Hear, hear. "I don't like or trust you at all or have any reason to believe you or anyone else can resurrect the dead, but couldja maybe try resurrecting this one guy I barely know?" I can only assume that GRRM's original plan was something more coherent; my theory was always that Lady Stoneheart would ultimately get…

In the original short story, it's clearly the latter. The paw was enchanted by a fakir who "wanted to show that fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow." Which is sorta cheating, now that I think about it — like trying to show that marijuana is dangerous by passing…

To my mind, the third season corrects every single thing that was wrong with season 2. But my primary problem wasn't with season 2's artsy-fartsyness but with the faux-edgy family drama stuff that carried over from season 1, and the messianic nonsense with Kevin that threatened to turn the series into a morass of…

The Leftovers did get one nomination, for Ann Dowd's guest appearance in "The Most Powerful Man in the World (And His Identical Twin Brother)." So it was at least eligible up through its second-to-last episode.

Yep. The bullshittiness of it is what turned me off the whole thing after a couple seasons. The writers were always leaning on an endless parade of conspiratorial guards and dumb urban legends like poisoning someone by feeding him glass.

No, she'll sit down to a game of poker with Robb Stark and Steve Crosetti.

Oh, I know it's standard practice; I work in publishing. But that's exactly my point — there is a standard procedure that a manuscript goes through before it's considered "accepted for publication," and per Milo's own account, his manuscript had not yet completed that process. His suit may go on and on about how…

Yep, and ironically, by being campy and fun on a show that all too often took itself way too seriously, he was also one of the few players who successfully put across the more serious themes of the series as well.

Back when S&S first canceled publication, I wondered whether they'd be on the hook for some amount of money, but looking over the full complaint now, it seems pretty clear (as clear as any legal matter can be to a non-lawyer) that Milo doesn't really have a case. His suit goes on and on about how the publisher kept…

"She has presumably seen the show since then, and it’s starting to look like Murphy probably should’ve tried reaching out to her."

Yeah, I think a couple of the other kids are still around, too — Margot Merrill and Cathy Crawford.

I remember the writers talking back in the day about how the original plan was for the cases to be about 50 percent paranormal and 50 percent hoaxes, but everyone found the paranormal stories so much more interesting that they ended up making nearly every case the real deal.

Unfortunately, it isn't. It's basically the exact movie you'd expect from the premise "Aubrey Plaza plays a crazy Instagram stalker," and nothing more. You got your likeably off-putting character work, your predictably escalating plot, and your inessential message about how social media is bad because it makes us all…

Well, on the one hand, I did rewatch season 2 on Blu-ray, so I have recently refreshed my recollection. On the other, I have a freakish sponge memory for pop culture, such that I sometimes get song lyrics stuck in my head from episodes of Muppet Babies that I haven't seen since I was nine. Either way, there's…

It's been years since I read the graphic novel, but my interpretation was always a bit more optimistic than that — that Evey would ensure that the revolution doesn't just end with anarchy and murder. Hence the mirrored sequences that bookend the story: V saving a girl from the police and training her to help him bring…

Yep, was just going to post something along these lines. BCS's live ratings are rarely all that good, but its Live +7 ratings currently show the biggest gains among cable series, sometimes doubling or even tripling its live numbers and coming within striking distance of the highest-rated cable shows.

Ha, that's so clearly what the line should've been that for years I misremembered it that way, and my main reaction to the changed version was your "ruins the internal rhyme scheme" objection.

I'd argue that the original graphic novel is less a story with no heroes than a story in which the three main characters are only heroic in tandem — V's maniac commitment to liberty is necessary to overthrow the fascist order, but he doesn't know how to do anything but destroy, so he must ultimately be supplanted by…

Or, alternately, you have a season where Selina attempts to break the logjam and get the House to elect her president, but in typical Selina fashion, she accidentally succeeds at getting them to elect blustery "pro-Caucasian caucus" asshole O'Brien president instead — bringing the series more in line with the Trump…

What I wish is that he'd show a little more self-awareness and empathy in the midst of his (IMO understandable) horror and outrage. He's got this "Clearly my centrist perspective is the one true way, and anyone who disagrees is a monster!" pose, but it's not like his own writing has always demonstrated a rock-solid…