I now know why you cry…

Let's not forget the initial shocker where the film's (supposedly) main character dies 45 minutes into a 2 hour film.

Who? The polar bears or humans?

A hundred years from now there will be a documentary called "Escape From New York".

100% more inconvenient

The real-life Leckie was prompted to write about the actual experience of war after seeing a WW2 musical. Apparently there wasn't too much signing and dancing in the Pacific theatre.

SPOILERS GOD DAMMIT!

It's just an opinion but I don't think any portrayal of war can get away without addressing those issues. Band of Brothers was a very linear story and it was largely focused on the vital importance of camaraderie to overcome the emotional/physical intensity of war (the early episodes hammer the point home pretty well…

As a matter of dissenting opinion, I preferred The Pacific. Where Band of Brothers seemed like an expanded vision of what Spielberg presented in Saving Private Ryan, The Pacific was less invested in the archetypal heroics of American war narratives and placed much greater emphasis on the psychological, physical and…

The Mesrine films were really well done. I look forward to seeing this on cable.

I'm a fan of the short intro, too. Hannibal's is great not so much for the visual, which is compelling, but for the sound - it's like the audio equivalent of Hitchcock's "vertigo" shot (you know, the one where he zooms in/out and moves the camera in the opposite direction). Also, I always found The Shield intro a…

If we ignore how people feel about their age, 41 is actually the average midpoint of a female's lifespan living in the United States (42 in Canada) according to World Health Organization 2013 stats. If age is a measure of how long someone has lived, it would be accurate to say 41 is, on average, middle age. However,…

Ditto but where my sister preferred "Spiderwebs" (the pinch harmonics were fun to play on guitar but I digress), I was more a fan of "Sunday Morning". However, despite not being a big fan of the band (though I do appreciate their musicianship), I continue to like "Hella Good", which is a hella good song.

Gey sera, sera.

Satan's penis, get thee behind me!

He spun it from his own silk, straight from the abdomen.

I'm not as sweet as Lorde fans.

No, Lord fans.

I agree about the trendline, though it could say something about the trajectory of episode quality throughout a season. Again, not a very meaningful description. In terms of "noise", welcome to the real world? :) What's really missing is the ability to compare two or more shows, inferential stats, etc.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't jitter plotting simply shift data points ever so slightly to avoid overlap in overplotted data? Given that the data for TV graphs is necessarily serialized, there's nothing being obscured. The slope on display in these graphs is simply a function of change in at least two X-Y…