It's made quite explicit in this series that it's a virus that makes you amenable to his command rather than pheromones (like it is in the comics).

The tertiary characters are unbearable however. I liked this, but I'm going to need a few weeks and a rematch to figure out how I really feel about some of the storylines that go nowhere and some of the ridiculous characterisation. I fell like most of episode 11-13 is fat that needs trimming.

Robyn is the pits. That character could not be more one dimensional if they tried.

I thought more that he organised people to do it for him?

Does everyone else believe that he tried to commit suicide? My first thoughts on seeing him was that John Murphy and his Fahrenheit 451 squad threw him in with a weight. It seems like an impractical way to kill yourself.

The song choices in this show are the worst thing about a spectacular season so far.

The Sufjan Stevens at the end is an inspired choice. On the nose, sure. But one of the best themed song choices I've seen in a while.

If you want an example of an actual excellent song choice in a show, watch this week's episode of Casual. Sufjan Stevens' I Should Have Known Better is inspired in the scene it's used in.

That's tragic, but also, in the context were Olivia Newton John has already sung a verse explaining the fact that she needs a man, he's just repeating what she's saying. In a song with only a male voice its creepy.

absolutely

or like Maddin doing the film version of If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

1) Manu Bennett
2) Matt Nable
3) John Barrowman

Yeah, there's a nice sense of inversion happening that plays into the ominous tones of Miracle life. They're lucking and miraculous but could just as easily be the damned. John is a powerful figure who tries to secure the town (and its miraculous power) against outside influence. And there were goat slaughterings. And…

New director, new actors, and still just a Pizolatto script had me expecting a train wreck. Ever one of Pizolatto's statements in the lead up to the season only reinforced how bad the the thing was going to be. But then I thought the writing was easily the worst thing about season 1.

"It’s hard to think of a recent example of a show that seemed more doomed to failure going into its second season."

Actually, I attack the very notion of blame directly in the post you say you understand - so the idea that I "essentially blame the victim" is ludicrous. But more to the point, your comment is demonstrative of the very thing you claim to be against. You say you understand my point, but attack my approach, which you…

You clearly didn't read what I wrote. And I reject the straw man implication in your second last sentence.

Oh, I absolutely agree, I just think that the way we discuss these things needs to change.

The current social regulating force tells us that to be considered an adult we need to have good organisational skills, most of us had role models who swept their emotions under the carpet or else performed emotions to such an extent that they should be considered more of a lashing out against insecurity than an…

No I think this type of discussion is particularly played out, and leads to a space where misogynistic men feel more justified in thinking the way they think and activists attempt to exclude anyone from the conversation who isn't perceived to be victimised by the system. I think films and television shows which are…