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CausticAvenger
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Will this site ever figure out how to properly review Netflix seasons? This feels like an OITNB spambot attacked The AV Club.

I've never been able to embrace Katy Perry after the grossness of her "Ur So Gay"/"Kissed A Girl" phase, though it's undeniable that some of her singles are excellent. She always seems like she's trying way too hard in just about every way imaginable. Now that she's actually trying to *say* something with her music

I get the appeal, I've just never gotten into it. If I'm interested in an album, I buy it. I've never had the desire to stream anything.

I also need FX's Feud: Julianna and Archie about whatever the hell happened behind-the-scenes of The Good Wife.

It's only been out a few hours and you watched it all already? Hmm, I think someone is helping out hackers…

I've never understood the point of streaming music, but this level of shade thrown at Katy Perry fills my little gay heart with glee. I look forward to FX's Feud: Taylor and Katy devoting an entire episode to this crafty brilliance in the future.

No one is going to see a movie called Baby Driver except the biggest Edgar Wright fans (such as myself).

I've been saying the same thing for years. If Blumhouse can make these $5-$10 million horror movies that rake in huge profits, why can't someone do that with Friday the 13th?

Aw man. I'm all for Steven Avery getting proper justice, but she's throwing Dean Strang and Jerry Buting under the bus to do it? I can't stand for that.

Apologies to the CW DC shows, but Gotham continues to be far better than any of them. I think it helps that it doesn't rely on a single Big Bad per season, which can be done if you're Joss Whedon but otherwise gets boring over 22 episodes. It also helps that Gotham's tone is somewhere between '66 Batman and Burton's

Sure! I believe I saw this on Amazon Prime so I'll check it out.

Is this gonna be another High Maintenance deal where I watch an episode or two and then completely forget HBO airs it?

It's also worth noting that one of the better aspects of the show is that it's *structured* episodically. Even if it is based on a book, Fuller is too much of a TV pro to fall into the "8-hour movie" trap that often plagues Netflix series. The opening segments that kick off each episode are usually my favorite part of

I'm actually a time traveler from the 1960s who has never experienced this thing known as "serialized television."

Weird, I could have sworn it airs episodically week to week.

Yes, as a non-book newb the lack of a central plot is killing the show for me. We didn't even get "there's a war" until last week, and even then it was mostly a throwaway line with no explanation. I'm not sure why there's a war or who's against who. This kind of reminds me of AMC's Preacher series in tone and

This sums up my feelings exactly. Episode 4 was also my favorite because it told a compelling, coherent story from beginning to end. The pilot also did a great job with that.

Of course there's nothing wrong with narrative untidiness and deliberate mysteries. I'm someone who loved Lost, Twin Peaks, BSG, and every Bryan Fuller show before this one. I love me a vague mystery!

Explaining what's going on with the plot and why you should care about major characters on the show may be boring, but it makes better television. Otherwise they're just throwing random images up on screen with no purpose.

What's weird is I'm loving the new Twin Peaks, and David Lynch is obviously the king of WTF TV. But for some reason the way this "mystery" is structured just doesn't work for me. It seems disjointed and intentionally vague.