I think you're majorly oversimplifying in Point 1. As others have mentioned, the indication is that Cassidy was physically able to rape Veronica because she was unconscious and he had no emotional attachment to her. She was just a body. Having sex with Mac was clearly a different situation.

I haven't been to Sundance or TIFF in several years, but when I would go, I definitely developed festival-goggles. By mid-fest, if a film was light-hearted and funny, I was pretty blind to its faults. I would go home and a few months down the road something like "Camp" or "L'Ultimo Bacio" would show up in theaters and…

It also feels like people can talk about Matthew's impotence more openly because they have the pretext of discussing motherhood. Matthew was more explicitly referring to sexytimes when he spoke to Lavinia, but Mary and Lavinia could just be discussing the impossibility of having children. They're not, but because that…

I think she's genuinely remorseful about what she did to Cora in Season 1, particularly when she discovered that Cora was never planning to get rid of her. Instead, Cora was loyal to O'Brien despite Lord Grantham's bad opinion of her. Once O'Brien learned that, I think she became completely devoted to Cora - in return…

"The material would work better as an audiobook or stage show—in print, it occasionally comes across as Dave Barry-esque absurdism, straining for wackiness, where a personal delivery would make it more natural."

Meta-King is definitely in the conversation for worst thing SK's ever put to page, and I might just be downplaying that piece in my mind when it comes to 7. All I can really remember is the feeling that the story was back on the track it had been on for 1-3, and I unreservedly LOVE the ending, so there's that. I…

@avclub-c987daec78a75f34ac5cf62b5f62352b:disqus I definitely don't agree that W&G is the best of the series, but I wonder how much I would like it as a standalone book. It's hard to judge, because I really hate the way it derails the narrative, which then doesn't get back on track until Book 7. There is so much…

@bitter young man mostly nailed it, but what makes George's "wonderful life" shudder-worthy for me is the way the otherwise good people in his life happily take advantage of him in order to better their own lives, while knowingly making his worse. It's not surprising that Potter will take every advantage. It's a…

Right, but I would assume that you wouldn't criticize Up All Night by saying that Christina Applegate only gets jobs because of her double mastectomy, and that she's just using her battle with breast cancer to further her career. Because it's not relevant. Tracey Gold's survivor status is the reason she hosts this…

"'The Lovely Bones' is a deplorable film with this message: If you're a 14-year-old girl who has been brutally raped and murdered by a serial killer, you have a lot to look forward to." BOOM.