Banks’ Goddess

Did I stutter? Moving away from a straight adaptation of the book =/= going “off the rails.” Some might argue that it’s actually a good thing.

If that’s the case, then colour me corrected. Maybe it was just a collaboration that went south, or maybe Gaiman should have known better who he was getting involved with if he wanted it done a certain way. But everything I’ve read suggests that Gaiman tried to spearhead an adaptation at HBO until that fell apart…

Now you’re just assuming things. There is nothing in the article or in the actual first season of the show to suggest it was heading “totally off the rails” for season two. What might have worked for the story in the book might not have worked for the TV show. Obviously Fuller has his own style and way of storytelling…

I’m not trying to say Gaiman shouldn’t have an opinion on it, or that his opinion is unimportant, but just because he created the source material, doesn’t mean that this TV adaptation is his project. It isn’t. It was Fuller and Green’s project. Once you create something and put it out into the world and sell the…

You can trust Gaiman all you want, but it’s an adaptation. As far as I’m concerned, Gaiman’s lucky to have even been involved in what is essentially a separate work of art, driven by another artist’s interpretation and vision, in a medium vastly different from the one it’s being adapted from. And I’m someone who loved…

Yes, I love when the show leans into its genre elements! Those nightmare sequences were really stunning.

I screamed when I heard the theme from Rosemary’s Baby at the end, thinking we’d get to see Sabrina already (Aguirre-Sacasa has always compared Chilling Adventures to RB). Then Grundy was murdered! Even better!

The Wire. I think I got halfway through season 2 without really connecting to the show. It was well-made, well-acted, well-written, and unlike other shows I had seen, but for whatever reason the episodes just kind of washed over me. I intended to finish it, but for various reasons it ended up on the back-burner until…

How is this spam account out of the greys while I’m still stuck in a perpetual state of pending approval?

That song is so good live that I’m always a little disappointed listening to the album version.

If Riverdale introduces Sabrina this season, and then gives her her own supernatural spin-off, I may finally sign over my soul to the CW.

Lights Out was also pretty good and did some fun things with its premise.

“somehow” = Mike Flanagan

Did anyone else read the Edge Chronicles books by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell? Those books ignited my imagination like no other when I was a kid.

Yes! I agree. I’m still stubbornly holding onto hope.

RIP Sweet / Vicious

I’d like to keep Bronn as my pet.

Yes! Mad Men is what immediately came to mind for me when I read the question. And I love how the show just as subtly tracks the social and structural changes taking place throughout the ‘60s. How the characters interact with that context—how they are shaped by it and vice versa—is one of my favourite things about Mad…

Maybe this is just me, but I liked having a separate section for Newswires on the home page that only showed the headlines. That way, I could see all the important pop culture things going on in a day with just a glance or two, and then click through for details if something was of particular interest (though more…