Insert obligatory complaint about how it's still not possible to play Riven on a Mac, even though the Real- version has existed for the better part of a decade.

He knew the ending, back when this was supposed to be a trilogy. Since then he's proliferated characters, settings, and plotlines, and deferred any progress that might lead up to the conclusion of the story. He might know broadly where he wants the story to end up, but he has no idea how to get there from here.

Surely it's clear by now that Martin is never going to finish this series? And not because he's slacking off, or because he'll die before he manages it, or because he's fat (I have no idea what his fatness has to do with it, but it always seems to come up). It's because he has no idea how, and is clearly less and…

Trump, meanwhile, has so many scandals that are objectively more objectionable that they all kind of get lost in the noise.

It's fine to say that Civil War doesn't come down on a side (though I think that's exaggerating it quite a bit), but let's not pretend we don't know how the film's ending is going to be resolved. Steve and the people he broke out of prison will stay hidden for a while, and then when Thanos shows up in Infinity War…

Yes, Nick Fury was a strong supporter of the surveillance state, and he signed off on Project Insight, which would have turned the entire world into his personal police state. And yet, at the end of Winter Soldier and in his appearance in Age of Ultron, is he behind bars? Is Steve properly derisive towards him and…

True, but what does that have to do with Ryan Coogler?

Because that is a thing that happens with black directors, like Woody Allen and Roman Polanski.

The problem is that these movies inevitably undermine themselves, not just by being superhero films - and thus always concluding that the way to solve their problems is through hitting large things with even larger things - but by backing away from the full implications of their stories. Winter Soldier is the most…

Hey, you're the one who seems worked up.

Well, you certainly seem to be.

Is it just me, or do both the question and the answer in the Newsroom segment feel really diplomatic? I mean, given what a lightning-rod for critical derision that show became I wouldn't blame Pill for not wanting to rehash it, but when you come to talk about The Newsroom - and with the actress who played one of its…

And on the contrary, the trailers for Ghostbusters were awful, and I think it's that, far more than the gender of the leads or the hate campaign against the movie, that killed its performance. By the time the film came out, the fact that the reviews were broadly positive (albeit not enthusiastic) wasn't enough to…

Also, on a personal level, it's not like her death was a tragedy. She was 92, and according to some comments above was still politically active as of this year, so her mind was still clear (well, as clear as it had ever been). Everyone dies, and Schlafly got a lot more life than many other, better people.

Johnny Depp has also had successes. Kitsch hasn't.

It's week three of catching up on all the TV I didn't watch this summer! This week we have a special appearance from a show I didn't watch this spring!

Is it perhaps time to admit that the fall season/spring season model, especially for action-adventure shows, is not working? I can see why it makes sense in principle - get around the problems of writing a 22 episode season at a time when no one knows how to write standalones anymore and everyone's focusing on…

Wow! 8th place and the season hasn't even started! I'm sure this won't last.

Wow, I thought I was the only person who even knew this show existed. It was often cheesy - as in a lot of stories of this type, the main character was the weakest aspect of the whole thing - but as the article says, it touched on a lot of complex themes and was willing to take its story to dark places. Pilot's…

Like Jane the Virgin, the critical reception to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend makes it more or less cancellation-proof (though the CW may start nudging the writers to think of wrapping both shows up reasonably soon, especially when the shine starts wearing off). I'd say that iZombie and Supergirl will both be in much greater…