Oh, I'll take "a word" with him any day…

Oh man, now I really need to read RIII again!  What a great play.  All of the women in it are fantastic, too.  Shakespeare does powerfully angry queens so, so well…

Ah, thanks for the explanation!  You did make it clear that it wasn't new, and I suppose this is a good time to highlight it.

We can agree to disagree!   I don't find it funny but I don't care if you do.

@avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus  No no, I totally understand the importance of the Zefferelli film.  Even if boobs aren't for me.   
But we studied a Shakespeare play every year in English, and I hated Hamlet.  I would have really liked King Lear instead.

Because I didn't care about spoilers and I love costume design, I started reading Mad Style before I watched the show.   I caught up on all five seasons this fall, and instead of wondering and worrying about the characters, I just focused on all the little things TLo taught me to look for.

I'm a little surprised that Tom and Lorenzo's Mad Style series would be considered new or noteworthy at this point.  I guess this website never really focuses on production values like costume design, but they've been doing this since at least 2009, and it's part of what made their website the huge brand it is.…

No one studies it in high school, though.  Hamlet is a whiny piece of shit.  The politics and angst in King Lear are a lot more interesting.  Plus, dude goes crazy.

This seems totally unnecessary.  Zefferelli has the lock on  nuanced period adaptations and Luhrmann already made the best R+J story OF ALL TIME.

You weren't referring to William Wegman's Weimaraner photographs and movies for Sesame Street, but your comment made me go look them up and that is a great thing.

I'm pretty sure most women reading it don't know that, though.

I don't think it's the best series I've ever read, but I do think it's a really wonderful series for teenage girls to read.  It's the opposite of Twilight:  that series is about a girl choosing between two exotic man-creatures who will love her forever, whereas  THG is about a girl fighting to save her family and her…

how can you ignore the lyrics, though?  Isn't that the whole point?

Those shows to me seem so voyeuristic and disrespectful of Amish culture in general.  The more devout Amish avoid photography at all; it seems incredibly rude to film their actions, even if it's scripted.  I'm not saying the Amish deserve special romantic treatment or anything, but I don't understand why we can't just…

I loved the books, but I agree that the movie made everything too easy for her.   Katniss came off as a Cool Tough Girl Warrior Hero, not as an emotionally scarred, traumatized, unaware, undergrown angry fighter, which is what made them interesting reading, since Collins isn't the best with description.

@avclub-9024f9f0a80d2d248c7c6efb2e715c37:disqus   You are literally the first person I have ever heard say that, and Lord knows I've been in plenty of Harry Potter-related discussions.   Including with non-fans and anti-fans.

@sarapen:disqus   That the book by Lev Grossman?  He makes sarcastic quips about Harry Potter all the way through.  Directly influenced by HP and Narnia, no question, even though it's focused on college angst rather than teenage angst.

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus   I completely agree.   I kept trying to like Happy Endings because everyone keeps talking about how great it is, but I can't tell if it's the jokes or the performances that don't land for me.
Not to derail this thread with Community talk, but I think a large part of the…

Boy, you're really trying for offensive bingo today, aren't you?

I've never liked how they all pile on Jerry, but the show has done enough work giving him outside self-esteem (his family, his hobbies, his large penis) that I don't mind it as much.