I don't even know if she's trying not to lose. I think she may be trying to make sure NO ONE can win. She's burning down the stadium at halftime, because she knows what's coming.

Honestly, I think the problem is just that it's too short. The tone of the film borrows heavily from the whole Mystic River/Gone Baby Gone/Gone Girl school, but it's a good 30 minutes, minimum, shorter than the shortest of those three. Holofcener's dramatic material is clever, but never has room to grow into a…

I'll be honest, I pretty specifically avoided that one.

There are a lot of reasons - it's trite, awful character work, the lack of understanding about basic drama, shoddy action, a bad backstory.

A combination of Earth One, Grounded and whatever the fuck he was doing on Wonder Woman. Dude seriously imploded.

The Batman one isn't good, but its existence isn't embarrassing, like the Superman one is. That's truly abysmal.

(To answer more thoroughly: Superman: Earth One Vol 1 is truly, almost spectacularly abysmal, perhaps THE worst Superman stories of the last few decades. Batman: Earth One has Gary Frank art going for it, but otherwise it's… kind of okay? It'd probably make, like, the Top 50 Batman stories of the last five years, to…

No.

I'm not really sure, to be honest. The election arc has been pretty thoroughly excellent, but this reviewer just… really dislikes it. I understand why - it isolates Alicia - but I have to disagree with her overall assessment. It's not the same show it was a year ago… but that's not inherently a bad thing. "More of the…

God dammit. I just want to watch this. I was really close to doing so, and now I am far away from it.

Seriously, I didn't even know what this was about. I just knew they were going to be in it, and I was going to give it a shot.

You had to go to Sue's Salads to get it, and I don't think Pawnee was very sympathetic to people who ate at Sue's Salads.

This was… literally the opposite of 'tell don't show'. It was 44 minutes of showing.

You're objectively wrong.

There ain't no party like a Leslie Knope party, 'cause a Leslie Knope party is the platonic ideal of that particular party.

Not to mention the fact that the Oscars are typically the only way to get some people to watch anything but blockbusters. Get my parents to watch awesome film Nightcrawler? Not a chance. Get my parents to watch Best Original Screenplay nominee Nightcrawler? Yeah, I can sell that.

Do you seriously think any of them are interested enough in art to realize this film even exists?

Oh, I'm in the same boat. Pulido wasn't a good fit for Fraction's retro-action inspired tone and Hawkeye already had such a distinctive color palette that Pulido's brief arc felt like a huge break in the reality of the book.

I don't get it, man - Pulido's work on Shulkie was some next-level stuff - but, hey, no worries. Guess it's just not your thing.

Actually, Infinity almost reads like Hickman's attempt on something like The Great Darkness Saga now that you've pointed that out. But yeah, after that he backed down from the Legion concept considerably, which… is fine. It wasn't really working for him anyway.