I liked it too! Both the episode you mentioned and the series as a whole, I mean. I did find the ending pretty underwhelming, but a weak finale kind of comes tandard-issue in a King story. The ride's a lot more important than the destination.

In my own personal opinion, the closest anything has come to replicating the feel of a Stephen King story might be, of all things, 11.22.63. Although it wasn't the best King adaptation (though certainly not the worst, either), it nonetheless had that one-of-a-kind atmosphere: like a hyper-vivid nightmare, where…

I like this term! Look out Bruce Campbell, Lance Henrikson, Dean Cain when he needs to make a house payment, and the entire male cast of Supernatural once the show wraps - ya'll are Screambros®!

Yeah, who can forget all those times Game of Thrones fans threatened to rape George R.R. Martin to death if he doesn't finish The Winds of Winter?

Protecting America, one savagely beaten union activist at a time.

Awesome, a new Mike Doughty track!

I had a conversation about this with an acquaintance not long ago. My thesis was that the heightened awfulness some people indulge in via the internet can be explained in two words: "punching distance." That phrase springs to mind whenever I imagine these people venting even a fraction of their vitriol in person,…

No, but making a post like this one sure as hell does.

America's sweetheart!

Yes: there's no sensible reason for a corporation to risk billions in potential profits by offending the world's most economically influential superpower with what would be an ultimately meaningless gesture of support for Tibet. It's a harsh reality of global capitalism. I can accept that. But I'm not going to be a…

Am I allowed to have an opinion without making a financial investment? And if not, what's the current NASDAQ rating on you being a complete fuckwit?

"Someone's feelings" is a really fun way to describe the situation in Tibet.

I think that the reason so many Stephen King adaptations simply don't "work" lies in King's unique gift for developing tension and atmosphere. Most of his novels have what seem like laughably awful basic storylines ("A posessed car that murders people!" "A haunted hotel!" "A different haunted hotel, but it's just the…

Man, this year's Purge is off to a pretty rocky start.

At worst, it's getting-pissed-on-from-a-balcony-worthy.

*James Franco straps on full-body Kevlar armor, heads down the street to Chipotle*

I have to admit, I've punched a lot of babies hoping one of them would be you.

Stuffed full of wadded-up gym socks, wearing a motocross helmet underneath.

SQUASH THE BEOUF

Dog With a Blog really went off the rails after Kurt Sutter took over as showrunner.