Eh, you could say the same about Wall Street. It's not like many people are going to watch a movie of this subject matter that was made for a thousand bucks with a cast of nobodies.

Even if the movie is little more than a slightly smug Financial Meltdown 101 class, I can't help but feel glad a major production is at least trying to fill the masses in on it. From what I've read, McKay is sincere in his anger over the crisis.

You can, but it's still arguably symptomatic of atheism being a taboo in US movies and TV shows. Some would even say Rust Cohle didn't stick the landing on that front.

I've honestly never seen anyone try to peg Gone Girl as literary fiction. But I think it's certainly a more effective book
than, say, The Goldfinch. And in 50 years people will only remember the former (if either).

An absorbing episode. Noah's conflict about Great Men in therapy was more interesting (or at least better expressed) than his usual neuroses. All husbands have probably ruminated on that at one point or another.

It really is one step forward, two steps back with this show. The review is correct: after the previous episode this was *not* the time to (yet again) put the brakes on and proves the season simply doesn't have enough plot to sustain itself.

Saving myself up for a binge of this when it's finished. I wouldn't have bothered as I could take or leave the first season, but noticing the reviews and think-pieces around here convinced me to take the plunge a second time.

Thought for sure this would be a hot mess, but reviews have been very good so far.

Festival reviews were brutal, for what it's worth.

In terms of being a prestige drama, the show jumped the shark halfway through season 1. Now it's just a slick, occasionally insightful soap-opera that doesn't even pay lip service to exploring its own title. This year has been a lot more enjoyable for embracing its trashiness, and I think most still watching are ok…

Didn't mind the episode, but the show's continued attempts to portray Noah as a writer of his generation (imagined or not) still feel excruciating.

Agreed. This year's midseason lull gave me season 3 flashbacks.

Much better, under the proviso that Dar and co. aren't dumb enough to fall for Allison's obvious lie.

But… this exact trailer has been out for months already? https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Homme crying really hit me. Over the years he's fostered a personality of being such detached, sardonic dude that seeing him that vulnerable is quite a shock.

Ignoring what could have been with its original director, the film fits neatly into the 'ok time in the theater but you forget about it half an hour later' mold. Marvel make too many of those movies to deserve the adulation they get in some quarters (IMO), but I'm unreservedly looking forward to Civil War.

Ah yes, Ant-Man. That was a thing.

While I'll never quite understand the AV Club circle-jerk that accompanies every Marvel product, Winter Soldier was a really good blockbuster and I'm relieved to see this is a true sequel to that and not 'Avengers 2.5'.

The Internet's very specific running gag of its love for bacon has always reminded me of an out of touch uncle trying to sound cool. I like the stuff, but I don't get the need to go on about it.

I don't understand: you're agreeing with me.