Joel Edgerton weirds me out, because he should, by definition of both his looks and his name, be a bland, forgettable leading man a la Sam Worthington, and yet he consistently puts out great performances and is super underrated as an actor.

Man when I got to that choice I literally had to walk out of the room and go pour myself a drink. He's the most developed of the characters outside of the main 3, so it really shook me that I was going to have to make that call. I ended up going with my choice because I reasoned that A2's softening toward him was due…

I'm approaching what I suspect might be the end of Route C right now (just erased Pascal's memories and I'm now going through the second Resource Recovery unit in the Flooded City) and it's just blowing my mind how good the story in this game is. The aformentioned choice you have to make, 2B's death, the reveal of the…

Is anyone else here playing NieR: Automata? Because I want to talk about it.

Which ones?

They're really on a roll, aren't they? Blumhouse has been doing good stuff too, though less arthouse and more "way better than it has any right to be".

Did I digifreak you on the comparison to The Witch? My bad.

It Comes At Night keeps A24's horror streak going. It reminded me of The Witch a lot.

You'd like it. Sudeikis and Alison are both really good in it.

Oh, I shouldn't have worried about Bachelorette. It's not quite on the level of Sleeping With Other People but it still has way more emotional resonance than you'd expect given the premise. B+ (to SWOP's A)

I meant more like I didn't think you'd actually hit the second season.

whoa I assumed you'd only seen like half of S1 given your description

Do you believe her? I think I do, even though she started to shout stop in the opening scene.

Yeah, I think the fact that she's telling a story rather than narrating something that we see is a crucial detail. But in the end, it doesn't matter if it's true or not. What matters is that Kevin believes her.

Nora's final monologue was both amazing and hilarious in the way it spit in the face of "show don't tell"

I'll grant that the first season is both frustrating and a bit of a slog at times, in classic Lost season 2 fashion. But immediately in the second season it's doing things that no other show on TV is capable of and it becomes a powerhouse. The first season is a solid B; everything after is an A.

Like I say below, as it goes on it's not a depressing show at all. At the beginning it is though so I totally understand ditching it.

Wait, I thought you were watching this. Man, get on it.

It's not despairing! It's all about hope and connection and shit like that. I get where you're coming from, because that's a lot of what the first season is, but the show goes through a metamorphosis in the second season once they step away from Perotta's book and it becomes something much different.

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