The Looper ending. I like it.

The only way this pays off well is if THIS is the Barry that makes Thawne obsessed with ruining Barry for the rest of time. But even that set up is ruined by the pacing/poor writing/bad thinking that has dominated the last season and a half of the show.

The main storyline was emotionally resonant on very elemental levels of human psychology and well-paced. Was it nearly flawless on the level of Deadwood's second season or Breaking Bad's last half? No. But most everything else it offers compelling competition.

I'm officially neither regretting quitting this show halfway through season 2 nor planning to ever pick it back up.

Yeah, when Jesse tries to have Saul give Kaylee money after correctly assuming Walt killed Mike, Saul points out the DEA got both stashes of Kaylee money. The one Gus se up and he one Mike built by working with Walt against his better judgment.

I'd say the vast improvement between Sicario and Hell or High Water suggests he's a writer to watch already. Sicario, to me, felt like what would happen if you had Zach Snyder tackle that material and loaned him 50 IQ points and a bit of sexual maturity. Hell or High Water had a much lighter touch and trusted the…

In fairness, the actual villain in Iron Man turns out to be an elderly white male industrialist.

Outside of inconsistent characterization of the little girl—a gag is built around her not knowing what "ad nauseam" means but they also go out of their way to point out she is basically doing graduate school level work in mathematics, which sort of requires advanced reading skills, too—and the plot contrivances of…

I also haven't read the book but it's my understanding it's not THAT different from the movie. There is a hilarious, scathing review on Goodreads that renames the two main characters Batshit and Doormat.

I saw this and agree with the people on here who think the review is way too harsh. I was put in a program for gifted children and I think the film moslyt gets the subject at its emotional core—the often conflicting desires of wanting to challenge yourself AND participate in society and challenges society places in…

Prates are to blame for its cancelation. NBC was OK with low ratings due to the low cost of the show and the kind of audience Hannibal managed to find was actually attractive to advertisers. But it wasn't OK with the super low season 3 ratings the show got because some people—for some reason—decided to pirate the show…

If they do bring him back, I think the DEA years/backstory would be the way to go. It's the one place you could give him a character arc that doesn't tread on, directly compete with, or threaten to cheapen his arc in the original season.

Speaking of the season 1 characters, anyone else get a feeling they're going to give McConaughey his wish and revisit them in season 3? They've brought Milch on as showrunner even though they're trying to downplay that in public, he's hurting for money, HBO seems intent on reviving the franchise, and McConaughey has…

If you wanted to keep Banks around, you could run for years covering the timeline of Breaking Bad's first two seasons from his perspective—though I suspect that may be where his plotlines go in the later seasons of this show.

Or they could have been aiming to relocate before he was murdered. Either to directly get away from the corruption and other problems in PA or just one of those weird, unhappy coincidences in life.

Isn't the whole point of the situational comedy to have relatively static characters with clearly defined comedic functions that you make fresh from week to week by giving their antics a slightly different context.

The whole point of his character was he was miserable in the present and desperately clinging to the past. A living, breathng bridge between the past and present is going to be a major source of resentment for someone like that, regardless of whether she's as hot as a young Katy Sagal dressed up like a truck stop…

I'll grant it wasn't as extreme as Iron Man 2's blatant setups. But let's just go over the plot a little.

I'd blame Marvel for how that turned out. Like Iron Man 2, it was very obvious the studio had a heavy hand in the production and basically mandated the thing be a series of trailers for upcoming movies first and an actual movie a very distant second. It may as well have been called Avengers: Age of Corporate Synergy.

The show in question is apparently True Detective, which speaks fucking volumes about how HBO sees that show.