Yeah, they are pretty bad. "Elfstones", on which this series is allegedly based, is probably the best of them, but still: ugh.

How can it be "overrated"? I don't know anyone who regards it as a good movie. "Surprisingly watchable and entertaining", sure.

Hey it's cold here and it's cheaper than turning on the heat…

Why would Ash know if she had a sister? He meets her in Evil Dead 2 and they don't exactly get time to talk about their families…

Christ yes. The article above talks about how Olyphant can project unspoken menace (and he can), but McShane was just amazing at it in this series.

Cocksuckah!

That may be the greatest opening line in TV history.

It is my go to for "best TV show ever made" even though it didn't really get an ending. This is inevitably followed by "what about The Wire?" to which I respond, "The Wire is also very very good".

I obviously don't *know* that Sava wouldn't watch the show, but that's what it feels like.
As for movies vs. shows, I think the criticisms of Sava's reviews illustrates this pretty well. Nearly every week (or at least it feels that way) Sava criticizes the color palette the show uses. In a one time movie review, that…

I'm a white guy around your age (42 - maybe a little younger) and I grew up with nothing of the sort.

Whie "Sava hates the show" is too strong, it seems pretty clear that Sava wouldn't *watch*the show if he wasn't being paid to. For this kind of episodic review (as opposed to a one-time movie review) I really do think it is beneficial if the show is a show the reviewer would be interesting in watching anyway.

I think the episode is *much* stronger for *not* having Jessica spell out exactly why she's obsessed with Cage after killing is wife. It felt like it was very specific to Jessica, but that doesn't mean it has to be spelled out in a Lifetime movie speech - Jessica doesn't do those. The fact that you were able to see…

Hmm, I found Fantastic Mr Fox to be ahead of Moonrise Kingdom on the Twee scale.

It's the one that I had the most trouble getting into. While I enjoyed the always-entertaining Wes Anderson style and off-center performances, i never felt like I cared about what the characters wanted or if they achieved their goals.

And that was, in fact, what happened, as is revealed when Malick and Ward talk. She was a highly placed government agent who had the ability to speak directly to the president who was aware that Hydra was running an important, secretive, and dangerous government program, so Malick had her killed and Ward used it to…

Swoops in? She was on the show for half a season and had a really good arc of going from villain to ally and vacillating constantly the whole time as we tried to figure out what she knew and what she really wanted. It really feels like you are completely dismissing the entire character just because she ends up having…

I'm a little confused as to what would not be a "cheap" way to do it. I mean if they dragged out Coulson's cello playing ex and had her killed, yeah, that would fit the definition, but this wasn't just an interchangeable female - this was a character that the audience actually cared about.
"Revenge" is a real plot…

Though to be fair Jessica Jones does have the first LGBT *relationship* in the MCU.

I'm just not seeing that. They give us a tantalizing glimpse of what could be (Rosalind infiltrating the ATCU for SHIELD) and then snatch it away from us so we get a proxy for what Coulson feels as a woman with whom he shares a genuine connection and all the possible futures that implies is similarly snatched away. I…

I don't even know what show you are watching. That was one of the better episodes of the show, hands down. Of course I'm sad to lose Constance Zimmer and her character, but that actually helped since it made me angry at Ward too.