Fucking "A Dance With Dragons". I know this last season of Game of Thrones was the weakest but now that I'm reading the source material they had to work with I'm amazed it was as cohesive and gripping as it was. This is a slog; a bloated, wheel-spinning, unedited mess that has made me never want to see the phrase…

I am hesitantly hopeful that OitNB will bounce back from what was an underwhelming (but still pretty good) season. I do get the feeling that the creative team sometimes thinks that people respond more to the comedy than they do the drama/realism, which seems like a miscalculation.

Looks pretty generic from that preview, but that is a stacked cast.

Because quite often his reviews were just as entertaining and fun to experience as the movies themselves. I know it's a touchy feely, unquantifiable thing that maybe someone who takes movie criticism seriously wouldn't care about, but you could just tell the guy loved films and wanted to share and express that love to…

He's normal person attractive, not Hollywood attractive. Just as political extremists hate those who are closest to them in ideology the most, the collection of ugly ass motherfuckers that is us hates Adam Driver.

Agreed. I'm one to easily get annoyed by reviews that focus on lack of diversity at the exclusion of actually talking about the content (don't think I'm in the minority there), but this was a well thought out review of why this comic collection failed to achieve one of its clearly stated goals, with a concise (if a…

Just like socialists who hate liberals, they've made everyone their enemy.

Now that you guys are caught up, can we get Shelby's binge reviews back?

This is oh, three years or so late, but I just listened to the first ten minutes of one of the live CBBs from Seattle in 2013 featuring PFT, Adomian, Heidecker, Taran Killam, and some local musician named John Roderick. Sounds like a stacked cast, right? Well too bad Roderick was maybe the douchiest podcast guest I've…

Yeah I said to myself "There's no way this is a good WTF" and deleted it instantly, but I'll have to check it out.

I wouldn't mind so much if those combos didn't always take up 90%of the Best Of lists. Which I realize is the first worldest problem ever but I stand by it.

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I didn't actually like that one, or the Grease Knows Eggs Show. Cody's right, the engineers are really best at cast-off one sentence phrases, leaning on them too much can't help but grind the show to a halt.

"Quick, we need to cast two of the most famous American figures of the 20th century!"

That's fair. The last 25 minutes has always felt like an epilogue to me.

Sometimes a work of fiction earns the big moments even if it fucked up a bunch of small ones along the way. Lost wasn't perfect but I still haven't felt like a show was such an important part of my life before or since.

The Richard Alpert episode is one of the finest episodes of that show, and by extension one of the best episodes of network television to that point.

Nope. I mean now there's a lot more teenagers who probably never saw it who use it as a punchline, but there were and are plenty of people with a whole range of opinions on it.

I disagree. I think the tonal shifts work in its favor. In another comment you said that Tarantino often "compliments the audience for its erudition instead of challenging their complacency", which is exactly the opposite of what the tonal whiplash in Django does, IMO. The mandingo scene or the execution of the…

Why was she so accepting of Bob in the flashback, then?