Just finished, so sorry for replying to this a couple weeks later, but EXACTLY!

They don’t want to live through the horrific crime Avery absolutely committed again. And it’s not their obligation to do so.

I’ll check it out, thanks!

If you haven’t already watch the full tape of Brendan Dassey’s confession. It leaves a very different impression than the part they showed in Making a Murderer.

He walks through much of the details of what happened with no coercion from the detectives. The part the doc makers showed was bad, for sure, but that isn’t…

I thought Season 1 was compelling while we were watching it, but around episode 5 you start to realize that it’s pretty much just a defense case. The makers of the documentary aren’t interested in exploring the case, they just want to show that Steven Avery is innocent. I was still upset by everything presented to us,…

I’m inclined to agree. I DO think there was misconduct in the legal process, and ideally I’d like to see Avery get a new trial, but I do believe he is guilty. The evidence, physical and circumstantial, weighs too much against him.

Because he did it.

See that’s a huge flaw in the original film.  For all the bending over backwards they do to disprove every piece of evidence against Avery, they are never able to put forth a plausible alternate scenario.

While I can certainly agree with the belief in Dassey’s innocence, such a belief in Avery is baffling. He was most definitely framed (they both were), but Avery is nonetheless guilty of Halbach’s murder.  There may not be enough evidence to convict him in a fair court of law (especially now that it’s been so…

I’m a son of a mother who could be/can be cruel and incredibly emotionally abusive, and much of this resonates with me.

I agree. Eden’s only 15, how old is Gilead? Not 15 years, so Eden grew up this way before it all officially went down. I think showing Eden as being so young and so hopelessly indoctrinated really shows us there’s this other generation beneath June that’s getting royally fucked over. Her one and only act of rebellion…

Agreed. I thought her story ended exactly like a 15 year old girl’s story would likely end in Gilead. She believes so strongly that the feelings she feels right now are the be all, end all of everything. (Source: Was a 15 year old girl; have an almost 15 year old girl now) That’s a kind of passion and idealism you can…

I think her death was one of the most powerful acts of resistance someone could take on in Gilead. Essentially, despite being given a public opportunity to atone for her sins and admit that they are sins, meaning Gilead’s interpretation of the bible and life as it should be is correct - she chose to die rather than…

Completely agree. Nothing about her story went the way I expected. I thought she’d turn Nick in multiple times. Then I thought she’d turn June in a time or two. Then I thought she’d turn on Isaac rather than die. Then I thought Isaac would turn on her. None of it happened, and personally I think the story is better…

Just caught up with the show; dude is straight wack. Granted, I don’t remember much of him in the novel, but every time he is in screen, I gotta check my phone or something. It doesn’t help he is paired up with one of the most expressive actors working today.

I don’t know if I’m exactly a “Batman Forever” apologist, but I honestly enjoyed it more than “Batman Returns.” The latter is a bloated mess with too many villains and too many competing plots. It has cats licking Catwoman back to life and penguins performing a goddamn Viking funeral. Yet “Batman Forever” is the…

Same. Carrey’s performance hasn’t aged well, but some of the punchlines still land, and at least he’s really selling it. Everyone in B&R looks like they are rolling their eyes while saying their lines. In fact Uma Thurman pretty much does at one point.

I’m with you. Forever is a hoot (and if nothing else, gave us the single weirdest non-Japanese arcade game I’ve ever seen), but B&R is just plain boring, which is no small feat for such an insane film.

I think I’d be inclined to defend him if “ripe” was the only item on this list. It’s tacky and a poor choice of words, but maybe could be innocent. The rest though throws it into another light and makes me think there was nonverbal stuff that is being lost in translation.

As I said, it’s easy to tell the difference between a “hang in there” type comment and a sexualized one. In any event, she deemed the encounter as uncomfortable, which is what’s actually relevant.