You lose all credibility when you suggest women’s belief in their physical attractiveness is so central to their universe that no rational dialogue can continue after it’s been questioned. Not all women are beautiful, and your hysterical response suggests you’re a real woofer, like the overweight, bugeyed, palsied…
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“couldn’t he get, like, literally any other job to pay his bills?”
He’s not out to merely pay his bills. He is out to gather capital and contacts and references so he can start his own PI firm, a goal to which, in his mind, he has precisely one route: Hogarth. And this was said on screen a number of times. You may also…
“What do we think the connection between Beth and Nick is/was?”
I guess you forgot that this was previously established in scene? Well, why expect a pro TV critic to have paid attention to the show, right?
Marthas aren’t black in the book. The Children of Ham have been resettled, so they can’t be. [Do people actually *read* this book, or only make pronouncements about it online?]
“Not so the weirdly public welcome and sustained applause at the hospital, which Alexis Bledel rightly plays as totally bewildering.”
You...do understand babies have become a rare event in the world? That this is the primary motivator of all the fictional developments in the series? She got a baby out of a hostile…
I can’t believe someone’s trying to write about this as if it were a serious show.
Hey! I trade sex for money for a living! How dare people, while I’m trying to make a living, expect me to trade money for sex! I so hold the moral high ground here! Don’t grab my breasts at a party, just offer me a pittance to have strangers shoot loads on my face, because that’s professional and respectful!
Typical AV Club work. They’re paid a pittance, and only here for that.
If this oneisn’t an F, it’s getting hard to imagine any episode of this show you WOULD give an F. These social media jokes wouldn’t have been clever or funny in 2013 when the first season came out.
Jim Jarmusch has always sucked, and Only Lovers Left Alive was the most disappointing film of the 2010s.
“what is easily one of the most culturally significant shows of the era”
Yeah...no. After the penultimate episode, left-wing devotion to demographics over all mandates despising the show. Here’s the world you wanted; enjoy it.
Sansa’s disrespect to her uncle was in no way queenly. His words were more appropriate to the…
“period full stop”
A full stop IS a period, dummy.
“If the writers are actually arguing this, they’re ignoring the nuance of the story they’re telling, which has been a consistent problem with those segments.”
The nuance is not present. You are desperately imagining it in order to avoid admitting to yourself that you have wasted your life writing about a bad show.
Yes, but...writers are supposed to.
ROFL, look at McLevy shucking and jiving to try to save this train wreck of a show. Let me help you begin the healing process: YOU WRITE ABOUT A BAD SHOW FOR A LIVING, AND YOU’VE WASTED YOUR LIFE.
She engages in genocide because her nephew won’t have sex with her. YOU WRITE ABOUT A BAD SHOW FOR A LIVING. YOU HAVE WASTED YOUR LIFE. ROFLMAO
AV Club writing about a subject they clearly know nothing about?! Get outta here.
“denoting a troubling trend at the network”
You mean a troubing trend among viewers. If viewers weren’t abandoning the shows left and right, the network would have no motive to cancel them. Or do you mean to suggest they should be kept on as charity based on skin color?
Why does everyone act shocked each time someone has the bright idea of sticking the dragons with something? Did they expect everyone to just gape and get burned? This civilization had dragons in it for thousands of years; wouldn’t anti-dragon tactics and equipment have been a rather well-established part of Westerosi…
“Their antipathy no longer scans as simply the result of a preponderance of men in the Throneswriters room, thankfully”
...Is this really how you watch fiction? You sit and calculate whether you accept the content of a scene based on your feelings about the demographics of the writers?