The show is broadcasting on free over the air television. Pirate it?

Part of the problem in Hollywood is that factoring equal wages is impossible. Actors aren't forklift operators, so there could be an entirely justified market reason to offer one more than the other. It's the "half" part that's atrocious. And I seriously doubt Duchovney got DOUBLE his initial offer, i.e., that the…

She is the best thing about The Fall and Hannibal. I agree Californication lasted a long time and rested on Duchovney, so I could understand, perhaps, some disparity in an initial offer — but half? No. Besides, to the property here, Scully is just as essential as Mulder. Equal pay for equal work makes perfect sense.

But I don't think that's always true. Video game characters are sometimes quickly sketched blank slates, with a limited range of action and dialogue, onto which players project their own ideas. Plus, you have the issues of ludonarrative dissonance. When I played GTA IV, did I "relate" to Niko Belic as a survivor of a…

No, it's flamebait because advising anyone to relate to video game characters "as people" is not terribly well-thought out. People who threaten her are disgusting but every article I see about her critiques makes me roll my eyes at least once at what she has to say. There's a line between cogent feminist criticism and…

I'm probably the 500th post saying this, but did she really say players need to "empathize with video game characters as people?"

Very likely nobody will read this comment so long after the review.

Hmm. Wikipedia describes this show as based on "… the absurdity of political correctness." Dennis's final verdict on Frank is that he's a bad husband, a bad father, and a bad guy (but relatable). Beg pardon, but isn't that judgment the politically correct assessment of Frank? No one can argue that yelling at and…

I agree totally. There's a "pc" to both sides. I can't throw in with the anti-pc people today, because they are so deliberately offensive so much of the time. I'm just irritated that a lot of sites that pretty clearly are friendly to left wing cultural criticism, e.g. feminist, anti-racist, can be so obnoxious about…

I want to offer the mild observation that when people talk about "pc ruining everything" they are not necessarily talking about white people not being able to make racist jokes in public anymore.

The show is smart to raise the "abuse" issue in the way it did without firmly telling the audience "this is abuse."

True enough, but Bach is pretty genuinely religious. Call it good faith faith. And it's a pretty common theme about his work that even the secular stuff is rich with deep spiritual/Christian feeling, which is not said of, say, Mozart. Not s big "gotcha" but I think there's a good point that tons of excellent secular…

Not … No.

But that's silly if you take your statement literally. Bach is Jesus Inspired Entertainment.

And since I didn't see anybody else talking about this particular offense: was anybody else annoyed at the Spirit write-up relying on the joke that hey, this Jewish guy sounds like he oughtta be a doctor! I mean, after the dumb title and the lack of overall diversity, making obvious Jewish Doctor jokes about the…

Weird title, weird picks. Religion is still a thing you're supposed to at least try to be polite about.

Strange? You think it's strange? If you don't overdetermine every moment or image on a show, or attempt to force a show to bear cultural weight it wasn't made to handle, then you are doing criticism wrong.

Seriously? No. Just no. This is like when Rush Limbaugh says something really dumb, but plays it off as him "joking." I can assure you that the word in that sentence is not used facetiously, because you were not being flippant toward the concept of "mansplaining," or its overuse. In other words, there was no ironic…

Thank you, yes. I liked the movie a lot, and no, it doesn't end with someone actually explaining the pop psychology to the audience, but it's absolutely exactly the opposite of It Follows. It's incredibly clear that the mom made the book and the monster was really her unresolved grief and anger toward her son over the…

Lolita is certainly a great work of literature.