Henry James himself stated that it was just a ghost story, and not an unreliable narrator.

Madeline ffitch’s all-lowercase surname reminds me of “ffolkes” from North Sea Hijack.

The Duffers were born the year after Stranger Things starts. I was born a little after that.

I try to recommend Rectify to anyone I can, although that show never really aspired to wide appeal. I think that something else in the vein of the 70s possibly could, but Rectify is fairly light on “genre” elements despite having some mystery regarding the crime the protagonist is accused of.

The series has never resonated with me the way it seems to with many others, and your logic suggests that might be due to lacking those supposedly universal experiences (I never felt I was born into the wrong family either, contra Philip Pullman). But another possibility is that 70s movies tended to be better than 80s…

Earlier episodes established that the house was an evil place which tricked Nell into going there and thinking she could get some closure, only to sucker punch her and subject her to precisely the terror that had haunted her throughout her life. It’s hard to reconcile that with the spirits in the house getting some…

I thought it was a terrible idea to change Haunting of Hill House into a family drama series requiring some kind of happy ending, but since I like Flanagan’s movies I figure I’ll give him another shot with this. I’m surprised that the article above didn’t note that the governess is never named in Henry James’ novel.…

The series that cursed us with Ben Affleck.

I read the book but only watched the first season. What’s the reason in the show that Piper was in prison that long?

I’m not the first person to point out that the later version of Mystique never rises to the level of RRS saying she “shouldn’t have to” resemble a normal human, but being unoriginal doesn’t make me less accurate.

Darlin’ is the one movie of this year’s fest I saw, and while it had some good parts it didn’t hang together. If I had gone earlier in that day I could have seen the world premiere of McKee’s “Kindred Spirits”, and I don’t yet know which would have been the better choice. I also could have sworn that I saw Katie Rife…

If Borges had written this Jack’s rewriting of the Beatles would be even better than the Beatles.

I didn’t know Slumdog was co-directed.

Evil Lincoln doesn’t carry that axe for nothing.

Roger Ebert said the same thing about Harry Dean Stanton (and M. Emmet Walsh). But he added that “Dream a Little Dream” violated his rule for Stanton.

Arya Stark is lefthanded.

Or perhaps it could be a basement. Specifically, El Dan’s basement.

Bisexuality basically doubles the number of potential pairings for a character, so one might expect tv writers to be make use of it.

She’s just ahead of her time. Up against gunfire, minimizing the odds that it strikes clothing before your body minimizes the subsequent risk of infection.

What does “OP” mean in this context?