I like a lot of things about the show, but I have to agree that it is deeply flawed. I agree that Count Olaf is played too silly and not threatening enough. I'm also feel conflicted about the way the show portrays the Boudelaire children.

Yes. Judging from the review and the trailer, they talk to each other pretty often in the movie…why do neither of them acknowledge that they were married? Isn't the point of being in a support group to address and work through grief together, not pretend that you don't know your ex wife???

No, it's real. The journalist who directed and narrates the film is a New Zealand reporter who usually writes fun, pop culture pieces about people with unusual hobbies. He started out investigating "underground tickling" with the hope of writing a funny/fluff piece, and ended up uncovering something incredibly gross…

The new Touche Amore record is also a concept album about the death of a loved one.

I loved the documentary Tickled, about the world of professional online "endurance tickling" (there's a lot more to the movie, but I don't want to give it away). After watching that movie, I think a lot more about how easily people can make systems that exploit other people. It's creepy and unexpected and way too…

I saw it as a comment on the idea that making friends and being in a group is a way to gain power so that you become someone who can exclude others, and don't have to feel bad about others excluding you. The "cutesy" act is a way of seeming untouchable, even when you are being kind of a b*tch. It's all very middle…

idk, I went to a college next to a famous conservatory, and one of the professors was fired for saying the n word. Apparently he had said things like that before, but no one had stepped forward.

I think he means that it was directed by the Whiplash director, not that the conductor from Whiplash has a bit part.

I think he means that it was directed by the Whiplash director, not that the conductor from Whiplash has a bit part.

I think he means that it was directed by the Whiplash director, not that the conductor from Whiplash has a bit part.

Sorry I made a noob mistake. I meant I read the manga. I haven't seen the anime. It would be nice to revisit the manga as an adult, and see if it makes more sense (I didn't dislike it, I just thought it was weird).

I also think I am in the minority of people who did not like the ending to Horace and Pete.

If I had to add anything, Bali Ha'i from Better Call Saul to best episodes.

Great list

I read that anime as a kid, and all I remember was that it was incredibly strange, like being on an amusment park ride in another country based on an adventure story I'd never read.

Same here. I've started watching the Americans about three times and I've never even gotten to the end of season 1. I know I'm going to get gutted for this, but it reminds me so much of Mad Men and other historical prestige dramas from a few years ago, it's kind of distracting. I feel bad because I think my inability…

I need some advice. Should I continue Westworld? So far I am five or six episodes in. I am invested in the character of Dolores and am intrigued to see how robots develop real human personalities. (One of my complaints so far is that the robots seem too human, which distracts from the "How human are they? What do they…

Here's mine…

Man tests videogame that shows him his worst nightmare. He is stuck in Europe forever with no money. Cut to credits.

The ending kind of saved it for me, since I saw the they're-really-people twist coming a mile away. I predicted that they would hammer in the message even more by making Stripe's fellow soldiers see him as a "roach."