I agree with your point about the "family values" in Coen Bros. films, but it was something I only really noticed in the Fargo TV show, where you have this weirdly reactionary notion of the good white police officer family being the bastions of decency, honesty, goodness and civilisation while all the antagonists are…

I know this is going to be a controversial opinion but god, Todd on Bojack Horseman. He's not funny. He's just not funny. His little sub-plots are never funny. I feel like everything about the joke-telling on that show can be summed up in Todd's character. Someone once commented on an episode that it felt like every…

Great movie but the review inevitably undersells it a bit since so much of its impact is based on its context in Romanian history. I think the film's great success is in fact due to the part that it isn't really just some vaguely universal reflection on how oppressions have been carried over in the present, but an…

I've only seen A Field in England of Wheatley's works, and I'm excited for this but a bit tentative as well. There's a lot of talk about how he tends to value style over substance in his movies and though I enjoyed England, I totally understood why that movie basically became literary/visual reference fodder in every…

I didn't watch all that much TV this year and was slightly disappointed by a few shows I otherwise enjoyed.

Well, two weeks ago I expressed the fear that while Hawley could craft a good story he couldn't make a climax worth a damn. I feel slightly vindicated in that prediction: this was the definition of a merely competent finale for me.

Frankly, by this point I'm ready to give up on the whole show. The sheer stupidity and incompetence involved in everything Jessica has done dealing with Kilgrave pretty much makes me apathetic to whether she'll free Hope or not.

This is the most infuriating thing about the show for me.

To be fair to the show, this season has been a massive improvement in plot holes over the first one, which rather quickly had a story that logically should not have occurred at all beginning with the episode Lester smuggles himself out of the hospital.

I think short-changing the characters a little however is an absolutely worthy sacrifice for actually having, y'know, a more focused and juicier plot this time around. Say what you want about Lester and Malvo as characters in season 1, but half that season essentially fizzled out or amounted to nothing plot-wise,…

Loving the season so far but is anyone else a little uncomfortable given Hawley's track record last season that a lot of plot threads here are going to anticlimactically fizzle out into nothing?