This, so much. I was thinking about The Dead Zone the other day (I wonder why), and how his downfall was caused by him using a toddler as a human shield. I never thought I’d see the day when that scene would seem kinda naive.

Lol!

Yes. I mean, I’ve been asking myself how the whole Euron business is going to fit in with the Winter is Coming, and y’all are fucked storyline - and now it turns out we’re going into Lovecraft territory? In other words, so far off the rails that the train is actually flying now? Oh, lord.

If you really want to watch this, wait for the pilot and don’t watch the trailer, which gives away everything - the entire plot of the pilot from beginning to end.

I can’t remember the movie but in the book, the boy’s rape is more graphically depicted because he’s the POV character in the book.

OMG you just read my thoughts when I looked at that picture.

I bought that on cassette tape, ok. I listened to it all the time on my Walkman (it was actually a Sanyo knockoff, like I could afford a Walkman).

I saw some of the commenters put Bill Cosby as a possibility.

I got my copy off Amazon (the English translation - my French isn’t good enough to read a whole novel), but that was over a decade ago when I was writing my thesis (on feminist post-apocalyptic SF). I don’t know if it’s still in print.

There’s a series of books like that, called The Maerlande Chronicles, by Elisabeth Vonarburg (originally in French).

And the SNL Thanksgiving sketch is already “not available in your country”.

I didn’t watch It Follows but I’ve seen it most recently in the latest episode of Criminal Minds - Nice Guy tells girl about party in the neighbourhood, when they arrive there’s no party (both of them gives the impression it’s been shut down by parents/cops, but I strongly suspect there was no party), and instead of…

“Drug-fueled sex”? Are you shitting me?

My favourite (as in most bullshit) of the “changes to the script” was the scene in which Angelina takes off her panties and puts them over the security camera in the interrogation room - yes, this is an actual scene which exists in the fucking movie.

Yep. In other news, water is wet!

Ah, the AV club. Mansplainer central.

Hey, your guess is as good as mine, as I have no idea what that is. Now whether it’s because I’m not from the U.S. or because I’m old, I dunno.

The couple had also been experiencing marital and financial problems. Kristine had a life insurance policy worth $340,000 at the time of her death.

I’ve realised now that it always bugged me when Willow (or Tara) said “Five by five, what does that mean, anyway?”

I love Bill Bailey. One of my favourites is his bit about the BBC news theme tune.