Especially because without these narrative devices as used in the book, it seems like the killer would be immediately obvious??

Well I think the movie reviewer here even admits that conceptually, the story is meaty. But the execution in the book is terrible, and it sounds like the same goes for the movie. When I read the book there were so many passages that made me think, "in the hands of a better author, this could have been something!" But…

Cameron often frustrates the hell out of me. But it's very AV Club to jump on one character's side and say one or the other is "dead wrong"; they both have valid points! Like others down in the thread have pointed out, there was a point of compromise between "tomorrow" and "2 years from now" and Donna and Cam should…

Looks like those clowns in congress did it again! What a bunch of clowns. #first!

Yeaaah I read the script and it was the worst thing I ever saw with my own two eyes, and it sounds like the movie stayed pretty accurate to what I read so… Hard pass.

You almost made me miss Dexter just for this joke. (Almost.)

"What was your favorite scene in zootopia? Was it the one where a couple of shady characters in a makeshift lab are making a dangerous chemical out of blue material? Then have we got a show for you!" -Netflix marketing analyst

Do I think the "villains are demons" reading of the movie improves its message vastly/makes more sense plot-wise? Absolutely.
Did Shyamalan intend the villains to be understood as demons by the audience? Nope. Those suckers are 100% without a doubt supposed to be aliens. Signs is his version of War of the Worlds.

Was Renfield shown to have been struggling with mental illness of his own? Seems I also need a rewatch!
And we're definitely seeing that flipside you speak of in Vanessa's sessions with Seward!

Yes Drac found Renfield after Vanessa's sessions had already started, explicitly to make a minion out of him for his own Vanessa-spying purposes. I think that scene was in the first episode? (Lyle is a perfect angel of course.)

Not as far as I can recall. The only reference being made to anything of the sort was in Winter Solider, when Nick Fury says Stark provided some "consultation" on the helicarriers. But he fought to keep his suits out of the government's hands.

"Stark the arms dealer" see this is why your analogy doesn't work. That Stark hates/regrets what he used to do, and now uses his power to stop a global arms race is literally the main plot point of all 3 of his standalone movies. Penelope's gun control analogy is therefore much closer to a "correct" analogy, if there…

That was the most 30 Rock exchange I've ever heard on this show.

Ah the gas leak year…

Gretchen's cult makeup was PERFECT, they really managed to blur the line between "heavy makeup" and "What's wrong with this person?".

As you say, this is definitely something HHM won't want to get mixed up in; we've seen all season that their image maintenance is deeply important to them. We'll have to wait to find out how that weighs against their retention of Chuck, which they certainly do at a cost. PLUS, I don't know how happy Howard will be…