The Road is very bleak but it’s also very straight forward and an easy read (if not emotionally). Blood Meridian is an entirely different beast and I wouldn’t recommend it to newcomers. “Beautiful” is not a word I would use to describe his work. “Harsh” would be more apt. But there can be truth and insight within that…

Wow, that’s a really good description of that movie. There’s definitely some sort of stylistic dissonance going on in it that isn’t unnerving, but off-putting. Sam Neil is a hugely underrated actor though.

Presumably because the ability to act was also needed.

Here’s my hot take: Stephen King sucks and his bloated dominance of the horror genre has stifled innovation and diversity for decades at this point. Except for maybe a handful of successful adaptations (all HEAVILY divorced from him and his source material at that), most of the things made from his work are painfully…

You mention recency bias but clearly are blind to your own massive nostalgia bias. None of those movies you’ve listed are objectively good. “Cheesy” is the most generous I can be about them.

Oooh, this is a real spicy bad take.

“Puppeted corpse”

Jfc. This is a nuanced issue that has to do with representation and the idea of cultural ownership. Real, pressing topics in a world were drag is LITERALLY BEING MADE ILLEGAL. But this writer doesn’t know jack shit about what they are saying here and so instead they’ve presented it in a way that generates the most…

I was meh about the first season but man, this really clicked with me. A few highlights for me were the depiction of her Dad (we do not get enough tv depictions of good, loving Dads), the joy of the wedding and Fred’s speech, and just the still-radical depiction of a larger woman living her life in ways so often not…

I read Shiv’s decision completely differently than most people, apparently. Her mind changed when she was stopped on the way to the big meeting and asked if she was going to change things once she was in charge. Why else was that scene included? It poked at all the insecurities that have been fostered in her her…

Oh nice one. Yeah, I found that ending very effective and it stuck with me for a long time after.

The Good Place ending never sat right with me either and I think you’ve finally managed to articulate a possible reason why that resonates with me. It’s a sad, cynical ending and I didn’t like it either.

Lol, nerd.

Threads is just so incredible. I watched the American equivalent, The Day After, and it just doesn’t come close. Threads is one of the bleakest films I’ve ever seen. No hope, no relief, just the grim reality of the scenario it explores.

I knew they had done this before, but better. Modern AV Club lists are, I’m sorry, garbage. This is Buzzfeed levels of depth and analysis.

It’s rough but it’s also pretty suffused with a dark sense of humor, which makes it very tolerable.

I fucking hated Tideland with the white hot fury of a thousand suns. I hated it so much, it leaked out into making me hate every single movie that complete hack has ever made.

Why would anyone watch A Serbian Film the first time though.

Some misogynistic dumbass in every single review of this show parroting this nonsense about Shiv.

Her acting student’s agent used that. I think it’s funnier.