I read what I now believe to be an excerpt of this in the back of this week's Bitch Planet, and it really felt wrong. I firmly believe that rape culture and most aspects of the current power structures that regulate social identity and behaviour are incorrect, but I just as firmly believe that the types of social…

I feel like I just wasted 20 minutes on watching that pilot.

Except Mark Kozalek's toolery extends to making derogatory statements about professional women. Something a lot of people no longer have any tolerance for. More to the point, Morrissey's music is about being cynical and arch - he's a tool on record as well, while Kozalek's past two albums have been about sharing his…

This album is very different, more like 80's pop than his previous sound. Michael Jackson 80's pop at that.

any of them really, but Penny Dreadful works.

La Jetee is way better than the Twelve Monkeys film.

The Wire's first episode was the best first episode of a show I've ever seen.

only two episodes in and I'm optimistic these characters will not be stereotypes by the end but all these comments about the great characterisation makes me wonder if I missed something already. The African characterisation seemed overly stereotypical, as does the trans character and the closeted celebrity. These are…

Billy Wilder is a god. So many great, different films.

I would alway skip Yesterday. Always.

People who are looking for that message will find it in greater number in far more egregious places than this. But it depends on what you already feel about society and your place in it.

While I get and appreciate the humor in all this, surely Ratatouille and the others were looking at the ways the social fabric attempts to map itself onto all people in the same ways , this is not insidious it's just a regulatory function of social order. This does not in any way apply the logic that this makes people…

The TV show makes so very little sense. I'm liking this season less and less.

I think she meant if she had known about Barry from the beginning, she and Eddie may not have even been on that bridge. Which is true. Wells may have found her wherever she was, but she would not have been in there at that time in the context they were in.

She's been written very poorly. She comes across to superheroes what Catherine Keeners's character was to children's television show hosts in Death to Smoochy. She has the architecture of a great character and the plot lines of a disgusting stereotype. it's an awkward mix, and people hate on her more when she's being…

There are a few writing issues with this kind of character in general though. Their existence is always as some sort of subsidiary to a main character as a love interest, or wife, or some Role, which necessitates them falling on particularly stereotyped and frankly stupid reactions, that only make sense in the limited…

I loved that guy in the helicarrier from TWS.

So the trick is be wildly inconsistent out of the gate so that when you pull it together you're praised for that which you make stick, instead of having so much that's nigh perfect in place so that all people can see are the inconsistencies?

I like reviews that make me think, that force me to see something in an episode or a shot that I haven't seen before. Oliver is usually pretty reliable at giving me that, even if or when I don't agree. But in these reviews he has struck the same note again and again, and it's one that has more to do with him than it…

Actually one of the A-'s and the 'or better' were another reviewer. So it's three for three, on the front you're talking about. But that's not the issue: Daredevil is a violent show that looks at the impact that violence and power has on normal lives, as such virtually every character is attacked and at least at…