I really liked No. It's also the final entry of a sort of Pinochet's Chile trilogy Pablo Larrain directed, and the previous entries are far darker, so yeah, it's not supposed to cover the whole regime so much as express the relief of its dissolution.

I think it's incredibly hard to hold the position that surviving depictions of Jesus made hundred of miles and years away from anyone who actually saw him must be accurate and realistic, given we know similar timelines and distances did not lend us anything approaching consistency, and this is before we factor in…

I do agree generally that some of these aren't so clearcut as to lump together with Mickey fucking Rooney doing his WWII propaganda turn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, but Othello's very emphatically a Moor, not an Italian, and his non-whiteness is the crux of the play.

In all honesty I think there's at least a decent chance he was the murderer, but do you not think you're far overstating the impossibility of Steven Avery doing a long prison stretch on a false pretence generated by local law enforcement hostility, given, y'know, that definitely happened to him once.

It's kind of their fucking job to come up with plausible alternatives to culpability, and how they go about that is significantly less egregious than how the cops go about spinning their version of events, accurate or not.

The first is best, but I think there's a lot of merit to the second series and the political standoff with the Prince Charles analogue, who's only trying to restore some sense of dignity and humanity to the country.

The first four episodes or so were actually pretty good and it was a lot of fun to see actors like Luis Guzman and Ed O'Neill deliver David Milch dialogue.

I'd recommend the Coen brothers remake of True Grit, Assassination of Jesse James, and (if contemporary setting is okay) Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Also, if 90s is still modern, Dead Man, Lone Star and Unforgiven.

I just recognise him as being reunited in the trailer with his brother from Rectify, Kerwin.

It's interesting then that the idea that expression comes first is one you presumably wilfully accept every time a dragon flies across the screen, but fiercely repudiate any time you see someone question the show's handling of its many rape scenes.

Whoops! You admitted utility of expression is more important than whether or not something happens in real life! Now you have to accept people's right to judge the scenes by their success as art and narrative instead of grandstanding about how the show is just too real for some people!

Or perhaps they do understand that and can appreciate its total irrelevance.

Having thought on it I can grant the Lamb people is one of the better instances, but only for the scene where Mirri takes revenge on Drogo and calls out Dany to think calling off the in-progress mass rape of her womenfolk was some grand act of generosity: that's about the only scene I can call to mind that sincerely…

No, but five (or more) are, and also apparently it falls to me to say that putting out something directed and acted and edited and scored to be a rape scene without knowing it is actually way the fuck worse than doing that on purpose.

Sansa getting rescued by the Hound, Jaime rescuing Brienne, Jojen / Bran rescuing Meera, just off the top of my head.

Without context I might agree, but the show's in the very routine habit of having the female characters face rape just to see how the male characters react, and that scene was really part of Theon's season arc.

You're really dishing these references out.

Just reading about this guy and it's pretty stunning that he railed against the DoJ for failing to prosecute CAIR on their tangential connection to an organisation that funded Hamas-linked charities, despite him personally having been a cheerleader for NORAID for decades. I bet the topic of Palestine doesn't come up a…

I binge-watched Mr. Robot in between two episodes of The Leftovers and the goddamn piano cover was stuck in my head for days.

I had thought that paid off in the season one finale when he rescues Jill and Nora elects to stay, and that this season finale intentionally echoed that one, although you're right to note that Tommy didn't actually set foot in the Garvey house last year.