I think Frederica herself is the main connection between them—though she’s not always the main character (I’m sure I’ll find other characters pop up here and there). And I suppose it must be a sign then—I certainly haven’t seen the books come up anywhere else online anytime recently...

I remember the quartet as being two clearly defined pairs, but that might be because I started with Babel Tower, went back for the first two, then WW came out.

Funny—in the English grad department I teach at, we have a free book shelf that I check whenever I have a break, and I just picked up an old paperback of The Virgin in the Garden—knowing nothing about it except that I like what I’ve read of Byatt, and always intended to read more (over the years I’ve read Angels and…

Children being hurt and dogs dying are my triggers. People or cats? Meh. But dogs and small children? Not for me.

This is an issue for me. I can watch films showing graphic murder all day, but if a dog dies, I am psychologically crushed for days.

If, for example, animal violence causes particular stress, there’s a wonderfully comprehensive website called “Does the dog die?” that non-spoilery divulges what sort of violence towards animals a movie might have. That was how I steered clear of “A Dog’s purpose”

I’d say The Lobster was fairly funny. A lot of deadpan absurdity about how couples could only come about through incredibly frivolous, minor similarities. Or how Colin Farrell was dating that wonderfully awful lady who hated everyone and everything and he won her over by ignoring her when she pretended to choke to…

“Characters both major and minor from the first trilogy are present in this new one.”

Ok, here goes. Writing this out makes me want to barf. 

Yeah. I don’t understand why everyone is having such a hard time with Elliot basically saying “whoa, I don’t want to kill a building full of people” when that is a direct callback to season one, where Mr.Robot wanted to blow up the Steel Mountain facility using the gas lines and Elliot didn’t want to/refused to do…

Riverdale is an extraordinarily well made show, I am not referring to the plotting, acting, or scripting (all of which I think are good), but mostly to the cinematography, costuming, and set design, all of which are almost impossibly excellent.

The cinematography of this show is excellent, slow motion at the appropriate time, extensive use of depth of field, no annoying shaky hand held shots. This is great stuff.

I love this insane show. Cheryl is a beautiful nightmare, and I can’t wait to see where the Blossom story goes.

Kevin is now a regular, so hopefully he gets more to do (besides look really attractive next to an entire cast of really attractive people).

Dennis! Where is he this season?!

You know, I really kind of loved this movie. It’s a visual masterpiece. But as I’ve been thinking about it since I saw it on Saturday, some of the premises of the film seem a tad silly. SPOILERS AHEAD!

I would also add the wonderful Gone Home, partly because it’s set in the 90s and it’s about one of the themes in Season 4.

To answer your game question, yes. Emotionally resonant narrative arcs have been a fundamental part of gaming for a looong time now (ever aided by increasing technology limits). At this point in time there are actually entire genre’s specifically focused at doing just that (traditional “gameplay” being a secondary or…

So, this 2049 is a 100% hetero world? And 100% female-body fixated? Seriously???

That was pretty much my reaction too (though perhaps I enjoyed it a little more than you did). I’m kind of surprised to find out it’s the minority view.

Can the AV Club please get a dedicated section for fiction/nonfiction. This review a fortnight thing is kind of lame. Also, you already got like 5000 things that overlap with other Kinja “articles,” so having your own niche thing would be pretty cool.