I was totally uninterested in most of the movie, but the last 20 minutes were great — minus the final 2 minutes. The creeping despair as things only become more alien and inhumanly dangerous, the sense that they had actually been living in the best oasis and in fact the human race had already long ago been lost to…

The politics around this show are tricky to navigate. The reviewer seems to suggest a few times that some freedom of "consent" is required for these women to have agency or in order to avoid making them "endless victims," and that attempting to show Lucy making a mistake would, to some degree, be engaging in…

I hate to be that person, but for those of us who studiously avoid the spoilers of trailers but very much enjoy reading retrospective reviews like this one, it's a shame to start the review off with trailer spoilers. Ah well.

Gotta side with Marnie on this one. Obnoxious as she was, Hannah was much worse. And dumb as Marnie's epiphany was with the pawn broker, Hannah's with the teenager was much, much worse. Terrible writing, and bizarrely bad acting — it didn't just bring you out of the story, it sucked away all of my attention as I…

As someone who has their life together now, a house in suburbia, kids, stable jobs… I miss the shit on the street.

Nice review — after finishing the episode, we were remarking on how great the line reading in particular is. My viewing partner and I both feel that this season's writing is a bit weaker than the last couple seasons — still good, but not as great — and we were noting ourselves that that last line, as written, is a…

Yep — and the soup metaphor was certainly the more interesting one. Though as for tumors, cancer is rarely so easily solved as just cutting it out. Hopefully the writers were aware of that and we'll find that these two foes were not so easily or entirely separated.

It aspired to be art, and to be art, it should be both. Whether you call it comic book or science fiction, the goal is an internally consistent world that is also in dialogue with the viewer's concerns and interests in the real world. And of course that's what it did for seven episodes, doing both art and comic book…

I love tracking shots as much as the next person, but this particular tracking shot seems a tad too familiar. Though I'm sure it was intentional, the fact that it looked exactly like a million video games we've all played diminished the sense of realism significantly for me. Oddly, the one bit of realism such games…

Clearly I'm in the tiny minority here, but I thought the last episode was by far the weakest of the lot. Rather than delve into the psychology of mental illness, it was exactly the fantasy that David and others had been critiquing throughout the show: simplistic rescue and expungement (via lasers, love, or some other…

Few things more sinister than an opening intertitle with the single word

Don't worry, the long tail will save it. Some of us DVR the comments.

This show certainly had some drawbacks, including the somewhat patly ambiguous ending, but it was far better than this review, which is not terrible, but is certainly ungenerous and uninterested in engaging with the narrative. If you care about the truth of the narrative, there are abundant hints in both directions…

Also, why would she have kept the books in an Amazon box? It's not like it was a secret that would have been understood by her parents. Also, the books were carefully presented to be clearly unread. That's not the sort of mistake that set crews make. Whether the box was planted or she bought the books, they were…

Pretty sure this was all just an elaborate meta-narrative, much like The Good Place. How do you kill off a beloved series? Not by killing the main character — Doyle tried that, and showed that can never work, because the genius detective could always have been faking it. No, the only way to kill off the series for…

S1 was a nice surprise, a tight little SF story of the sort SyFy so often attempts and fails at. Minimal dialog and plot cliches, solid acting, a plot that keeps a decent pace while still focusing on the characters. Nothing too ambitious, but what it does it does with tidy professionalism.

Having finally caught up with this season, I'd say this is my favorite show that I thoroughly disagree with politically. White guy gets saved not just by the self-sacrificing magical black man, but also by his anti-magical black son-in-law (who has now, it seems, seen the light, thanks to magical white guy). Women…

They have to tweak the analogy a bit if it's going to properly hippy-bash. It's clearly some amalgam of Burning Man, Zucotti, and Woodstock, a standard hippy dystopia full of swindlers, jeering crowds, violence, superstition and bare boobs. It makes no sense that the police would allow public torture (even within…

Welfare reform, crime bill, NAFTA, DOMA, Telecom Act, attempted social security privatization (derailed in 1998)… Bill Clinton is definitely the best Reagan since Reagan.

All plausible. And except in magic storyland where the hero can never die — which GRRM et al insist this is not — that is basically sentencing Jon to near-certain death. Kudos to her if she meant it.