"Totally mind-bending" is a great way to describe what's it like seeing swastikas spray-painted on the sides of buildings in St. Petersburg, and thinking, "Your grandparents went through 900 days of starvtion to make sure that would never happen."

No, quite the opposite. Neo-Nazism is a big issue in Russia. Nothing is more bizarre than talking to racist Russian skinheads who in one sentence talk about the glory days of their grandparents fighting in WW2, and then in the next talk about how all the Nazis had it right and liberals, Jews, and other races are…

Отлично. А сейчас, начинается вторая фаза нашего злого плана…

"…connect the dots between hieroglyphics and emojis…"

Whenever anyone does that, it's fake news.

Fear of homosexuality and miscegenation seems to drive like 80% of US social history during the time.

From my experiences in NYC, you can ignore the justification in the middle. It can just be:

"Ever since I ditched the empty carbs and high fat of pizza, and started eating more expired vegetables and lean meats, I've had so much more energy during the day. I feel confident enough to take on a whole garbage bag worth of discarded Blue Apron meals, and I've got the strength to back it up. Follow my 12-step…

Whoa, hey, that rat has upgraded! In that bag is probably several old vegetables, with three or four times the nutritional value of a pizza slice!

Season 4 felt like one of those books where an ambitious author gets bogged down constructing non-linear storylines, jumping between viewpoint characters, and fixing focus on plot points that end up not being that interesting.

He was the kind of believable asshole who was reacting badly to the messed-up environment he grew up in. Sometimes he'd do some of the same bullshit his own parents did because he didn't know any better, and then sometimes he'd swing waaay out in the other direction in an attempt to avoid the same mistakes.

Season 4 struck me an audacious ​attempt to tell a long-form, interconnected story on TV, like filming a novel.

Upvote for "snob mobs".

What this shows me is that instead of a troubled Star Trek show, we could be getting an excellent one about Dune.

I may have spent as many hours in EU1 and EU2 with the game paused, just exploring the map, as I did actually playing the games. Absolutely relaxing.

Somewhere, both the DC and the James Bond franchises forgot that enjoying the nonsense "tongue-in-cheek" is different from "rolling your eyes" at the nonsense and trying to ignore it's there.

One friend said it was their least favorite episode of the entire series, and some of the comments on the old reviews here concur. I'm closer to your view: "SWOOP ME!" made me laugh pretty hard.

The Washington Post article links to this 1982 interview with Jim Davis that is just fantastically hostile. God bless the early 1980s.

While your top two are impeccable, my personal vote is to put John Wick at number 3, then put Edge of Tomorrow and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol above Snowpiercer.

A few days after I moved back to DC, I went to Landmark out of curiosity.