Not confronting and challenging toxic misogyny is perpetuating it. If your friend was sexually harassing women, you speak up, you don’t say “well, otherwise he’s a nice guy.”

Exactly. I wonder how many people defend Ninja about this behavior, but mock Mike Pence and Kirk Cameron for doing the exact same thing. There is literally no difference. Misogyny is misogyny.

It’s very interesting that he seems to understand how children can be engaged with racism and white privilege if they are raised online and not engaging with better social education, but can’t seem to make the mental bridge to the exact same issue with misogyny and gender equity.

They totally wasted Dourif’s desire to follow her father in playing mostly batshit roles by giving her a wacky little 45 seconds in the show.

Boone is definitely going to become known for "works cheap" 

Totally! Guess they skimped on the budget. Again. 

The choice to have him communicate via Frannie instead of writing was a really poor one that took away from his internal character, I think. 

He also gets adapted a lot because he famously sells adaptation rights to his short stories for a dollar to students, which probably endeared him to two or three generations of filmmakers. 

It's usually considered one of, if not the best Stephen King books, and he's one of the most read authors in the US. Not sure why it's surprising. 

I mean, it’s not just logic and geography. The people who go to Vegas and Boulder are doing so specifically because they're having dreams. There are other people who aren't going to either of those places. 

I agree, but it says something about this series that Cullen is the best portrayed character in it. 

Is this the Avclub version of tweeting through it? 

It’s wild how they could get developmental disability so right with Tom, and so wrong with Trashcan Man (who is definitely depicted as developmentally disabled, not mentally ill) that it makes me think that it was Ezra Miller’s personal choice.

I remember seeing them at Blipfest back in 2008 or something, and then again during one of the worst heat waves in recent NYC history, like 2011 or so. Great fun live band.

But the original mini series is shorter yet gives the characters plenty of development. The biggest problem here is that they’re centering Harold and Nadine, who (in the end) are merely bit players. My guess is that Harold and Nadine have more lines than all the other “main” characters put together.

He was in a rage not just because he couldn’t find out the other spy, but that he had already lost 2 of the spies in ways he couldn’t foresee or prevent, and it’s about that time that he notices that things are starting to go “flaky around the edges.” He’s aware, and trying to ignore, that he’s losing.

I’m pretty sure the book is broken up into exactly those three parts, as acts.

In the books Flagg really doesn’t know what he’s actually doing there. They note that he sort of just appears during the civil unrest of the 60s, and has spend the decades fomenting any sort of unrest that he can - anarchist, right wing, drug running, it doesn’t matter. He doesn’t report to anyone, he just knows his…

But does show Larry have Lucy Swann? His reason in the book for rejecting Nadine makes absolute sense - he’s living with Lucy and was rejected by Nadine long before. But on the show it seems like he’s single and turning her down for sort of odd reasons given that they’re still living together.

Side note - Glynis Oliver was one of the main colorists for Marvel during the Bronze Age.