99.9% safe.

It’s not like a bunch of people were saying ‘Wow, Massoud is so great in the regrettable live action remake of the much better cartoon you need to go see it anyhow!’

Yeah, maybe the guy who made Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Silence, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Last Temptation of Christ, After Hours, Raging Bull, and Hugo needs work on his range.

Him going on Oprah and peddling his personal sob story also left a lot of people feeling highly manipulated, since she was the one who really brought it to the public’s attention.

I don’t think there’s anything cooler than an audience spontaneously bursting into cheering and applause. It’s not like people were carrying on conversations, the movie just had that powerful of an impact on them. I loved watching it. 

Yeah, sorry, the idea that what he did was innocuous is a dog that won’t hunt. He inserted himself into a real-life disaster which claimed human lives that he had no role in. He brazenly and repeatedly lied to people’s faces (including Oprah) when they asked him about criticism that parts of the book were implausible…

What makes the scandal awesome was that he got caught by Oprah and she absolutely destroyed him. Oprah may seem friendly and happy, but don't cross her or else she will rain hellfire upon you. 

Yeah, the fact that a guy passed off his failed novel as a true story to finally gin up a book deal is quite far from “a transgression one might term “good writing.”” What an extremely weird argument for the article to make.

If he’d sold it as “autobiographical fiction” it would have been accepted just fine, that’s a real genre term used in lit and libraries. But a memoir is a considered factual on the face of it. While things may be embellished because memories are hastily thrown together pictures most often, his was embellished in ways…

I think calling what Frey did “exaggerations for dramatic effect” is way too kind, however. It was a novel, not a memoir with some details embellished or streamlined for narrative convenience. If I write a story about my life and I write a scene that incorporates elements of a bunch of different conversations I had…

Right, but all of the best genre pieces have elements of subversion baked into them. Sundance Kid subverted the Western, The Shining subverted horror, and 2001 subverted sci-fi -- yet all are held up as pinnacles of their respective genres. It’s the difference between goodness and greatness. 

It would have been a nice bonus, but adding a “good” white cop would have undercut the narrative.

As soon as it was “revealed” that William was HJ I couldn’t help but think “how could anyone other than a black man wear a noose as his armor?”

Since I got mostly right about Will’s origin, as stated in my other post, I would like to try a second theory, now on the “great plan” of him and Lady Trieu: consciously, is using the masterplan of the Cyclops against their (Will and Trieu’s) perceived antagonists; and unconsciously, it’s sorta of a rethread of Adrain…

pretty sure I just watched every person involved in this show earn an Emmy. best series of the year for me at this point, so many great touches. the flashes of red in the black and white memories calling back to “Pale Horse” which is itself a reference to Schindler’s List. ‘there is a vast and insidious conspiracy’…

I’m really glad the task of reviewing this show here falls on Joelle, who’s been doing a stellar job at it. Can’t think of any of the usual reviewers here who would’ve been a better fit.

I never knew I needed to see Klansmen beaten to hell and gone set to Ink Spots songs, but here we are.

Weirdly enough, this episode’s plot twist is heavily reminiscent of an episode of the 1990s Spider-Man cartoon where a masked hero from the 1940s (the Black Marvel) is revealed to have been a black man, unbeknownst to all the other members of the American Six, his superhero team from that period.

Yiddle (stolen from the Avocado)