bidding. It's hard to parse that in any non-villainous way.

Oh, there's absolutely no way a show breaking this many ratings records doesn't get run into the ground. Even if every second thus far had been flawless, we could still count on it going at least three season too long. Hell, there's a spin-off in the works, which just seems crazy.

That's kinda me. At it's best, it's a corny zombie romp, which are at least as much fun for the ridiculousness as the plot itself. (Sometimes) fun to watch; fun to mock; that's a win-win! It's nowhere near my favorite show, but I can still get some enjoyment out of it.

TGW may be my favorite show at this point, but I find that parody just way too over the top. Look, much of True Detective can be overly self-serious for what it is, and those after-shows are almost always awful, but this version is the broadest, least nuanced take on them imaginable. It's a radical enough tonal…

Whether or not you enjoy the first season is going to depend a lot on your tolerance for watching a series find its legs. There's a charming simplicity to a lot of it, but also more than its fair share of goofy concepts/execution and all time series lows. Here are some highlights and some stuff that fills in needed…

I don't know if you're into modern sci-fi TV at all, but so much of the language and structure of stuff like Buffy, Lost, BSG, etc, is cribbed from the X-Files that it's almost worth watching just for the background in media literacy it offers. Even less related stuff like procedurals borrow from the Mulder/Scully…

15th century Wallachia was a brutal hellhole primarily used as a political football between the Ottomans and Hungary to keep the other one from massing too close to their borders. Citizens could be tortured, murdered, or kidnapped at any time by either side or their own leaders based on shifting power dynamics,…

Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on that. Clay didn't die because he was played by the best, highest profile actor on the show. Keeping him around wasn't shocking so much as it was the same kind of cowardly bet-hedging that any standard network drama routinely engages in.

Not that this is necessarily proof of anything, but the logic of the whole statement is pretty shaky. Audience turnout for the Fantastic Four movies has been pretty disappointing in general, but I garauntee that virtually nobody is going because they are a fan of the current comics but otherwise don't have much…

The internet took it to its usually insane extreme, but David has a bit of an ego about him, and I say that as sometimes-fan. X-Factor was cancelled because not enough people were reading X-Factor. Marvel might put more emphasis on single issues, but if it were their trade bestseller, it would still be here. We're…

^This. A big body count and torture porny deaths aren't shocking because they happen all the time. Shocking would be to have Gemma killed in Episode 6 by like the 8th name in the credits. Shocking would be to have everyone who tried to massacre 20 Chinese guys in broad daylight arrested and have it stick, leaving…

As a hobby project, I'm trying to see all the Shakespeare plays performed live before I see movie adaptations. I've seen about two-thirds, but outside of Richard III and the Henry IVs, the history plays are just damn near impossible if you don't live in London or near one of the 2-3 major year-round Shakespeare…

I'll let you have the last word here because this is way too long to spend arguing with a racism apologist on the internet, but best case scenario, you've now spent more than a week arguing that a term isn't as racist as it looks, sounds, and is perceived to be by a significant percentage of the people it describes.

To make the 1,395th unfavorable Shield comparison, remember how Vic Mackey was clever and charming, but the sheer weight of his misdeeds caused virtually everyone to abandon him? How even though nobody can really prove anything, one by one Julian, Claudette, Dutch, Corrine, Cassidy, Dani, Shane, and pretty much every…

The etymology of the term has been discussed extensively here, so I'll charitably assume you didn't read that far. No one ever assigned the term to any specific person or time period, and its use as a pejorative goes back a bare minimum of 50 years. All this is readily accepted by pretty much everyone, as even the…

Depending on how much credit you feel like giving the show, that could be intentional. Gemma has always used her family as an excuse to go after the things SHE wants, and Jax takes after his mom. I mean, if he thought for two seconds about what Tara would want, he would've quit the club and taken the kids to go…