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Karthik Shankar
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The writer's strike was from November 2007 to February 2008. Parks premiered in April 2009. Any improvement in the show was because the writers and actors figured out its tone as they went along.

Unfortunately women and people of color can't see themselves in certain fantasies.

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The problem with Super 8 for me is that it feels like two films. One is an excellently acted and very charming coming of age tale. The other is a stupidly plotted mess of a monster film (albeit one with some nice action setpieces). The thing about the 80s films that Abrams was inspired by was that even if their

What I found truly subversive about the first movie was Rose Byrne's character. In most of these movies the wife is the wet blanket, yet here she's as much a part of the hijinks and as childish as Rogen's character. I also loved that scene where they had a fight, she storms out and they basically get back together in

That made me spit out my coffee. Well done.

Joffrey always remained an interesting character even while being a murderous sociopath. Ramsay is just not interesting to watch because he's insane, but also in control in a way that makes him switch personalities from scene to scene. I also don't think Iwan Rheon's perfomance does the character any favours. He does

Ok I had to laugh. That's a perfect way of putting it. It's one reason I hope Jon actually is dead. So many of the book theories revolve around him that I hope Martin once again upends the convention of the chosen hero. That being said, it's unlikely the show will follow suit.

You want the good girl but you need the bad pussy.

I wish this didn't constantly weigh on my mind, but just like last year's finale, I kept expecting to see Lady Stoneheart crop up. When the show ended with For the Watch, I pretty much resigned myself to the fact that it will never happen given that the show is not going to resurrect two dead Stark characters.

I feel like Tina Fey made a show where she brought a Leslie Knope kind of character into a 30 Rock world and it weirdly works very well. The only points where it jarred was the trial scenes which felt like something out of Parks and Rec rather than 30 Rock.

I think Emilia Clarke works best when she's not mouthing dialogues, which is why she seemed like a standout in the first season. Her dialogue delivery is piss poor because she over enunciates every word and it just comes off as some discount theater performance.

Lena Headey has always been the show's MVP for me. Her facial expressions are always amazing to watch. I remember this season 2 scene where she, Tommen, Myrcella and Sansa are having dinner and she studies Sansa's face as she professes her love for Joffrey. Within a matter of seconds it keeps switching from taunting

Till that develops into something, it's the equivalent of Sansa fantasizing about pushing Joffrey off the wall and saying "Maybe he'll give me yours."

Perfectly articulated. I also wonder what exactly Littlefinger and Sansa's motivations were in this story too. He basically holds the key to the north and he just gives her off to Roose Bolton, even though he tells Cersei that he wants the North. As for Sansa she goes from studied and shrewd to indifferent with Ramsay

I fucking love Queen Latifah. She's one of those rare actors who always rises above the material she's given (see Bring Down The House for instance). Honestly I think she's similar to The Rock in the sense she just radiates charisma in every one of her performances. But in addition to that she's also a very versatile

The Family, Quantico and The Catch all look like they have interesting plots for a tight two hour thriller. As network series, I'm less uncertain. Still, hopefully they can pull off that combination of soapy melodrama and thriller stuff. The Family particularly looks super eerie, especially that ending.

I know he might not be the kind of Asian you're looking for, but Riz Ahmed is supposedly the frontrunner for the male lead in Star Wars: Rogue, the spinoff that stars Felicity Jones as the lead among a group of rebel fighters who steal plans for the Death Star.

I believe it is CW's third best rated show in terms of 18-49 after The Flash and Arrow. What's more impressive is that despite the claims that its ratings were high because it follows the CW's highest rated show (Flash), it managed to grow from a Flash repeat last week, which means it has a loyal and steady audience.