I understand your anger at this suggestion, but I stand by it. I've come to believe binge culture is more bad than good for the art of longform storytelling, and Stranger Things and Luke Cage are prime examples of this. The plot rushes forward at the cost of well-thought-out character actions, and we're so desperate…

He's on the money with that show, though. It's the downside of binge culture - when viewers aren't forced to wait a week and mull over the episode they just watched it's a license for storytellers to get lazy. Same thing happens with Marvel's shows.

I wouldn't worry about it - I think the broad consensus on Stranger Things is that it's more 'effective' than actually good. Like, say, The Force Awakens.

Feel like Game of Thrones is too high. There was A LOT of wheel spinning until the last third. (I know that's business as usual for the show, but it was particularly egregious this year.)

"I see selfish people."

But… she's demonstrably right to be paranoid about Cole and Alison given what happened at the end of each segment.

I said last week that both Noah and Alison are bad people, but at this point Noah has some unintentional comedy value and the writers are generally unflinching in portraying his douchiness. With Alison I get the impression they still think the audience should root for her because…. reasons??

Cole and Alison's kiss was a 'cheer-worthy' moment? Have I been watching a different show for the last three years?

I think the problem was that up until the airport scene, the movie had already been dead serious. Civilans were accidentally killed by Cap, the UN was attacked… shit was already real!

The list isn't a particularly useful metric. DiCaprio, for instance, is in the top ten even though he's pretty much the last genuinely bankable star left — it just happens that he gets massive paychecks because everyone knows he's bankable and that hurts his dollar to pay ratio. His last 5 movies have all made very…

Depends how literal you get: the movie can very easily be interpreted as alcoholism being the subtext of Jack's behaviour. Kubrick was never exactly one to put his themes on the surface.

Fair warning on Room 237: its whole point is that some fans go nuts and create entire theories out of absolutely nothing. So as an insight into what the movie's 'really about', it's a mixed bag by design.

I think with Kubrick's story you could argue there is an emotional journey — it's just not Jack's. It's about Wendy and Danny finally seeing their husband/father for who he is, once and for all.

There's a compelling theory (to do with The Shining, you don't say?!) that King hates the Kubrick version because it actually *does* deal with alcoholism, but portrays Torrance - King's proxy - as irredeemable. Unlike the book, he surrenders completely to his demonic urges and dies a pathetic, frozen figure in the…

"A lot of actors from the United Kingdom lose a certain musicality in their voices when they try on an American accent."

Perry said the pilot was genuinely great, but that the show basically didn't work at all after that.

West is pretty annoying, in fairness. The Guardian has some great feminist writers, but her 'being obese is great' columns go way beyond calling out body-shaming.

Gotta say, not making me feel any better.

I think there's an interesting conversation to have about lust being exciting precisely because it's divorced from morality, but I'm not sure a scene that goes overboard skewing Generation Snowflake is the best vehicle for it.

As long as you're not an animal he likes to hunt to feel closer to God!