Personally I think the fake serial killer and newspaper plots in The Wire hold up really well, and ended up being quite prescient. 

This is a deeply stupid article.

If you're down to nitpick my obvious point then I'll counternitpick by pointing out how commonplace it once was to release chapters bit by bit in papers and such before we settled on the modern conception of a novel: it's how Dickens published his work, for instance. That modern books have chapters that release all at…

You are fundamentally unfit to review this show, or any other MCU property. Not only did you ignore the obvious hints of where the show was headed (included from the trailers before it even premiered), you miss that WandaVision, the first such show, was in fact largely a beautiful stand-alone meditation on grief, with…

“That’s the problem, though: If the upcoming season finale is really good, you won’t be able to recommend it to someone who hasn’t seen at least one or two of the other episodes that set it up.”

“Why are they wasting all this time on Jessica Jones doing superhero stuff when we could be watching a lesbian divorce drama about some of the secondary characters?”

Hi, I’m Sam Barsanti and I have no idea how the MCU works nor what its actual appeal is and am completely out of touch with everything and my simple nature makes me angry.

“It’s like you’ve actively ignored what is playing out in front of your own eyes only to pretend to be surprised and disappointed when the things teased for weeks play out exactly like they’ve been teased to.”

You also have to criticize the work that exists, not the one you wanted them to make.

Sam, just.....move on, and let someone else review this show. You’re clearly not having a good time, and every comment section is about you, & not the show.

You keep leaning into the idea that the show was supposed to offer standalone stories, even though the ENTIRE PREMISE is that it’s riffing on movies we’ve already seen.

Do yourself a favour and don’t watch Inhumans.

You also have to criticize the work that exists, not the one you wanted them to make. The show established The Watcher and explained his role and vows, and then gradually showed his disenchantment with those limitations. Yes, it was obvious almost immediately that Uatu would interfere with events, but they did the…

But if every story is just part of the next story, why bother paying attention to any story at all?

No, it never seemed like this, because the MCU has never once suggested, in word or action, that it was going to do anything discrete when they’re playing with stories that have been heavily interconnected for decades. Especially once they realized that not only had they figured out the formula for an shared universe…

I think what’s crazy is that they teased a crossover in the trailers for this show, and you have spent weeks in your reviews where one of your complaints is about how they’re standalone episodes and don’t seem to be crossing over only to complain now that it has laid that cross-over out. It’s like you’ve actively…

What a horrible take. They made a decision that’s paid off 1000x over to have it be a shared universe. It’s not that they can’t, it’s after 13 years now, that’s just how they’re doing it. They’ll introduce the Eternals and Shang Chi who are unrelated except in passing cameo’s to the last 13 years and that’s not…

I’d highly recommend reading the article linked in this one. It’s a bit more thorough. This article is just a fucking hit piece that cherry picks the absolute worst takes on the whole situation.

Hillary would still lose.