Absolutely agreed. It was absurdly idyllic and pastoral. Especially Rémi was nothing but a plot device in all of it, just a cardboard cut-out of a boy.

Lucas Dhont is a Belgian, not a Frenchman, and his films are decidedly Belgian as well.

I haven’t watched Girl, but when I watched this at the Ghent Film Festival last year this is pretty much how I felt. It felt so... crude, emotionally. It tackles its subject in the most shallow, repetitive (at one point I thought “If I see one more hockey scene I’m gonna go insane”, followed right away by... another…

Well... Umm... You know... Yarr.

I’ve already seen Skinamarink and lemme tell ya, it either works incredibly well or it falls totally flat. It relies on its audience having a vivid imagination and a visual mind. It lives and dies on that “Is something moving in that corner?” dread some people get because they see shapes in every damn shadow.

“which is that they build it out first to some extent, or if they build it as they go, ensure it’s very consistent and reasoned and so on”

“I say this as a very extensive fantasy reader, note! The majority of stuff is Tolkien-esque worldbuilding-wise these days and it gets very trying.”

“He got out of the Witcher franchise so he could return as Superman”

Gotta protect your own, right? Even Daniels dabbled in that with Prez’s major fuckup. 

There are plenty of episodes of L&O that depict bad cops, cops crossing the line, cops beating up suspects, cops killing someone. But bringing that up could temper his outrage and biting sarcasm.

Exactly, John Doman’s character was fascinating and incredibly well-acted, but was also pretty much the poster boy of corrupt and messed up career cops.

It’s always meant this and has not been meaningless. This is nothing new.

I think John Oliver makes a lot of good points and accurately points out bad shit all the time, but it’s pretty clear that he has a political agenda. Hell, speaking ‘truth to power’, no matter if that power is political, cultural, economical or something else, is a political agenda by itself. Journalism, even the…

Oliver’s segment shows interviews with the show’s actors who have cops walk up to them to thank them for putting them in such a good light and all that. So those cops are using it. And I don’t think Dominic West gets the same pats on the back for the drunken, broken mess that was McNulty. Let alone actors like John…

The Undying Lands are weird. I’m not sure you can just come and go as you please. It might differ between each Age, I’m not sure.

Are we sure he’s not talking about House Of The Dragon instead?

The makeup on Crabfeeder was indeed great, which is why I’m so sad he was so damn underused. Woulda loved more out of that antagonist as an actual antagonist, and not a cool-looking force of nature with generic Essosi (I think) mercs.

Princess Disa doesn’t have a beard! Cowards!

I don’t think we nearly have enough information about how this show is actually constructed, what’s real, what isn’t, who knew what and how these things were all handled behind the screens to draw the conclusions that you’re drawing regarding Nathan's treatment of that young kid.

I disagree. You’re totally right that you can’t get everything right, little things that are unique to the comic medium, but it was absolutely in their ability to not make everything around Dream as dark and serious as he was. Cain and Abel are pretty on point in that regard actually, but even they just look so…