I’ll always show up for my main man “Golden” Vinny D.

Worse than the treacle is that the denouement / moral re: the healing power of truthfulness fundamentally clashes with the actual climax, which is all about lies providing comfort. What the fuck were they thinking

Where have you been for the 5 or 6 years that streaming television has been covered

It finds a groove and then it loses it. 

What is the deal with the mortician guy Shirley keeps seeing? It feels like there’s backstory there that got cut, or something. He doesn’t feel of a piece with the other ghosts, like he might not actually be a ghost but the sort of trite visualization of memory you see in a thousand other shows. 

No time travel or anything that wouldn’t have a rational explanation

Surprised that Russ Tamblyn’s Twin Peaks role is mentioned and not his role in the original Haunting movie. I think he played Luke iirc. 

I find it kind of sad that Ebert’s true legacy will turn out to have been a generation of internet kids demanding that every piece of pop art they like be handicapped and kept away from contextual / historical examination, as though those things weren’t absolutely integral to critique.

I suppose there’s some significance to the box, or boxes. I don’t think it’s a reference, but I also don’t think this show is elegant or smart enough to turn a pattern into actual symbolism (best shot in the dark is that it’s about passing on illness through bloodlines). I suppose we’ll see.

In all honesty, the show it’s most reminiscent of in its characters and their relationships is Transparent. I don’t mean that as a compliment. 

The best argument, at least if you’re going to argue on the Internet, for “why?” as a critical question that needs to be answered before you adapt something, is Zack Snyder’s Watchmen.

This show so far is basically Transparent with less trans folks and an added dash of tepid, post-J Horror midbudget studio imagery. That is to say it’s about a family of post-traumatic assholes resenting one another, plus there are some blind eyed ghosts that pop out.

Shes right

Also how likely is it that we’re going to see some timey wimey bullshit and the bent neck lady will turn out to be dead Carla Gugino traveling through time?

Yeesh, my first reaction to hearing about this, after having just read the superlative book, was “why?” But then my interest was piqued by the generous summary review put up here this week, and now there’s this! I don’t know what to think.

I’m enchanted and terrified that the con men who own the Wheel of Time IP finally found not just any money mark, but the most moneyed mark in the history of human civilization, to bankroll them after years and years of aborted projects. Good for them??

Not only does it fail to escape ideology... it’s also boring!

The whole point (well, half the point) of the Animus project, at least once you got to Black Flag, was to control popular notions of history through VR entertainment. That idea in and of itself is far more interesting and smart than presenting the ancient past straight-up with cursory “this great general was a stern…

As someone for whom swords and sandals shit has never had appeal, the ludicrous Wachowski-caliber metaplot is the best thing about these games at this point. The piracy detour and the renaissance-to-industrial-age provided the sweet spot for the series in terms of tech and terrain. I’d rather climb vertical shit (AC’s…

All evidence would point to the notion that people who can hear the schisma are more susceptible to the ambient evil. It’s what drove Lacy and M. Deaver to cage kids, and it’s probably what made black Henry see a white walker