Yeah but they're going for the winking "Don't we look alike even though I'm barely doing an impression?" thing that they already did with Fey/Palin.

Yeah the jump scare shit definitely got tedious after a while.

I've only played Doom 3, I liked it well enough but it wasn't really anything special. What was it that fans wanted that it didn't provide?

I want to get into new music but god damn if it isn't discouraging to see all these people I've never heard of described as if I already should. Like of course this guy's famous "knack for intricate compositions" remains, you know, that knack for intricate compositions we all know and love?

So praising the Star Wars prequels wasn't Armond Whitey enough, huh?

Nope. There's one genuinely funny character/performance (Thad), but the show absolutely thinks of its female characters exactly the same way its male characters do, and every other character besides Thad is unfunny, stupid, and annoying. It's a garbage show no matter how many contrarians want to make a name for…

Got no problem with that.

Scott kind of seems to have a pathological need to keep everything canon and rehash it for "new listeners" (ignoring the fact that any new listener would turn off a new Wompler episode no matter how much legwork he was doing). And so some of the characters (like Wompler) seem to spend more time going over their…

I mean most of the season was deviations so you're technically correct. But that also means the best changes were usually deviations: paring down Tyrion's journey and removing all the boring chaff, eliminating the Harzoos and refocusing on the Sons of the Harpy as a shorthand for all the boring antagonists in Meereen,…

Eh well I disagree but I don't think we're going to convince one another.

This past season faced the Herculean tasks of adapting by far the weakest material from the books, as well as having to transition into moving on from the source material since said weak books were the last to be published since the author's output has slowed down. So it was very uneven plot-by-plot compared to…

Fair criticism.

Eh….. not really. Both versions just basically mope around a while and act like the stereotypical version of how GRRM thinks a popular girl would act. At least Turner is able to make her feel like an actual human being.

I think it's easier to warm to her more quickly in the show because Sophie Turner gives her a lot of humanity (and has gotten better over time), and because GRRM isn't great at writing three-dimensional female characters who aren't tomboys.

Yeah I'm being a curmudgeon, I know. But there's gotta be a middle ground between "99% alt-comedy podcasts" and "99% facile social commentary podcasts".

And at the end of the day it's a woman who starred in an ad for whipped cream vodka shot on her private jet at the height of the recession getting in an internet slap fight with her fellow one percenter exes. Do you think anyone will remember this scintillating "societal conversstion" in a month?

People making morning zoo-caliber jokes about a bunch of one percenters airing their personal laundry over Twitter and joining their "camps": the biting social critique of our times. Certainly deserves to occupy two spots on one of the only online features dedicated to recommending podcasts.

Well I disagree with all of that, but hey whatever. Different strokes and all that.

I think it really depends on what you watch the show for. For me, it's followed a pretty perfect bell curve so far, with season 2 having the perfect balance of realism and fun that Season 1 (not fun enough) and Season 3 (too whimsical) missed.

I'm assuming that "(ugh)" is misplaced or a typo, because Idris Elba absolutely deserves an award for Beasts. As does Abraham Attah.