This has mostly served to remind me how much I miss Teti's Project Runway reviews. I don't watch the show anymore but I still have an insatiable craving to read him be mean about ugly dresses.

That was definitely the funniest line in the episode. I could listen to Luisa narrate her life every week. I also like that the show didn't drop her spiritual awakening or the fact that her family locked her up.

Jawbreaker? What a bizarre misspelling of Clueless.

One of the things I really enjoyed in Devil Survivor and found missing in other SMT games was Keisuke, their Death Note expy, dying if you leave him alone for too long. It's way out of the realm of the expected consequences of missing a few social interactions, and really added to the feeling of chaos and social…

I was surprised to see it included in the reader's poll for that reason, but I assumed that means it qualifies for this year, maybe because it was just released on Steam?

Before I got to the end of Bravely Default I thought the endgame sounded interesting and fun. It is not interesting and fun to play through, at all. Something about running through every boss fight a second time makes the first round seem retroactively less satisfying.

I am prepared to be the weirdo who sticks up for Hatoful Boyfriend. I voted for it in the reader's poll, and while I don't think it is actually better than, say, Wolfenstein, I do think that it was one of the most surprising and fun games I've "played" (read?) in a while. It took its absurd premise of a pigeon dating…

This was a better list than I expected, although I do not understand Perfume Genius' appeal at all. It always seems like he is having an intense emotional experience more than writing a decent song, and yes I realize that makes me sound completely tasteless.

I always thought it was beautiful and very quintessentially Darnielle that one of his most political songs is about mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Even his politics are more tangible and thoughtful than nearly any other songwriter.

Your trailer instincts are definitely correct. The film gives you plenty of room to think Sam's politics are childish.

I really wasn't thrilled with the movie, and it's annoying that the only real criticisms it's getting are on political grounds. I'm actually impressed that people managed to get such heated readings of gender and male-female relationships out of it, and I wish I found it moving enough even to make me upset. I just…

If there was an Emmy for getting and completely wasting the best guest stars, the Mindy Project would have it in the bag.

I don't know shit about this musical but the way Passing Strange got treated by general Broadway audiences was uninspiring, to say the least.

"God must enjoy divinely influencing the outcomes of trivial contests. He does it all the time."

This movie more or less single-handedly taught me how to have sympathy for rich people. I think they do a great job of having the characters be unabashedly rich and spoiled and yet how that really does nothing to save them from the human perils of adolescence. Their indulgences are also incredibly lame, which helps.

Ha. If we're going to play the logical fallacy game, I'm not sure you should be throwing stones, as your argument seems to be "I feel that this is true, so it probably is."

I have no idea how you came up with the factoid in your last paragraph. If it's anything other than your imagination, that's absolutely shocking to me. Same Love came after a number of pop cultural events — songs, tv shows — that were far larger on a cultural cache level. Will & Grace and Born This Way, for example. I…

Definitely. I like her a lot, and as a musician I love her, but I dunno about spinning her standard-issue evasiveness into some radical queer act.

She looked like a god damned lizard. I can't believe she wasn't read for that.

Agreed. It feels like she's being purposefully dense about the political reality of the situation. Compared to what Sansa is dealing with, it makes her look profoundly childish.