Wow—I didn’t know that was in the comics too. It didn’t work in the series, which was a show I generally thought worked well.

This...there’s definitely some rubbernecking when an “incendiary” profile comes out, but really, the audience should engage with the work and the profile, but here, from a fan, there’s none of that?

Ah. I probably don’t make it to the end of most of these slideshows.

Is there anything on the seventh slide even? I was clicking and it ended and I thought something didn’t load...

Just FYI, Kara Swisher is a she.

Ah, I thought of Mad Max and am probably in that loud minority—I haven’t played Days Gone.

It’s looked fine if uninspired, but for me never just not quite affordable enough to take the plunge with other games out there. Even on sale though, the context is do I go for an okay AAA game or an inspired indy? It must suck to spend years on a project like this though.

Do you like it? Do the chapters feel satisfying?

Just piped in to say, I mostly agree, though I think a critique of the show should include how effective (or ineffective) it was at communicating what you’re saying. I think the last seasons were rushed (though honestly, I prefer that to usual prestige tv pacing), but given the general reaction to the final seasons,…

The last season was rushed.

I caught it on Hulu and thought maybe it might continue, but it looks like it’s officially done in two. It’s an interesting comparison to Yellowstone, not just for genre and all that, but the fact that The Son was set up to tell it’s story in two time periods, though it’s not contemporary. Kind of what Yellowstone and …

I haven’t read the book either—specifically, she was reacting to critiques of the movie for focusing on the plight of just poor whites, and she said their stories are untold and deserve a focus. She’s not saying other stories shouldn’t be told, and I don’t want to imply that. And I agree with her to that extent, but I…

I commented on the tropes of storytelling and the dominant mode of the genre, not history—neither noble or savage. The noble confederate is a trope—True Grit, The Searchers, down the line through it’s most popular forms and it’s pretty recent that “naw, screw the Confederacy” is how Westerns may go, most prominently…

Despite the pluses of Sheridan’s work, this romantic machismo is present in all his work, and the only swerve beyond the norm for the genre seems to be the addition of violence and the barest acknowledgment of other povs...even when his best work contains them their kind of just nods—Hell and High Water (Indian…

Netflix definitely changed things. I still enjoyed it, but I thought Longmire got less rounded as it went and the weakest choice was pairing him with Moretti romantically.

There’s a possible good story about the public imagination around policing and crime, but maybe not a good one every one of those shows.

Judging by the trailer, a mission level like “No Russian” would be a sophisticated in the game.

Yeah, “commentary” isn’t the best word since what I want is the same, just having those issues and the friction appear in these narratives. The context of a review praising this show’s “unflinching” depiction of such a mythologized period set me up and I don’t have better phrasing. Hardship in the period is already myt…

Between the headline and the review, I guess I expected more social commentary or something? More regarding the winning of the west being won over people—and what kind of people, and all kinds of people were doing the winning? I do like Taylor Sheridan (Hell and High Water ++, some of the rest I appreciate), but his…

That’s absolutely a huge plus. There’s enough quality of life benefits that the lack of a new library—the most compelling difference between video game consoles and other electronics—that a PS5 was still worth it for me as a day to day thing. If it’s in one’s budget, it’s like picking out a new phone. Supply chain…