"Everyday Life in Medieval Europe: The Series" — I'm so there!

Plus, bonus Shakespeare connection and built-in supernatural themes — seems right up his alley.

Saddles, either. (We won't even touch the issue of pre-mediaeval stirrups since it's a safety-and-competence problem as much as an accuracy one…)

I mostly saw people upset about it and making bitter jokes about it, not because it was "different" but because "puppy-kicking", literally, is an Evil Villain Cliche from so far back, nobody expected them to play iit straight.

Yes. Though now there are two of them, since Adam Baldwin is also a rightwing crank. But he is more aggressive than whiny, I think? But it seems to be the default defense for the social consequences of "Being An Asshole While Christian" anymore.

Why they didn't email photos so they'd be sure to recognize each other, either. It's a typical Shyamalan contrivance that only works so long as you don't think about it, like Signs or The Village.

It also makes no sense since the grandparents were clearly online and connected, if they made contact through Facebook, and the mom and kids Skype all the time — why WOULDN'T they have exchanged photos, or even Skyped already?

There's nothing like cutting out one tiny bit of your sacred texts and holding it up as an excuse to throw out all the rest of them! "Even the Devil can quote Scripture" was never more appropriate. That goes along with the woman who unironically asked Angela Merkel the other day, "Okay, you're taking care of these…

All the upvotes. (I think a lot of it comes down to people mostly preferring to play games of social dominance, than do anything constructive or learn about others — which both take humility and self-awareness, compared to bragging and put-downs, which are easy. And then we wonder why, as a species, we're still…

I don't think it is. Pretty sure this is more Shyamalan being out of touch with "the common folk" and thinking he's hip to the kids these days with their raps and their skypes and their ironic self-awareness…

Of course they are. But if you don't realize you're presenting a horrible irresponsible parent as such, expect to be called out on it. And the only thing we appear to be expected by Shyamalan to call out as wrong on the mother's part, is failing to forgive and make up with her parents for so long. Not the belated…

Very strange, then, that she hadn't had the kids speak over Skype to her parents before the visit. Even less probable than failing to have them send a picture so as to help them recognize each other.

No, she's not the sort of meth-head parent who ends up on the news, she's supposed to be a with-it, together, employed, socially-engaged human being who can function normally in society and whose children are clean, educated, healthy, socialized and possessed of expensive toys.

Oddly enough, it was her Superbowl halftime show (dressed as a glam/punk Cleopatra) that seems to have sent them over the edge into complete speaking-in-tongues barking bonkers madness…

Some telling reviews:

Well, it's also BATMAN BATMAN BATMAN BATMAN, BATMAN'S BATMAN BATMAN, BATMAN? BATMAN! You know? I mean, c'mon, it's Batman!

No. Probably not. You have to let all the clunky prose and forced nostalgia references burn themselves into your retinas, that way. (Yes, still bitter about that waste of money.)

It's the "rich middle-aged white dude from the big city" problem striking again. It's really hard to be a radical rebel against The Man when you, well, ARE The Man now yourself.

That's the Spirit!

Or how his daughter Julia ended up marrying a Russian prince and getting Faberge as a wedding present…