Don't worry, this is unintentional on the writers' part, just like when they accidentally flirted with making Carl a zombie post-apocalypse version of a child soldier, but then it turned out it was just bad writing and unintentionally wooden acting.

Fairly sure dying of thirst over a couple of days would have been a better risk than getting promptly eaten by zombies in front of each other in, what, about an hour?

Redshirt family dies, foiling plan and leading to much quicker resolution of conflict. Symbol that two real characters use to work out their philosophical differences dies after proving on of those other characters right… BUT WHICH ONE?!?!!!?!11? Main character suffers SERIOUS INJURY which will have the long-term…

Upvoted for using Carv's real name.

I'm past the commenting frenzy, but I honestly don't understand how this gets a B-. The midseason break sapped all of the tension that might have inhered in the episode, as well as blunting the resolutions of each of the arcs. The plotting was terrible, the timeline made no sense, the outcomes were universally…

Someone already pointed out your parents' generation has a name. I don't read good at 1 a.m.

Does it need to be obscure? Bullitt is also hardly obscure—it is almost invariably cited and discussed whenever cars in movies are brought up.

Most teenage boys are way taller than that.

I'm okay with this existing as long as it doesn't in any way delay the production of additional episodes of Bojack Horseman.

What people often forget is that immediately after saying this, Lucas made PEW PEW laser noises for three hours interspersed with brief ejaculations of racially appropriative patois one-liners and then turned to the interviewer and said "See? That's the story I've always wanted to tell, and now I've finally got the…

Thanks, I wish I could remember why I think that. There is the bit in the movie where they start to squabble over the money, but that can't be it.

Isn't O Brother a quest to retrieve a treasure?

He's sent to retrieve money, but he then kills his own employer. He also kills other men in the same employ for no reason I can recall. He also seems not to have any actual need for money, or any human motivations at all. The Coens intentionally removed human motivations that he had in the book—where, for example,…

I agree (though "functioning society" is a bit strong) that the ending is relatively happy, and the ending paragraph about trout it ends with suggests something deeper, almost mystical. That said, The Road, like Blood Meridian, is rooted in a philosophy close to nihilism. When the Man sees the "cold truth of the…

Let's assume the cop he kills in the beginning had it coming because he stood between Chigurh and his objective (although, in the book, he purposefully let himself be taken after killing another man over nothing just to see if he could get out of it). After that he kills a passing motorist to take his car. He kills…

Is there hope? The movie has a butterfly or something to imply that the world may be recovering after its long winter, but my recollection of the book is that the world is done. The boy will never know warmth or security, will likely never know human affection or have children of his own, and will either starve to…

There's nothing righteous about Chigurh. He's the living embodiment of the amoral chaos that Bell obsesses over. The only thing that keeps him from being evil, to the extent he's not evil, is that he's so far removed from right and wrong as to make the question kind of silly.

In the book, I think the act of giving the kids money contributes to one or both of them becoming criminals. Does anyone who knows the book better than I do remember this?

The Road is probably not the best book to bring up to argue against the idea that McCarthy views the world as "meaningless, pointless, miserable and psychotic." I love that book, and I understand the virtue it finds in the father loving his son, but it explicitly posits that against an essentially nihilist view of…

Totally right. 1987—end of the Reagan when everyone expected the pendulum to swing back, but instead Gary Hart got himself caught with his pants down, Dukakis stumbled in like a comic relief dwarf and the country found itself voting for George H.W. Bush.