He himself has responded* to concerns that he won’t finish by saying that Tolkien never finished the Silmarillion, Dickens never finished Edwin Drood, Fitzgerald never finished The Last Tycoon and Peake never finished Titus Alone (that one was actually published in 1959, whereas Peake himself died in 1968, so he might…

The big difference between Winds of Winter and these tv shows is... the tv shows don’t depend on GRRM doing anything more than signing off in order to get made. Which is how Game of Thrones got finished, even if it wasn’t in a satisfactory manner. If GRRM asked his former assistant Ty Franck to help him finish his…

The junior film critic saying Batman Returns scared him when Terminator 2 didn’t really just hammers home... how much better the original Terminator was.

Given what Denis said about this not being a normal sequel, I’ll be annoyed if his last one his titled “Dune Part 3".

I don’t believe you’re a survivor, I think you’re one of the victims of the zombie apocalypse trying to lull the AV Club comments sections into a false sense of security so you can feast on our delicious braaaaaiiiiinssss. Jokes on you, because ours are thoroughly rotted from the consumption of empty calorie pop…

Code-switching is not about race. The job interview scene in Trainspotting is a great-example of it: Renton can code-switch (though he doesn’t actually want the job he can get), but Spuds can’t and sounds just like he does talking to his friends (except more inept).

I think they definitely should have done a better job of delegating. They’ve complained about exhausting it was and how much of their time has gone to the show, but it’s not like they had fewer writing & directing credits for the later seasons (they had no directing credits for the earliest seasons). But I also don’t…

I think it’s both the case that they got bored and that they were trying to execute the bullet points GRRM gave them. GRRM himself hasn’t been able to write a path from his most recent book to his planned ending, and D&D haven’t had nearly as much time to write, so they just threw up their hands and plowed ahead to…

The better seasons (which I give credit to D&D for) were more than collections of moments. The parts worked synergistically to make an effective whole.

Why is this “news”? It was publicly announced long ago they have an exclusive deal with Netflix.

I had the same question. The Novice is a feature debut for its director as well!

I’m also confused by the concept of indie TV. I know Horace & Pete shows it’s possible to make a series that’s independent like a Cassavetes movie, but that’s the exception.

Way to stay in character, but I don’t see anything there about blackface.

I saw it and think it’s overrated.

Ah, I only watched the first season and didn’t see the point of subsequent seasons. I also thought The Fall should have combined its first two seasons into one (I didn’t watch after the second).

She was in Broadchurch? I don’t remember her being in that.

Was dunking on Wild Wild West too easy to bother? At any rate, you’ll be missed.

Harbou did actually join the Nazi party (after the war she said it was just to help Indian immigrants in Germany) and directed films under that regime, while her ex-husband left the country.

The joke was referring to this: