No way did that woman ever do cocaine. Every single person in my evangelical church had a wild story about sex and drugs in their youths, and I don’t think ninety percent of them had ever seen a woman naked.

I really hope they don’t get rid of their library of classic films, Studio Ghibli, etc... it sucks how when corporations are seeking to maximize profits, real works of art always seem to be the first things to go.

as the show goes on, I would argue that it surpasses Breaking Bad.

We absolutely need to see Tom Bombadil. He even gets cut from most of the radio adaptations. With a TV series, there’s no excuse. Give us a full episode in the Old Forest.

I keep telling people that whenever Marcus Mumford says the f-word in a song, he says it as though he’s never said it before and feels weird about it.

when they started analysing all the possible ways a conversation could go wrong, it felt like seeing inside of my own head.

if only we still had River Phoenix!

the 1,700-page extended edition of All These Years is incredible. it's like a whole different book. 

I had never seen pictures of the Brothers Duffer and... no one warned me that they were extremely handsome??

as a longtime Endeavour fan this sounds like extremely my thing 

I’ve mentioned this before, but in the run-up to Avatar, Slate ran an essay arguing that “Avatar is going to suck” because “cats with human boobs suck.” They predicted that audiences would avoid the film, preferring instead to see Sherlock Holmes.

the running fan theory is that Maverick actually dies in the opening ten minutes and the rest of the film is a dying hallucination. I’m not entirely convinced - I think this theory worked better when it was used to explain the end of Minority Report - but it would explain a lot of weird things about the movie, like…

I was agnostic about the third season but honestly the fourth has been the best one so far.

my sister and I are so excited to see this. AND it has Nathan Fielder in it!

Mrs Vanderbilt is great, though I’m chuffed that Band on the Run made number one. It’s one of the few post-Beatles songs that could stand alongside his Beatles tracks, and it always makes me think of that scene in Boyhood where Ethan Hawke is forcing his kids to listen to it.

Check My Machine is great. I love playing it for my mom and then, when she demands that I turn it off, revealing that it’s a song by Paul McCartney. It’s like Frontier Psychiatrist a decade and a half before The Avalanches.

I’m glad we as a culture have moved past thinking that John was the Serious Beatle. Paul was every bit the genius that John was; he was our Mozart.

the Matt Smith years were pretty inconsistent but Heaven Sent might be the best episode the show’s ever done.

I can’t recommend the novel enough, it’s one of my favorite books of recent years - a sort of cross between Doyle, Stoker, Wilkie Collins and Drood-era Dickens.

okay but how can you possibly replace Kyle Chandler? I love Alice Eve but the original show only worked because of his immense charm.