Abrams is one of several producers, but he was not the showrunner or primary creative voice.

This show has some really powerful individual moments, but it never coheres as a whole. Like, apparently this was all building up to Atticus sacrificing himself? That really does not feel like a natural culmination of what came before. The final scene is a confrontation between Dee and Christina, who barely interacted…

I don’t know how anyone could argue that TWW “changed” liberals, seeing as it came on the air at a time when liberalism was already nearing the end of a fairly lengthy losing streak (notwithstanding that Clinton had managed to win two presidential elections) in the policy domain.  Indeed, it was only toward the end of…

The West Wing Thing is pretty ridiculous in its attempts to put the most negative possible spin on every aspect of the show.

The characters on the The West Wing worked to raise taxes on the rich (and to avoid lowering them) a number of times, from what I recall. There was a whole episode about how dumb it is to get rid of the estate tax, for instance.

The backlash to Titanic was chock-a-block with bad faith arguments, my favourite being all the complaining about how they chose to center the story on two fictional characters and supposedly disrespecting all the real people who died as a result — as if Titanic was the first piece of historical fiction to have a…

The only people in the final scene are those who died in the sinking.

The great-grandmother’s death I felt didn’t quite land because of both the lingering extensively on obvious CGI (a problem with a lot of modern TV productions, I find; also film, though to a lesser extent).  I wasn’t the biggest fan of the poem either, but then, at this point I’ve just accepted that the show’s music…

“(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life” won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and hardly a month goes by that I don’t randomly get the urge to rewatch it on YouTube.

I think Lovecraft Country is a notable step down from the book (a book that I wasn’t even a huge fan of).

This was entertaining, though I have the same issue with this as a had with The Favourite, in that they’re using popular-but-false historical characterizations that were developed in the service of dubious agendas in the name of comedy; but whereas repeating all the Duchess of Marlborough’s smears as facts has…

I was too young to see this in theatres at the time, but my aunt gave me a VHS copy for Christmas 1996, and I probably watched it 50 times. A gloriously fun movie.

The one thing in Toy Story that feels a bit out of step with the Pixar style as it would develop subsequently is the way music is used on the soundtrack. That “I Will Go Sailing No More” song that plays over Buzz’s post-realization crisis, especially.

Certainly by any real-world moral standard it would be equally bad.

I believe Yahima would be what we today call intersex, not trans.

Woo, seeing Ammonite this Saturday!

Yeah, I really liked the first episode, but every subsequent episode has been scattershot, and it often feels like they’re rushing when they should be building suspense.

Can’t remember this segment in the book, but its been awhile since i’ve read it.

His ridiculous good luck is the joke, though.

Forrest’s success is supposed to be satirical, though (even while the movie obviously likes him so you’re not wrong to want him to succeed).