Is the irony here that the two Coreys - famous for being the comic relief in a not-especially-dark teen vampire movie from the 1980s - had more genuine darkness in their personal lives than the whole teenage angst/vampire trend that that movie kicked off?

But only if it involves an extended discussion of taxing trade routes.

The world is just the same as in the 12th century, except there are 100% more guns.

Too meandering for someone who likes Deadwood? Sweet Jesus, that must be one fucking tangential show.

"There are maybe 17 people involved in the classic battle, but viewers think they’re seeing two vast armies at war"

Sorry but I prefer synthehol.

China, the land of wind and ghosts and sequels.

There was a time when the AV Club would have trusted its readers to either know who Baudelaire was or - if they didn't (and there's no shame in that) - to be able to look it up by themselves.

Nobody who plays Pokemon Go could be an evil man!

And if you ever did forget that John Woo directed MI2, those trademark doves are there to remind you, every fucking time.

Eh, I'm pretty sure Professor Griff would write a song entitled '9/11 is a joke."

Or perhaps because they watched the episode of Rome in which Titus Pullo and his buddy Lucius Vorenus fight in the gladiator pits and realised it was fucking AWESOME.

They would have done, like, five hundred takes just to get the first shot right.

<shrug>

Thunder isn't turbulent?

Rumbling is, by its very nature, an expression of turbulence.

"Each section fairly seethes with the turbulent rumbling of her mind"

Yeah great, but I wanted Ricardus to turn out to be a Roman centurion or something. And we'd get a flashback to the Island in the days of Atlantis filled with temples and shit. Instead we got a coherent explanation for the arrival of the Black Rock and what happened to the Statute - two things which I was happy to…

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"

Except I think you'll find the ethnic minorities in those towns weren't, by and large, the ones voting Leave.