It also didn't help that the whole Chilton twist felt like a very last-minute switcheroo, with the previous episodes setting up Will's simmering resentment toward Freddie Lounds that never goes anywhere.

Aw, Black Phillip is the scariest part!

Laverne Cox for Clarice Starling!

You're right. In my opinion the show degenerated substantially over its run, so that by the second half of season 3 it was basically character porn — just one melodramatic excuse after another for us to luxuriate in how much we loved the characters and all the messed-up ways they loved each other, rather than an…

There were a number of things about that scene that the subsequent season sort of wussed out on (such as the notion that Jaqen and the Waif were just interchangeable personas used by random Faceless Men), but I always assumed Arya saw her own face only because the faces' "unauthorized user" poison was causing her to…

I don't know what would be funnier — if you're so stupid that you actually think this is true, or if you're so delusional that you think anyone outside your moronic circle-jerk falls for your "an insane lie repeated becomes the truth!" meme-magic bullshit.

The biggest problem for me is that he completely misunderstands the character of Ozymandias, portraying him as if he's a creepily unwholesome supervillain who's only pretending to be a superhero, when the point is supposed to be that he's the purest and most righteous superhero of them all — which is exactly why he…

So, wait, what even is the premise here? Are the Munsters the hipsters, moving in and freaking out their square neighbors? Are they the original residents, who don't know how to adapt to the new hipster transplants? Are they just themselves moving in with the hipsters, and everyone is freaking everyone out? None of…

The AV Club has a program to employ headline writers of promise but without the necessary means for a necessary means for a higher education.

The Sweet Hereafter is a movie that makes me feel like an absolute crazy person, because although it is rightfully praised for being a "haunting, heart-wrenching drama," for me it's nearly ruined by a gargantuan and inexplicable writing misstep that apparently not a single other person even noticed, let alone had…

Yeah, my main issue with Bardem is that he seems a bit too old and too rugged to play Arnaz in his I Love Lucy days. I'm also not sure he sings at all.

I feel like Martindale and Dowd would be awesome if they were just playing Ethel Mertz, but I'm not sure they'd be right for Vivian Vance. Vance needs to be someone who could almost be a glamorous leading lady, and resents having to play a frumpy sidekick instead.

"The search for a Desi Arnaz, Ball’s husband on and off camera (for a while), continues . . ."

Well, she is married to a man named "Benioff," which almost seems like it could be suggestive, if only "to benny" meant something interesting.

I actually thought Caprica came out of the gate very, very strong, and I really appreciated the efforts to flesh out the different cultures of Twelve Colonies. But then they kept constantly rethinking and retooling everything, and they ended up with a huge mess. (Which is ironic, because as I understand it, the cuts…

Okay, that does make sense. You could even argue that Cersei was wary of stringing Nestoris along more than she had to, so she picked the shortest span of time she'd need to demonstrate that the money was forthcoming — potentially just until the Lannister army was in sight of Highgarden and trustworthy sources could…

That's a good point about Benioff; I'd forgotten that he wrote The 25th Hour. And he and Weiss are both smart, well-educated guys, which is why I gave the writing on Game of Thrones the benefit of the doubt for so many years, before it became clear to me that the problem was less "Adapting complex source material is…

I think some of it is knee-jerk criticism, but I also think there's legitimate concern about the guys at the top, regardless of who their cowriters are. Let's just say there's strong precedent for wondering whether the Game of Thrones showrunners are capable of doing right by their collaborators, or whether they'll…

I don't see an inevitable connection between "is a mean little girl who hurts her little brother out of spite" and "is a straight-up murderer." In fact, the reason I'm inclined to reject the "Cersei killed Melara" interpretation is because it does too easily connect the two. I don't want Cersei's development as a…

I always hated the "little girl down the well" plot point from Feast for Crows, but my sense wasn't that Cersei pushed her down, because that would make her too much of a one-dimensional villain even by book!Cersei standards. I figured that Melara just fell down a well, and Cersei's crime was leaving her to die…