From a 2013 NYT piece about Jayson Blair:

Undoing this free lunch will be next to impossible, and the entire media landscape will be a lot shittier for the foreseeable future, and all because Trump put the Reese mug guy in charge.

Why is she wearing a Kylo Ren costume?

No shit eh? Well that is top shelf news. Thanks!

I know it’s not the same genre, but if Amazon wanted to go for epic and original, they should try adapting something like Snow Crash or Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. I’m dying to see a good faith attempt at portraying those amazing stories, which, just like American Gods, could definitely make for a few great…

Although I can see your point, I just re-watched Thor, and I think “boy-crazy” is a bit of a stretch. It seemed to me that Jane’s main motivation throughout the film is getting back her stolen work. Also, Thor is the only one who helps her (by getting her stolen notebook back from S.H.I.E.L.D), so her attraction to…

I’m sorry my comments came off as insensitive, but for the billionth time: My main gripe is not with the material’s plausibility, but with how that material gets presented within the TV show.

The type of cognitive dissonance that Trump engenders should be classified in the DSM-VI.

Also, Halt and Catch Fire is great!

A therapist could at least point out that the Internet is only one of many different ways to make friends, and hopefully encourage this young woman to pull herself away from the screens when she needs to.

Thanks for your hearty response to what was initially a complaint about the writing on a TV show (an opinion that still has yet to change BTW), and also for pedantically explaining wholly unrelated things to me, but seeing as you’ve now completely moved on from Stranger Things, I think we’re done now.

IMO, every single one of Trump’s major decisions boils down to those wonderful five minutes when Obama absolutely thrashed him during that correspondents dinner speech, when nobody was seriously politically invested in Trump, and everyone just laughed.

My condolences to the hard-earned money of everyone who is about to get bilked by the upcoming flood of gimcrack pseudoscience.

Counterpoint: “pretty clear” is not clear enough when introducing a character with extreme, plot-affecting behaviours, no matter how much the behaviour itself resonates with the audience. Simple as that.

It seems like you, similar to myself, are having to speculate about the motives of that character, because none were depicted in the show.

Oh, ok, sure, he’s just like that. There are millions (!) of dads all over the place who are ready to viciously strike their children at the slightest provocation, all the time. It must be testosterone or something right? Or maybe human nature is just irredeemably grim? Is that it?

I understand that domestic violence is normal, but I just wanted to know why the dad became so upset so fast. There’s clearly something deeper there, and I’m sure it’s coming next year, but that’s pretty much my entire point. Season 1 was self-contained and wonderfully executed, but season 2 marks the transition to a…

I’m not denying that Max (or yourself, or any other victim of domestic violence) has a compelling story, I just don’t like the way the show approached it. Simple as that.

The first season was special, there’s no doubt, but I (for one) can’t help but feel that season 2 was flawed.

In order to explain why Max and Billy have an abusive relationship, we learn that Billy is resentful of his own abusive father, and channels that resentment against Max.