Did Barnes admit to her likely not being in on the plot? I thought that was the point of him getting so hung up on that “running away to an island, burning the ships”-comment in her letter - his insinuation that she was plotting an escape and the baby was an inconvenience. His final plea rests on the fact that she…

An ending that makes me look forward to watching the next season. There might not have been any exciting new twists and revelations, but as long as the character development is solid, I can do without fancy pyrotechnics in terms of plot mechanics. And I really liked that everyone had a bit of a character arc here, not…

nah, I don’t see much ambiguity here. There’s no point to the scene with Perry and Pete on the bridge unless that last move Perry was talking about was about bribing the juror.

Part of me thinks Alice is a true believer, that miracle idea was caused by the epilepsy and embraced out of genuine faith and it is indeed fucking up everyone’s plans. In another show maybe the mother would then kidnap another child to fake the miracle to save face, but it think this Birdy is too down-to-earth to try…

Oh, I agree that the movie wants the audience to dislike Tracy too. Still, as a teacher I don’t relate to Jim, because real-life students don’t get their narrative arcs mapped out by an omniscient narrator wisely directing audience sympathies and therefore real-life teachers shouldn’t hold too much stock in…

As as teacher, I think my job is to help students accomplish their goals, but I also understand that I can’t really choose their goals for them, and I probably shouldn’t get to anyway. If that goal turns out to be “authorizing war crimes in the future”, sure, that would bother me, but I also think it’s a bit early to…

This would be a valid point if the criticism was based on genre snobbery or something. But so far all the reviews indicate that the film deviates wildly from everything that people praised about the book, so it’s not a terribly wild guess that someone who liked the source material would be disappointed.

Honestly, I’ve rarely heard lyrics with less room for ambiguity - every single line is about systemic racism; you really have to listen with only half an ear to miss it. Which a lot of people sure did! There’s a lot going on that could distract you from paying attention to the lyrics. But the song was mocked - among,…

Honestly, I think French comedies are usually pretty awful already; maybe there wasn’t much to ruin here.  I love the sound of the language but the humour is rarely doing it for me; maybe I just don’t get it (probably not because it’s so understated, though..)

Haven’t seen the movie, but from the review, I’m getting the sense Harry’s inner conflict is supposed to be the whole “grappling with mortality” thing. He’s only dating younger woman for the same reason most of these guys do - he somehow thinks their youth rubs off onhim. He doesn’t want to date older women because…

It really was! Setting new standards for fascinating, multi-dimensional villains for kid me, which mad me wrinkle my nose at the more snidely-whiplash type cartoon villains I had encountered before, although in retrospect, those are clearly the more realistic ones.

On the one hand, yes, he’s still a bit bland compared to other characters; I see the cause for concern. On the other hand, I once used to think that about Josh Hartnett too. It’s easy to discount a pretty face a bit too quickly. The actor seeming lost in many scenes is not immediately alarming to me, because his…

I mean I get how it can be annoying in a more contemporary settings, but as an Austrian, I have to say that at that particular point in time, most Germans and Austrians really were Nazis, there’s just no getting around it. Being a Nazi was just an extremly common, banal thing easily compatible with the most ordinary,…

In this case the Nazi thing makes a lot of sense for the setting and the themes, and I also think it’s a good idea to tell that sort of story right now, very topical. I’m not 100% sold on the show yet either, but if your German acquaintance is tired of Nazi Germans she should maybe focus on media set in other time…

Yeah, I think the Southpark stance “both sides are equally bad” is pretty complacent (and to me, it definitely read as completely unnuanced “both sides are equally bad”, because it’s so strongly mixed with “caring about anything at all is for losers”), but I don’t mind a pretty similar message in something like…

I do think some of his ideas caused real damage though - eg. confusing male privilege envy with penis envy or asserting that all those girls and women reporting sexual abuse in therapy had to be making it up/projecting and basing entire theories on that assumption.

I admittedly don’t watch the show but from what I know about eating disorders in real life I highkey suspect that whatever issues with eating that character’s supposed to have, just not buying her that ice cream wouldn’t have solved them. These things tend to be rather more complicated than that.

Probably! I would never claim to have a full overview of the myriad factions of the left. I guess I could have phrased this more precisely: While bloodthirstiness might be found in surprising places if you look closely enough, that sort of gleeful revelling in it exhibited in the trailer is not generally something one…

I found “Knives out” way more plausible about the faults of liberals and how they actually manifest.

My impression of the trailer: these distinctions are academical to whoever made this movie; the portrayal just marries liberal talking points with tankie-bloodthirstiness.