I liked Another Earth a lot more than I expected to (I only saw it recently, after I'd heard the extremely divisive critical response to it), but Drive… I honestly don't get it. Visually, it's great, and the music is fantastic, but I didn't think the story or characters were particularly interesting. I couldn't have…

It gets *a lot* better. I wasn't a fan at first, but around the fifth episode or so, I realized I was hooked. That said, I would understand if it's not your thing, and it's definitely the kind of show I could see going downhill pretty quickly.

For me, it's not necessarily her death, per se, that's frustrating so much as the fact that they never really did anything with Beverly. I was excited for this week's episode because the preview showed that she was going to have an active role in the plot, but now it's like they just decided to give her the bare…

They also did it in such a lazy way. I don't buy for a second that Beverly would go into Hannibal's basement by herself (I know that happens in Silence of the Lambs, but at least there, it's well-done and it was filmed when serial killers didn't have such a huge presence in pop culture) or that Hannibal would somehow…

I've always been in this camp too, but I honestly think it could be interpreted either way. One of the reasons why I personally like it (though it's been a while since I last saw it) is how intensely subjective the POV is. Which, again, wouldn't be a problem if we didn't *only* get movies like that about white guys.…

Not that I'm entirely disagreeing with you, but "period piece" isn't, by itself, a sufficient reason to have an all-white and/or male cast. Non-white people didn't just suddenly appear in the 19th century.

It's not about numbers or hitting some abstract quota. It's about progress, and at the moment, we don't seem to be making much, if any.

Yeah, but those are just exceptions to the rule! Flukes! /sarcasm

Wait, Juno could've been a man? I'm not sure I get it.

Yeah, I heard about that. As much as I still like the show, I can't help but wonder what it would have been like if they kept Kate as the main character, which was what it sounded like the original plan was. I would have loved them to subvert expectations like that.

I have to say that Fox has become maybe my favorite TV network, partly because I'm watching both Sleepy Hollow and Almost Human, but also because while it isn't perfect, I do think their attention to issues of diversity is great. I remember reading somewhere (can't remember exactly where) that a Fox executive even…

After this episode, I'm starting to think that the vagueness of Virginia's character might be a deliberate intention. She keeps having to do stuff for other people (partly because that's just how she is and partly because she wants to be successful at her job and be able to take care of her family), but she never gets…

My main problem with NaNoWriMo is just that it kind of forces you to write a certain way. The story I'm working on at the moment is supposed to use more short, simple sentences because that's my narrator's voice, but I've been finding myself going on these long, rambling tangents in order to fill my word count.

I honestly never really compared the two. Aside from both being period pieces, they don't have much in common. Masters of Sex reminds me more of The Hour because both shows are fairly optimistic, and I'd probably say they're both more flat-out enjoyable than deep or complex (which isn't a bad thing for me).

While I wouldn't say Masters of Sex would get any awards for subtlety (really, I don't think I've seen many shows that would), I think the plotting feels natural enough that it doesn't come off as too contrived. For me, it's really a nice alternative to Mad Men (which is my favorite show that's still on) in that it…

I'm at 4,422 words right now, though I haven't started writing for today yet. It's kind of an understatement to say that my story is a mess, and it isn't really flowing the way I would like it to be (my dialogue feels so stiff and unnatural), but I just have to keep reminding myself that it's only a draft and the goal…

The problem is that I pretty much never have a full day available (like I said, college and homework). Right now, I've established a goal of around 2,000 words a day, so I should have a little leniency in case I end up having to skip a day or something. Your goal sounds pretty daunting, but I commend you for your…

Cool. This is either going to be helpful or make me feel more inadequate about my writing than I already do. Anyway, I managed to vomit out a little over 2,000 words, which is a decent pace, but I'm not sure I'll be able to keep it up because of college and homework. I'm really intent on finishing this year, but at…

I didn't have too much of a problem with the monologues about Virginia because I thought it was kind of an interesting twist on the MPDG trope, and I assumed it was intended to come off more as creepy or delusional than romantic.

Seriously. While I agree that the double standards are annoying, the fact that people seem to care more about the nudity in the show than the story or the characters or literally anything that actually has to do with its quality is even more annoying IMO.