They turned the basic beats of the first season into a formula. That can work, the Godfather movies did it and pulled it off wonderfully for the most part. But when you do that and then execute that formula as poorly as they did you retroactively damage the originator of the formula. It's like following up Godfather…

If season 2 hadn't squandered a lot of the good will of that first season, this would have been a legitimate worry. With the show having had the worst sophomore slump I've ever seen, I don't think the direct comparisons are as worrying now.

You're actually parroting a thoroughly debunked smear peddled by David Brock and the sleazy character assassins on the Hillary for America communications payroll. Snopes goes through why pegging her as "anti-vaccine" is deliberately misleading in some detail. http://www.snopes.com/is-gr…

You might want to do your own research on candidates instead of parroting smears from the Clinton campaign and its surrogates in the MSM.

In addition to that point, I think we should all remember that it's literally impossible to do this.

Hopkins is the one thing about this that is a big question mark for me. I don't know if this means he's tired of phoning it in for big movies that meet his quote and is looking to push himself or if HBO just backed a truck of money into his front yard.

I'm talking about the character on the show, not the real guy.

The Pablo character does seem to have a lingering contempt for people who walk all over the poor, which I like. I think that—and the theme from last season that he could have been a genuine working class hero if the world and his choices on how to navigate hadn't turned him into a monster—would have been more powerful…

There was a run where they played with the semi-realistic idea that a great deal of these mutations would make a person a good candidate for the freak show in a carnival rather than awesome in a fight. On a conceptual level, I'm kind of surprised a corporate publisher would approve that—but I also remember them not…

I just looked this up. Not only were you not exaggerating, you were underselling it. She has scaly skin, controls people through pheromones, and is equipped with web shooters. And she never actually slept with anyone for money, relying on her pheromone powers for money, until Scarlet Witch took those powers away and…

If KFC actually had to compete on a national level with some of the better regional fried chicken franchises, it wouldn't do as well as it does. As you point out, the seasoning really is all it has going for it. And when you factor in the cruelty aspect—they process the chickens while still alive—the fact that the end…

I don't think there exists such a thing as an "unfilmable" book—just unimaginative filmmakers.

Coke is apparently a big thing in the food industry. Most of the people I've met who worked as servers or cooks have at least experimented with coke.

Given he seems OK with people treating family members as potential ingredients, not looking at his groceries is probably the best course.

He and the little boy are the emotional center of that movie. I had heard good things about the movie and the director/co-riter drew my interest and I actually liked liked the original as a kid—but I was just not expecting the movie to be that good. I've rarely had my expectations completely exceeded like that in a…

They're married . . .

I kind of like the soft reboot approach to most of the recastings. It allows the series to adjust and innovate, in theory if not always practice. A series nearly thirty films long with a firm sense of continuity would just become alienating.

I think it works for this version of the character, who is basically supposed to be a full-blown psychopath.

If you think that's bad, you really don't want to ask questions about the villain's motivation.

And that's not even factoring in that, given each Bond movie is basically a feature-length commercial for luxury market items, the profit margins are probably insanely wider than most similar movies.