Yeah, I hate it when things are pompous and condescending.

I liked the pace though did not find it depressing, rather for me it felt tragic and sorrowful because of the poor girl. Many times the first episode is the toughest because you are juggling multiple new storylines and meeting people you are trying to sort out within the presentation but this was done very well and…

Exactly.  I know I’m a bit of a hypocrite as I’ve also complained on here about some other TV reviews which are almost entirely “And then this happened” recaps and nothing else, but...

fair enough..but she punched her brother..it wasn’t just some dude in handcuffs. a brother who is screwing over his entire family and it is painful to watch...absolutely cool if that is still enough to bother you..but to me it shows an understanding of all the people in that situation. 

You haven’t even seen it? I don’t judge or proclaim unless I have seen it myself, and watched it last night. So far I have only seen good reviews. The first episode introducing everything and everyone is usually a slog but this one had several interesting characters, dramatic developments and humor plus the acting was…

I made it 4 seasons into How to Get Away with Murder just because they would say “Fishtown” and “Cherry Hill”

I’m from Tennessee, but my mom’s family is from the Eastern shore of MD. They share a similar accent to this one here, and I’ll never forget the time my sister and I were riding bikes around my grandparents’ neighborhood on a summer visit and a neighbor said “Doon’t y’all get tahhhhr gooin’ up that hill?” My sister…

I dunno--there was a local murder in the Canadian city I grew up in (under a bridge, no less) by a group of teen girls who had been tormenting another girl and... their behaviour wasn’t all that different from all the reports.

Were there several entire paragraphs of this that didn’t get posted? I know reviews are rushed and it’s not great form to pick on them, but aside from a sentence that seems like it was garbled by the computer (“Her life is about to complicate as a renewed focus on the Katie Bailey dovetails with a brutal murder in…

my guess of the killer is Winslet’s ex and his fiancé. no idea why. that’s for the writers to sort out. i want to genuinely gasp when the killer/s are revealed. i want an interesting whodoneit.

He’s a great actor and one who I tend to think is underrated.

After the disappointment of ‘Your Honor’, I was really hoping that something intense, bleak and gritty would come along soon. The first episode had me hooked within five minutes. Kate Winslet never disappoints.

Is Guy Pearce turning into David Carradine?

Pretty sure they live back-to-back rather than across the street, which is way worse. 

I’d watch a mini-series of Kate Winslet reading the phonebook (are those even still a thing?), but she was excellent in this first episode. She always seems to disappear into her characters and I forget that I’m watching a major Oscar winning superstar and that was very much the case with Mare. I rewatched Titanic…

I mean it’s good. The sheer quality of it comes across in waves. And Kate Winslet is such a watchable actor. But did it have to be a pretty young woman who dies? And then draped across the rocks. Couldn’t a curve have been thrown, the boyfriend instead perhaps - or, here’s a suggestion, make us care without needing to…

I kind of like this show, but man is it bleak. Almost everyone comes off as a jerk, at best. The only pleasant one is Guy Pearce’s visiting professor, which obviously means he’s the murderer. 

I’m not disagreeing or judging you. A lot of times when I watch a show or movie, or read a book, or even play a video game or exercise, I’m not looking for “fun.” I’m looking for I’m looking for something that will teach me, or show me a different human’s experience, or just someone else’s artistic expression.…

For those on the fence, I’m several episodes in, with my white 67yo father, and we find it hard to watch, but necessary, and entertaining as hell. This is almost a brand new kind of ‘genre’ for horror, let’s call it ‘lived horror’. The striking thing the whole time you’re watching is that NONE of this (save the…

I watched the first episode and since it doesn’t have the genre fare of Peele’s work nor the campiness of Lovecraft, it was mostly a hard watch, but still well execute. If it wants white people to understand the unrelenting nature of racism then this probably does it the best, it just might not be entertaining in the…