Let's also not forget she put in a damn good performance in "Girl, Interrupted"—-though her death in that movie now takes on an even more disturbing tone.

I will never not be angry about True Blood's treatment of Tara. For most of its run, actually.

Just started watching the pilot because of the AVClub. Has no one yet commented on how awesome the theme song is? Because damn, that's like some Buffy-level great late 90s/early 00's shit right there.

Here's something that another commenter may have already posited (I haven't read all of the comments): is it possible that Wayne might not actually be magic at all, but is just genuinely(?) presenting himself as someone willing to actually listen to people's pain and provide them with (albeit fleeting) physical and…

Unsure if his pronunciation was intended as sarcasm over the whole GIF with a g sound vs GIF with a j sound pronunciation debate, but yeah, "jifes" or whatever the fuck he's saying is not a good solution or middleground.

This is one of my favorite films. It's also worth mentioning that Marguerite Duras's screenplay (which was published on its own after the film's release) also reads like the best kind of graphic novel dialogue: sparse, impressionistic, and poetic.

What the fuck does it even mean to say that dying in San Francisco is "pretty cliché"?

I'm pretty sure the Cybertek "Incentives" program was Garrett's creepy code for kidnapping people's loved ones in order to make them work for him. Ace was Mike's "incentive," all of the people being held in cells that Skye freed were other people's "incentives," etc.