The first five episodes of the first season were too turgid to be exploitative.

Rabbits on the Run. I'd suggest dipping your toe with 'Dear California' at the poppier end and 'The Marching Line' at the unhurried one.

No problem. I both take requests and crave validation.
I've been listening to Long Division on repeat since I wrote that comment. That song is as subtle as getting swung around by the hair gets.

Y'know, you're right, but I had House of Lies on in the background last night and there was a scene between Bell and Cheadle where (spoilers) she was confronting him about his attempt to force her out of the company and it was so good, it was almost enough to submerge the rest of the surrounding awfulness.

No, yeah, I understand that's what people expected to see but I don't feel their frustrated expectations should be tended to. That arc is just another iteration of the "brutalised victim takes cathartic revenge" convention that characterises pulp writing but never manifests in higher quality writing because it's…

I never watched either the Mindy Project or Happy Endings consistently but I preferred the joke writing and performances on the Mindy Project. Happy Ending was way too comfortable using Casey Wilson saying "Not so much" as a punchline.

I think the read manifests in several, non-specific ways all of which connect the artifice of the programme with its claim to be about real life, which is enough to dissipate any buzz one might get about seeing the unvarnished truth. I don't think people are thinking "producer X decided to move stage Y earlier to…

It's not even a genre. One end of its spectrum is identical to quizzes and game shows and the other end its identical to fly-on-the-wall documentaries. There's no sense in a show like the delightful and mannerly Great British Bake Off being described as inherently awful just because it has a slightly different format…

There's a gulf between "unimpeachable documentary to serve as the anthropological record of our time" and " reality television derives frisson from not being (entirely) fictive". The audience buy-in doesn't need to be all or nothing and people are pretty good at reading when something seems incredible in context.

Madonna is my imagination's default setting for desperately refashioning oneself to match trends. I suspect she doesn't actually exist if someone isn't looking at her.

"Some interchangeable female unit"?

I know both the books and television series get by on (impeccably constructed) schlocky plot and character development and so when people piled on the Sansa season 5 storyline, I thought "well, it's people upset that the breadcrumbs that were laid didn't end in a gingerbread house", which is a variety of "fair enough".

Sorry, mateiyu, I don't follow. Can you elaborate?

What's "good reason" though? A choice in adaptation that is successful, as opposed to one that is "excessive" or whatever category of failure you want to describe it with. So, the change lives or dies according to the value it provides the adaptation, within the context of the adaptation, rather than the relationship…

They make money, one can only conjecture. As other-things-subsidisers go, they're top ten percent. Amy Schumer says 'derp' on the other hand…

Then the argument should be "that was excessive the end." Whether it was present in the books or not doesn't make a difference.

Medrawt, you're about perfectly right, especially regarding the degree Ramsay and Sansa's relationship should have been ruled by politics (I'd query how much Theon's regained agency was a consequence of Sansa's rape given he betrayed her the following episode)

mateiyu, you don't grow out of being raped. That isn't a fair expectation of anyone, real or imaginary, and it isn't a comment on anybody's character but the victimiser's.

I don't see why Sansa's failure to become some kind of puppetmaster is a narrative failure. I mean, I would have been fine with it for its consonance as a pulp development on a pulp television show. But having her be paralysed by antipathy towards the men who murdered her family, then overwhelmed by the forces in the…

I'm not going to see this in cinemas unless the reviews are stellar but I thought this trailer was in the 95th percentile for funny trailers.