Bre’r Fox and Bre’r Bear are both made clear analogues to those jerky poor white neighbor kids who bully Johnny after he befriends their sister. And Bre’r Rabbit serves as a role model for Johnny himself. They all speak in something like Remus’ dialect because he’s telling the story.

slave-filled Reconstuction-era plantation

This is not the first time Eggers have deployed avian actors to uncanny and unsettling effect

H. G. Wells had an amusing take on whether the one-eyed man would be king in “The Country of the Blind”.

The AVClub is wholly owned by Dawes, so you’ll have to wait for them to sign onto AppleTv.

Presumably why they added the scene with Jon Arryn’s corpse where they say un-naturally expositional stuff like “As your brother”, and “As your sister”.

The first season of Hannibal is my favorite. I had watched Band of Brothers shortly before I started with his BSG, and the humans came across as incompetents who would deservingly doom their species to extinction. That first regular episode was good though, and later seasons were much worse.

Game of Thrones ended, whereas Walking Dead aspires to walk forever.

There are a number of people notable enough for wikipedia pages named “David Friedman”. But only one “David Benioff”. If I heard the name “David Friedman”, my first assumption is that it’s the son of Milton Friedman and father of Patri Friedman, not the son of the New York Fed chairman.

I think the people calling them talentless hacks are wrong, but I agree that it reflects badly on them how much they gave up during the later seasons. Apparently they were basically exhausted by the huge lumbering beast the show had become, but part of being a showrunner is delegating responsibility to the larger…

Benioff wrote The 25th hour, which was good.

Since someone here liked this when I linked it recently, and I’ve repeatedly listening to it myself, I ought to include this:

The original Mexican version of We Are What We Are is WAY better. It’s basically a family drama where the family happen to be cannibals, and there’s no explanation why and none of the characters question it because it’s what they’ve known all their lives. The remake has awful flashbacks to give some stupid origin…

I’d argue that a zombie apocalypse is the one scenario where that’s actually a justified response.

I don’t use ride-sharing services often, though I did just read today someone claiming that the threat of a low-rating diminishes how talkative they are relative to cabs:

What a disappointing movie.

“I never said half the things I said” - Yogi Berra.

I was dissapointed by Headey there. It’s like they undid her arc from the original film. The interesting characters were all from the future.

I’ve been saying that for years. Judgement Day just added a big budget for CGI on top of a lot of plot holes while rehashing beats from the original to a lesser effect.