As one of the original viewers I definitely think it was because the pacing was all wrong for week-to-week. "Muddy" is a great way to describe it. Also, I had rewatched S1 concurrently, and there's no doubt about it, S1 was the much stronger season.

Now that's shade. I love it when the Times bares its New York sass every so often.

Lord knows I love judging people and things (I know I know, The A.V. Club) but there's a recent, annoying trend on youtube to have an entire industry and online presence based just on snappy critiques of media with fast cuts. Also Cinema Sins loves to take individual scenes out of context (like many other commenters…

No, it's to get the teenaged boy to look at their palms in company, thereby causing much mirth at the family gathering because it's an admission that boy is masturbating. Because teenaged boys get embarrassed by everything.

The problem is that there are a lot of people like my uncle, and it's not just that they're stupid but that they're not exposed to a lot of the "variety of life". Oh, and they vote. That's why I don't let Hollywood completely off the hook with the whole "we are just giving the customers what they want" line.

I concede your technical point, but I did say "plus-sized in comparison to other actresses". I wasn't talking about a specific clothing size, just a more colloquial use of the term. Anyway, I agree about Hollywood standards being skewed in case there was any misunderstanding.

To be fair, she is both average (or maybe even below average by now in the US) and has a few extra pounds. She would also be considered plus-sized in comparison to other actresses, which, make of that what you will. It's not really a contradiction in terms.

At some point you do have to wonder though— what is the divide between "Hollywood is merely giving people what they want" and "popular media influences public opinion"? I'd say it's a self-reinforcing cycle.

I'm onboard just to see which issue they pick to drag out for an entire season.

So I watched this series.

Lol don't worry mom, I've "educated myself". Some objections have more of a leg to stand on than others, but from seeing your other posts you're pretty set in your ways, so I'm not gonna engage. Bye!

And they chose to leave in the rape, for the same reason they chose to leave in the violence. It builds the fictional world.

How so? There are historical elements and then there are added fictional elements. What's the contradiction?

According to the latest Frommer's Guide to NYC, all the coolest disaffected youngsters hang out within a two-block radius in Bushwick.

Actually I found that part of the book kind of funny, because it's a very Indian perspective on religion: the idea that these distinct, heterogeneous concepts can be blended together into a vague amalgam. I thought it was a cute nod to India's melting pot culture.

Do you have any particular recommendations for Krzhizhanovsky? I have the opportunity to borrow a collection called Memories of the future.

He probably has some 'radical tumblr' definition of what a feminist is, and then will cite No True Scotsman if you talk about Malala Yousafzai. Just trying to get ahead of the trainwreck.

I feel like the people who make these accusations forget that GRRM's source material is based pretty directly on medieval life. Yes, GoT can get pretty rapey and gross, but guess what— much of human history was unfortunately even more rapey. GoT is fiction, but based on the very real history of brutal female…

I think most of the people who hate Desi get what kind of character he's supposed to be. They've never really shown a sympathetic side of him on the show. The point is that his character is fun to hate.

I'm gonna go ahead and say that his father dying wasn't a lie, but his whole "parting ways with his app company" was. Maybe the break-up and his father dying probably set his whole drug habit in motion and he was kicked out of his company, went on a downward spiral, etc.