I hate movies whose stories exist solely on an allegorical level, which is very true of Mother! but I thought it was still a great movie-going experience. The sound design is amazing and some of the set pieces are just gonzo bravura filmmaking. It’s not something I’m dying to revisit but as an artistic theme park ride…

Y: Tho?

There is no way this ends well for Kendall. He’s transitioned from dead-eyed puppet to dead-eyed maniac. Everything about him this episode — the way he talks, laughs, pleads with everyone—is completely unhinged. Also, this show really does love putting him next to reflective surfaces. Kind of like a constant reminder…

Alas, it’s not “Y: The Last Monkey.”

The cynic in me has a nagging suspicion that execs don’t think a show starring almost exclusively women can be successful.

Y: The Last Season.

I’ve seen some speculation that whatever contract FX signed many years ago meant that they HAD to produce the show in some form, and now that their obligation has been fulfilled they have no need to keep producing the series.

I am more excited for this than almost anything coming out of the live action side of DC.

I really enjoyed the show but yeah, I did not like that twist at all. I think it’s just about possible to square it with what came before, but the mental effort it takes to do so is hugely distracting and takes you out of it, and it doesn’t really add anything to the story either. It also ruins one of the show’s…

He didn’t have plans for a second season, but seems to have changed his mind. Maybe he realised that the real world sucked and wanted back in?

Coming to Netflix in 2022:

It’s pretty obvious it’s going to be The Social Network 2: Zuck Harder.

That was one of the most interesting aspects of the book: The duel itself had an extensive (for the time, at least) historical record, the trial only slightly less so, but figuring out the movements of these individuals to wind up where they were at the time the accusation was levied required Jager to piece together a…

I’m seeing a lot of leather and bare heads for something that takes place during the Little Ice Age. Medieval people wore big hoods, miles of wool and big stupid hats! Embrace the big hats!

I think it makes perfect sense to present alternative ways a narrative could’ve gone that might have worked better. It helps a critic articulate more clearly where they see problems in the work, and it helps readers (including writers of fiction) understand alternative ways of telling a story that might work better.

This! And another thing (sorry to pile on Nate, but not really), he has no idea what it means to be good manager. He thinks managing the team is solely about developing game strategy. But look what he did with the False 9.

At some point these criticisms come off like the readers are just upset you aren’t validating their opinion.

I guess there’s a fine line right between this “fanfiction” and valid criticism issue though, right? Like, I found Loki profoundly disappointing and tiresome because it seemed to be setting up such an interesting story in the first two episodes, and none of it paid off. Often, part of criticism is saying, “There is a…

I ‘m seeing a pattern here that I’ve seen elsewhere (including on this site), and I’d like to draw attention to it:

That’s a fair point on Keeley, but this is why the choice to suddenly drop all that in the epilogue makes no sense: Roy hadn’t been privy to any of these conversations/phone calls? Or her stress level? The nature of their conflict is really where my confusion lied, and to whether it was expressly necessary to throw…