I'm assuming that not all porn is exploitative or abusive to women, though obviously that also happens. (I don't know the stats, and didn't mean to sound so glib about the issue.)

Yeah, I meant to exclude good old-fashioned porn. No pretensions of a "higher purpose."

This reinforces my cynicism about explicit sexuality and nudity in film: that behind every scene, there's a powerful and creepy old guy saying "do it for art." Fucking disgusting.

Fed his name to the Internet Anagram Server.

In fairness, the baby in the photo can probably do neither. So, there's that.

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The issue of MiB = William is nothing more (to me) than annoying, and an extremely hokey point upon which to hinge anything more than one-or-two episodes. Am I supposed to admire the way the two timelines were cleverly kept apart by the writers? It reminds me of reading an Agatha Christie novel, where the identity of…

Too much of the drama in this show hinges upon information that's been deliberately withheld, or deliberately scattered across multiple timelines.

Too bad. I was looking forward to a prestige remake of Crawlspace.

I just started watching The Kettering Incident. I'd never heard of it, but it's pretty damned compelling. (It's on Prime, btw.)

I abandoned the series the moment they discovered the other 'survivors'; it was such an obvious device to keep the ball rolling. Years later, I watched from beginning-to-end, and enjoyed it; the fuss about the ending seems overblown.

Stranger Things works for me despite the barrage of references.

Thanks! At the very least, I'll have a look at those episodes.

Agree, but I don't think the first five or six seasons should be written off simply because of the series itself lacks closure. When I re-watched a few years ago, I was surprised at how well it held up, and in particular at how quickly and confidently it found its footing, to the point of going slightly meta, even in…

Bill Nighy's Worricker trilogy is streaming on Amazon Prime. It's a genre-defying (or maybe genre-ignoring) politial/conspiracy/spy thriller. But with guest stars like Christopher Walken, Winona Ryder and Helena Bonham Carter, it's a lot of fun just watching these folks work in the same scene.

Yikes! Thanks for reminding me…that's one of the more memorable episode(s.) I really liked the way they handled the concept, and how quickly Moriarty comes to terms with his artificiality, and immediately starts using it to his advantage. Intelligent and concise writing.

I could be wrong, but haven't we, at this point, already seen him drag women off-screen, presumably for reasons other than tea? Meaning he's OK with a bit of robot-rape, but robot murder…well, that's just too much….(?)

Would the MiB, a sophisticated and highly intelligent person, really expect to get any insights into his emotional makeup by shooting some robots at an upscale amusement park? The story hit a big speed-bump for me on that point.

Was that the one with Tim Conway?

Hey, at least someone smacked the shit out of him.