*faints dead away*

Put like that it's almost a form of exhibitionism, isn't it?

How to Get Away With Lena Dunham

Dunno - I've seen things get pretty rough around here when she is discussed before.

*Mussolini's Wild Ride breaks down half way*

Annoying thing is that this, not surveillance, is the big thing that is presented as the way evil maintains control in 1984 (a text both sides like to cite).

That kind of makes sense - if you take Bane as a Robespierre figure who uses the revolution to murder for kicks and Batman as the displaced aristocracy who are welcomed back when things get too bad.

'North American Scum' is suspiciously similar to Pete Shelley's 'Homosapien' as well.

It was like something that the evil defence attorney of the week in a Law & Order episode would do.

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Which is odd when you think how openly and brazenly xenophobic the presenters were.

New series just began in the UK a few hours ago.

It is not used as a slur here at all, more that the writers seem to be suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Yes! Even before the show became the mess it currently is, I was annoyed by the characterisation. Sherlock is such a charmless and nasty lead that it's hard to want to watch him, and even Watson is needlessly bitter and snarky.

I love it. I'm not a diehard Holmes fan, so the differences don't really bother me. I think that Miller and Liu are my favourite Holmes and Watson and I really like that the show isn't afraid to really take a psychological look at Holmes instead of him being the magical ubermench that he is in Sherlock.

This episode was really bad. The last series more or less turned me off the show, but I was willing to give it another go (in fact I wanted to like it) but all this was was yet another round of lazy postmodernism and 'meta' with intelligence-insulting fanservice that was so in love with its own cleverness that it…

Dekker is ace, but he died a while back, didn't he?

Finished The Luminaries which I was not expecting to love as much as I did. That is to say for some reason I didn't think an award-winning 800 page neo-Victorian novel would be so engrossing. I tore through the thing. The only issue was that the novel's structure meant that the last few chapters had to be incredibly…

It sure is nice to be able to go and see a film late into its run and the film to not be so worn out as to be barely watchable.

I especially enjoyed it as I'm one of the few people who's never read/watched it before, so I didn't know the twist. Really well acted and shot. I loved that they played up the thriller aspect and made it incredibly tense