Yeah, this was one of those YA books I read at slightly too late an age (19?), and at that point the main character was already insufferable. I foresee any movie adaptation magnifying the insufferableness at least tenfold.

Technically the Harry Potter books were marketed as middle grade (which is the age group below young adult but above children's books).

Sure, and I think that's a reasonable criticism. I'm just speaking to the idea that Mitchell wrote Scarlett as a conventional, admirable heroine and expected her to be received that way—she absolutely did not.

Mitchell herself said that she didn't know why so many people took to Scarlett the way that they did, and that the "true" heroine of the novel was Melanie. (I think she's being a bit disingenuous there—why write a thousand-page novel about Scarlett if you don't think people will find her a compelling character?—but…

Yeah, I agree. I think the film alternates between moments where it's obviously condemning Belfort (when he attempts to kidnap his kid and crashes the car, for example) and moments where it's obviously romanticizing him (there aren't that many ways you can make having sex with a beautiful woman look unappealing). My…

People have always complained about Hollywood trends, but the difference between then and now is that the film industry has contracted so much in the past twenty years, with more and more of a focus on huge tentpole films/potential franchises, that on-trend blockbusters make up a much greater percentage of the total…

Seth MacFarlane is the kind of celebrity who'll inspire boycotts, not hate-watching. What you actually want is somebody who will make people curious if they can pull it off (like Underwood), not somebody who's already offended a bunch of people.

Even with last year's numbers, Sound of Music Live essentially just barely beat out a Big Bang Theory re-run (and lost to it in the 18-49 demographic). This year's numbers were obviously worse, but I don't think NBC needed to pull last year's kind of numbers to make this worthwhile.

I also thought Louderman's performance was the most grating. And I have seen it before—her character is annoying, but her performance made it worse.

After this, just give it to Borle and Kelli O'Hara.

More specifically, in regards to Peter Pan—the "Indians" in Peter Pan aren't actual Native Americans. They, along with the pirates and fairies and mermaids, are intended to be a reflection of children's play fantasies. They're racist and inaccurate, but of course they should be. They exist in a fantasy world as…

Gawker's mostly trying to win page views by making themselves the center of Peter Pan Live snark. They've been pushing it hard for weeks. Even if it had been spectacular, they'd have claimed it was terrible.

If it's anything that has become part of pop cultural lore—Darth Vader is Luke's father, Rosebud is a sled, Janet Leigh dies in the middle, Bruce Willis is already dead—then go for it. Otherwise, I don't see what's so difficult about adding what's literally a three-word warning (SPOILERS FOR X) at the top of a post or…