The season does remarkably well with most of its material given how utterly overstuffed it is, but there are aspects of it that just aren’t given time to cook, and the Rebecca / Peter romance (“”) is one of them. I didn’t believe in their connection and the show relies on telling more than the showing that an actual…

This is more or less the speed at which gothic horror operates. 

They are cartoonishly bad, but the kids at least seem in line with Henry James’ original text. 

Imo, they straight up mangled the first story, I suppose because American shows must have metaplot (sigh) and cannot have protagonists who are unpunished for bad deeds.

A journeyman in the artistic context is someone who works for a living and either isn’t in a position or isn’t specifically interested in cultivating notoriety or in identifying work as “theirs”, requiring that it present a certain way or have certain qualities.

It doesn’t sound particularly different from the original, tbh

It looks absolutely gorgeous but I find sci-fi dystopia driven by a Manichean religion/atheism divide to be deeply ‘00s in a very dumb, labored kind of way. It’s 2020! The idea that the world would be destroyed for religious, rather than economic or political reasons (including climate change, the thing that will…

As someone caught in the continual process of denying this site’s steep decline, I don’t appreciate this article

Are there still a bunch of international co-productions (France, Germany etc) running concurrently or was that scrapped for the second season?

Personally I found it thuddingly obvious, after The Force Awakens debuted, that the first function of Boyega’s character was to serve as a head fake in trailers. We knew JJ Abrams by then, didn’t we? There’s not a single “super producer” alive more canny to the cargo cult of white dudes on the internet and how they…

This show is absolutely escapist!

The way they cast the Ennis role makes suppression of his culpability largely meaningless. Might as well come out and say it.

This is Cardinal erasure. 

It hasn’t been established yet. Given that the thread used to sew the eyes open was the first piece of evidence that Mason spirited away in his matchbox, that detail may well be the key to the case - whoever’s sewing that is, is at the heart of the case..

Rip to a real one. 0 wins but EB goes out having let the world know where real French dip in LA can be had.

I’ll say that this show really solidly won me over when old mid-part Robert Patrick tried to turn his son against Emily by “bonding” over their shared weakness for “degenerate women” and the son immediately defending his mother. Most shows would take the easier route of Emily’s husband aligning quickly and permanently…

People have reasonably complained about how dark and gory this show gets for a reboot of a fairly stuffy law procedural, but having sought out so many UK thriller TV shows that got little-to-no play stateside, I’ve been desensitized. I would blame Neil Cross but he’s not even responsible for bone-deep bleak shows like …

One of the motifs that seem threaded through a bunch of episodes seem to be that stained glass design. I seem to have watched them out of order and I don’t know whether it’s tied to a specific thing, but I’m pretty sure that same cellular design was a window in the Hogwarts high school women’s bathroom.

This was probably the best of the season, frankly. The second half is rather bald, but in so being it gets as close to an actual Serling-era sci fi story as this iteration of the show has ever gotten - discussion of metaphysics is never exactly fun. Despite the cumbersome dialogue it never loses its off-center…

Was Community really so beloved that Joel McHale can get multiple at-bats as a dramatic genre actor? He showed up in some bad latter-day X-Files as well. At least when they cast Wil Wheaton, or whatever, it’s like, okay, we’re gladhanding the Con crowd, fine. But Joel McHale? Who wants to see Joel McHale act?