The cruelty of sparing your targets is not unintentional.

I’ve never really been interested in media that is about or seeks to recreate the ruminative morass of depression (the thing about it is that it feels romantic and charged when you’re in it but it actually isn’t and never has been), but I felt browbeaten enough to try my hand at this show, and I came in at a good time…

Is this post referring to the axe handle smash

Maybe it’s because I only started watching this show with the Ruthie episode of this season but the final sequence of this episode, with the cross-cutting and the Fray piano flourishes and the Tennessee Williams melodrama, didn’t really work for me. The collapsing mind palace aesthetics were clever enough, but…

At this point TotL part 2 feels a hell of a lot like The Fall as made by Joel Schumacher. It’s strange, they’re pretty similar in terms of perspective but that show was both better than this and far more unsparing, and more nihilistic, and yet was easier to connect with. When you have this much incident in a show it…

You have to admire Amazon’s commitment to trying as hard as possible never to produce a great series, Wong Kar Wai be damned

For my money, TP:TR’s last 20 minutes are the most authentically nightmarish scenes that Lynch has ever filmed - not just unsettling and wrong but unsettling and wrong in a quiet and invisible way - and it’s a perfect ending. The whole point of the season, the punchline to the title, is that you can’t go back. It’s a…

Also is there no way to change the order priority of comments

For what it’s worth I feel like the show was presenting both “Daniel did the facial on purpose” and “Issa projects intention” as true, or at least Issa is just as quick to escalate her argument with Lawrence when she feels humiliated, turning it into a highly planned orchestration when it seems pretty clear that…

If the show decides to reveal that Issa knew she was pregnant this whole time it will have really broken ~the cardinal rules of narrative~

In this ep The Arm repeats the phrase that Charlie unsettled Audrey with at the threshold, surely that’s significant.

I’ve always doubted the notion that David Lynch deliberately / overtly comments on anything in his work, especially this show. I can’t remember who said it but it was in one of these reviews, the idea that Lynch is so singular in his evocation of dream states because there is meaning and content but no metaphor to his…

I always mix the two up, have done so in AVC comments before. In fact I caught myself like “is this the guy I’m talking about? Warren Ellis?” and concluded that it probably was. It was not.

I have not been able to get into this show, partially because I’ve got such fond memories of the cartoon’s go-for-broke absurdity but mostly because I’ve always found Warren Ellis’ ironic black humor to be extremely tiring and a good amount of the Tick’s absurdism seems to have been swapped out for something exactly…

I kind of wanted it to be true - not because I dislike the character (far from it) but because every other source of tension from the climax was wrapped it in exceedingly neat fashion, and it would have been pretty bold to commit to the most drastic dramatic outcome.

I’m a DM, but I’ve never ever been a good one.

Remember when Claire was gonna be a character that tied the Defenders together? What she really did was get all the secondary characters onboard, I guess.

ALSO they take hostages and NO ONE makes a “talk to the Hand” pun? What the fuck

Apropos of nothing I would also like to say that even if the comment sections kinks get worked out, Kinja’s “one column stream” format is completely antithetical to the way AVC has approached content. I say this as someone who’s lived through many Twitter design changes and know that most are ridden out and forgotten.…

Last episode I compared this show to a badly run D&D campaign, and this episode really drove it home. You’ve got four player characters, none with any real ties to one another, each with wildly different character motivations for moving through the story (and alignments, as the case may be - JJ is basically the one…