Thanks for your interesting reply!
"Bigots don't need tv shows to be bigots" is, however, a pretty strong misconception of the tremendous (!) influence of media on implicit and explicit attitudes. More often than not, the TV is educator, cultivation device, and friend, all-in-one. It's the first interlocutor to tell…

"That's what I was thinking about those faggy weirdos all along!"
…said thousands of bigots in unison. Thanks, show!

I disagree. Not because, as other people argue around here, "the Mist is amateurish" or "the reveal wasn't executed cleverly". I actually feel like that's a lazy argument; you either accept the trope of a homicidal LGBTQ psychopath or you don't. Case in point: Orange Is The New Black is a show that has *significantly*…

Game of Thrones S07E01 - giving you "How to break viewers' immersion 101" with yours truly, Ed Sheeran.

Anything above D- would be too generous for this pile of crap, and this is coming from a passionate defender and fan of the show.

First episode of the season that's clear "C" material to me, maybe even below.

I had legitimately 100% forgotten Bennett existed, and I’m honestly mad the show reminded me.

I had to bite my tongue for several days now (as many others around here, I'm sure), but yes, all of the above.

The Sun/Lito love motel scene has good chances to remain among my personal Top 10 TV Moments in 2017.

Michelle f'ckin Yeoh!!!

First things first - the scene you chose for your last entry is pretty near-perfect, and it moves me everytime I watch Gondry's masterpiece. Regarding the "Scenic routes" column itself, I want to say that I really enjoyed its concept; I feel like it gave people something to think and debate about on a regular basis.…

What I really adore about The Good Fight is that it looks even more polished and cinematic than its "mother show". Most of the time I feel like I'm watching a multi-million dollar legal thriller, with its high contrasts, desaturated colors, and sinister performances.

That's exactly how I felt (and if I had scrolled down earlier I could have saved myself the trouble of writing a comment so similar to yours) - instant double-check whether there were actually more than 10 episodes. While there were so many dangling threads, it was pretty anti-climactic at the same time.

While I also enjoyed the finale (as well as this show in general), I have to say that this episode felt weirdly anti-climactic to me. I found myself instantly checking Wikipedia if there were some episodes left. Maybe it was the way Barrymore played the season's last scene - Sheila at the phone: "One of us will be…

Seriously though, not a big fan of the fact that Anezka goes back to this insanely stereotypical East European "accent" (complete with broken grammar) when talking in private. So she's able to use perfect English while faking her identity, but needs to talk like a borderline-racist caricature any other time? I find…

Ep. 274 in the beloved series "Feeling like the trashiest AV Club reader around":
Am I the only one who took notice of the lack of …um…well, boners… in the scene where all soldiers received their nightly battle reward? Not my greatest moment as sophisticated TV viewer, I guess. Uhhh…amazing social commentary, too!

I've seen some debates like these, and opponents of animal violence - who are okay with human violence - often bring up the implicit assumption that humans are never 'free of sin' or could in some way deserve the horrors inflicted upon them, whereas an animal is this universal symbol of innocence and defenselessness.
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I feel like pigs (and the whole slaughter process) have been turned into this popular horror trope for a while now, and the immense success of indie horror game "Amnesia - A Machine for Pigs" has certainly accelerated this.
As another commenter has pointed out, people might feel a closer connection to this species…

I came here to confirm my assumption that Whiterose's mandarin was rather bad, as I felt it sounded a lot more choppy than what I've heard from native speakers so far. Sad to read I was right (thanks though, commenters below!).

I just found out that the creators of this show noted in an interview that they were not only inspired by "E.T." (kind of obvious), but also the anime "Elfen Lied" – I love this, because I felt reminded of this Japanese series so much and kept wondering if it was just my weird imagination (especially as I just…