Could you be just a little more condescending with your remedial grasp of storytelling posed as guru-wisdom?

It's a shitty arc if it only "gets off the ground" and becomes worthwhile toward the end.

If a show can't manage to demand your attention after three hours, and in some instances actively repels it, why are you, as a viewer, expected to give it the benefit of the doubt for up to five more hours?

Why? Because True Detective has the critic's stamp of approval and Low Winter Sun doesn't?

He's talking about the Liggotti thing and other instances of homage some feel border on or exceed the line of plagiarism.

Nothing worse than a show being declared "Genius!" Not because I hate great works, but because in the realm of television that means, "Alright, you can stop trying, now. Any misstep can and will be rationalized away as the avant-garde experimentation of an auteur."

I'll just wait until Pizzolatto does a dozen more preemptive interviews about the "right way" to watch this season and how cleverly he subverts expectation. It's always a sign of masterful writing when the audience can't intuit the author's intent from the work itself, isn't it?

Hannibal has the protagonist essentially hallucinate, revels in pop psychology, and even shares the macabre tone of this show.

The bond is what I have a problem with.

I'm trying to figure out if watching all that Donnie jiggling was worth the Tatiana Maslany twerking. I just don't know, man; I just don't know…

My opinion can be summed up by a somewhat dickish Charlie Brooker quote:

I just found out the recaps I told you about have been archived:

If you want some great analysis on The Shield, a poster here named wallflower did recaps in the comments section of the reviews here for each episode. Granted, they're long and some reach in the "please drink the Kool-aid with me" sense; still, he has a keen eye for the importance of cinematography and the ethos that…

People didn't watch The Shield to the end because they weren't constantly told it was "high art"; The Shield was merely entertainment. A silly little cop show

I'm not going to waste letters typing some contrarian treatise in a sea of sentimental "Goodbye, show I love and am in the midst of romanticizing", so I'll keep it short:

No, you snide, condescending dickhead, but straw-manning is such an easy debating tactic.

This wasn't interesting, either. It covered the same ground of "Oh, I'm so damaged, but I'm sure if I keep having epiphanies without actually fundamentally changing my behaviors, it'll work out!"

The praise has convinced me that nothing short of utter contempt for one's audience (like making them believe their cable went out) can counteract a certain level of hype and goodwill.

I like to think I'm one of those "Come on, you pathetic losers, we've got the internet; let's not be creeps" tossers, but I'll admit I started cheering when I was watching True Detective and it dawned on me that shirt was actually about to come off.

No, no. She's much more interesting off-screen. Trust us.