“An early shot featuring three iconic bridges spanning the Willamette is enough to establish the where of Here And Now as Portland, Oregon, but “Eleven Eleven” firmly sets the scene by cutting to the city’s Old Town sign. Twice.”

I don’t know, I liked it. I thought it was a good start and I can’t wait to see what’s to come.

“I call this meeting of The Man Bun Society to order!”

The three “iconic” bridges of Willemette must be “iconic” like Aiden Pearce’s “iconic” cap is “iconic”.

Reaching for wit and transcendence, the lack of Community Grades leaves the av club mopey and dopey.

Well, we all know that; it’s mostly just a matter of cataloging reasons why now.

Because this site fucking sucks now.

They did have them... then a few weeks ago, they just stopped. No notice, no acknowledgement.

I don’t understand doing individual reviews in addition to a season (of however many episodes) review, particularly when it’s clear the show isn’t very interesting. Indeed, this very site lamented the fact that Altered Carbon was overshadowed by the stupid Cloverfield stunt... but AV Club has also neglected to do…

Yes, I wouldn’t be surprised if, for example, Taika Waititi gets tapped to direct one of the anthology films given the success of Thor: Ragnarok.

I think a lot of the tweaks to the already existing story really worked...little scenes with Varys and Littlefinger or Brienne and the Hound fighting, that weren’t in the books, showed great instincts. Others, like adding in rapes or Braavos and Dorne, were horrible.

I think they just don’t have very good storytelling instincts. When they’re relying on GRRM’s storytelling, they’re in great shape. But when they feel the need to tweak (like adding in a bunch of rapes that weren’t in the books) they show that they don’t know what they’re doing from a storytelling perspective.

That’s funny, the two black showrunners say otherwise:

If this is the only way to get a Salacious Crumb standalone film, then I guess I’m for it.

It seems like they completely gave up on writing anything at their prior level of quality and went all-in on spectacle. And got rewarded for it.

My comment gets a D for being equally uninspired.

So, we’re finally doing “What if Luke and Leia had totally done it before discovering they’re siblings... And then continued to do it anyways?”

I don’t like Sand Snakes. They’re coarse and rough and irritating and they did nothing.

> It’s clear that the enemy is capitalism, but the series frequently stops short of saying so—not only that, but instead of redirecting its ire on the technological development of the stacks. Characters deliver homilies on the evil wrought by the few having so much more than everyone else, then inexplicably pivot to…

So rich people are Cylons. Didn’t we already know this? And I don’t suppose there’s any gay in this sea of sexy sex.