So Hotel did that Freak Show thing about calling the most psychopathic male characters the closest to "American ideals" in their violence and narcissism, which is cool and all except no matter how many times they say it our knee-jerk reaction is to look for individual causes (like with Tate's rampage) rather than at…

Oh yeah, Alex Longshadow had a whole arc about trying to fight the white man's power and it was a rare glimpse of Native American tribe struggles.

In both cases a woman's struggle ends with her being taken pity on by a man in power, while all the effort she's expanded into accomplishing a goal is show to not be enough. It's an unfortunate implication that success in this world for women must be bargained for by men who appear like rescuers, rather than women…

No. To get away from patriarchal implications it should have been her sister coming into the room, maybe telling her she believes her and offering her hand to show solidarity.

No. It's an original script.

DGD ends with the woman finally finding the guy who can help her dreams come true after a whole bunch of missteps and him saying something like "If you had just met me earlier we could have avoided all this"

Uh, no?

Come on, correlation not causation etc…

Dunno if I'd call that "guts"

I was always bothered how Repulsion ends with the most patronizing guy literally sweeping her off her feet like she was Maureen O'Hara in Dance Girl Dance.

You mean "the last time I had fun watching You're The Worst"?

I was not prepared for how that novel would gross me out simply through the precise description of what body parts he was sawing off…

I have to think that having Gretchen dress as a female character who is known for her fierceness and struggles is an interesting commentary on how so often being "strong" is seen as important in making a character compelling. But Gretchen basically spends the entire episode coping, yet her past follows each scene so…

Is this a joke because of your hat?

Yep. The whole "There is no safe word" thing is also true, some people who go into them end up breaking down for real.

That de-gloving scene and the "knobbling" one are the two scenes King has written that truly made me unable to keep reading for fear of what I would see next.

When I read Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho I became numb to the descriptions of truly sickening sex and bodily dismemberment, something I didn't expect being a fan of horror and with experience with all sort of gruesome stuff. I'm not positive, but given it's reputation (and how the murder scenes were taken from…

While I really love Cabin in the woods, and would probably defend it just like you, I did find this conversation to be a little leading, especially the "you sound like you just don't like the damn movie" line.

No mention of Taissa Farmiga? I recognized her face, but her manner was so self-assured and without a hint of the snark she usually has that I didn't think it was her for a sec.

No, I'm good.