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In fairness, the odds of someone at the AVClub having seen Solaris are immensely greater than for any of Yakovlev's films (and I say that as a fan). None of his movies made much of an impact in the states, whereas discussion about Solaris is pretty common here.

David Mitchell may be the greatest novelist in the English language currently in his prime.

If anything it's changed the episode, too: now you think, Damn, she really got away with the better of the two options, even if this guy was a poor alcoholic.

In a more standard episode, we could’ve expected a few conversations between Peyton and his captors, maybe a sense of why he did what he did, a rant about Confederate pride, and probably some lovey-dovey stuff between him and his wife

Wow. My only complaint about this season is that they didn't have more time to spend on the villains, who were all individually interesting (how often does that happen?). Easily the best complete season in the franchise, even if it doesn't reach the heights of certain individual episodes (I'm looking at you, "Ember…

I love "Nitemare Hippy Girl"; one of my favorites he ever did.

Talk to Her is a stone cold masterpiece. Many people prefer All About My Mother of his more recent films, but TTH is, for me, the best thing he's ever done.

Of his recent films, I'd be more interested in how Tie Me Up! looks in light of The Skin I Live In, which more or less revisits some of these issues/setup (albeit with radically different reasons and results.)

Holy crap.

The music cue right at that moment may be the high-water mark of Tarantino-as-craftsman. Just… perfect.

And I love the "Does she know her daughter is still alive?" scene!

I really loved this episode (except for the direction), though I can't disagree with any of your racial critique, Sonia. I think some of the users are misreading you to say that the show needs to have more POC instead of "the POC in the show only exist to further certain white characters' development", which is a…

Yeah, not having commerical breaks is a huge boon to the show: he goes so much further in depth than TDS, and it's sometimes exhilarating.

Heh, you and I are never going to be on the same page on this show… I thought this was the worst-directed episode. That panic attack was sub-basic cable editing, slo-mo effects, and slurred audio. Everything else about the episode I loved, though.

This may be too optimistic, but I've been wondering if the Earth Queen v. Republic City discussion (the world is changing, monarchies are going out of style) is going to be echoed in Korra v. the Zaheer gang: a single avatar chosen by spiritual succession v. a more democratically spread version of bending powers.…

I dunno, I mostly loved this episode (with the exception of the mumbo jumbo that's developing around Christine, which seems like it comes from another show entirely.)

I said Willy Wonka was, yes. The "ick" factor of that performance was a major discussion when the film was released (especially vis-a-vis its echoes of Michael Jackson, intended or not.) Jim Emerson at Scanners collected dozens of examples of the Michael Jackson comparison, with varying levels of horror and discomfort.

It depends on where his plot goes from here, but for me, and for this episode, it's still well-within interesting territory. Then again, the whole Job-ian theodicy narrative is like catnip for me (oddly, since I'm an atheist), and the way that people of faith struggle with these issues can be compelling stuff,…

My experience was exactly opposite: only the last third of Boonmee sucked me in completely (believe it or not, the succession of still photographs did it for me), but TM and Syndromes won me over completely even on my home television.