This post brought back fond memories of a fight with my long distance then-boyfriend (over G-chat) over Avatar that got so heated he called me a fascist and/or a supporter of a totalitarian regime (after I said: in real life, the blue people probably would've gotten destroyed by the bigger, more technically advanced…

To me that was my biggest issue with the series (which I unabashedly love, still), and I still think about it when I think about the show—it's a toxic message to say that a guy like Big gets his act together to end up with a Carrie (a girl he never took very seriously, and never wanted to commit to, except when it was…

Based on reviews that book 4 on wasn't great (and my general reading fatigue) I stopped after book 3 and just pretended it was a trilogy (I couldn't commit to more 1,200-plus page books in the series). I wiki'ed the characters for a "where are they now?" catch up, and I'm completely fine with that. I know, I'm…

Ah, AJ, coming from you that means a lot! Thank you.

I didn't bother watching this season until I saw the uniformly good reviews on AVClub around episode 4, and now I'm so glad I got back into it. I thought it was overwhelmingly strong, had fantastic character development, and ended really beautifully—it could've been a series finale.

I read the books almost 20 years ago, and I don't remember big chunks of plot besides much of Outlander (which I re-read after Season 1 part 1 ended and had forgotten how dense it was), but I remember SOBBING when SPOILER ALERT she found Jamie again (I guess in book 3?) I need to re-read books 2 and 3 (I stopped after…

I'm a mid-30s person, and I really enjoy this show because I get to pretend I wasn't that obnoxious and self-absorbed when I was in my early 20s—or maybe it's too difficult to be quite Hannah levels of obnoxious.  It's mostly cringe-worthy for me, and yet I find the show incredibly well done and Lena Dunham is hard…