(As non-specific spoilers as I can manage)

The Goog, The

Her victory was so catastrophic it's only due to a lack of viable candidates that she's even still in power

It's funny, my friend watched it back with his girlfriend recently, who'd never seen it before, and she noticed nothing about season 4. She didn't know the back-story of Harmon's firing, and she took it as just the next set of episodes.

Getting Imogen Heap on just because she's apparently Ariana Grande's idol was a nice moment too

I guess it's that thing about cliche actually being incredibly resonant during a lot of the big moments in life, but after what happened in Manchester, and coming so soon after the attacks in London, I found that a lot of songs I tend to turn my nose up at were actually kind of good and necessary in this exact context.

This is cool satire you've got going on here, guy.

The teenage girl bopping serenely on her dad's shoulders to Coldplay, realising the TV cameras were on her and trying to mouth along to the words of a song she clearly didn't know out of politeness was extremely relatable. Fix You came out in 2005, she'd probably only recently been born.

That was definitely the intention I'm sure

Yeah, the high-volume strategy that seems to drive media sites when advertising revenue is junk is hell on everybody.

A lot of the late-posted entertainment news must be time-delayed (unless they do have interns scanning the web for Rachel Maddow news at 2am, which I guess isn't impossible in the digital economy).

He's got great feel too, I always imagined the solo to Hummer as flashy but then I sat down and learned it and it turns out it's mostly just enthusiastic bending

Pobody's Nerfect has a super-gratifying guitar solo

Beat the Champ definitely took a while with me but I put it it on a lot these days. "A nice chill record to read to" sounds like damning with faint praise but it really isn't.

I agree, I think it's an unambiguously good thing. And P4k journalism definitely has its sins, but it was one of the first indie places that seemed to do proper write-ups of Britney that engaged with them on their own terms.

A lot of the torture in Exquisite Corpse is extremely specific and I have a hard time with it, way worse than American Psycho in that respect

I think poptimism came from a good place, that musical tribalism is misguided and there's good stuff everywhere.

The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, which is about the language of children becoming poisonous to adults.

I worried about the dubsteppy beats added to the theme in the second half, just because they seemed to square with the sort of rhythm you'd get in a more standard sci-fi thriller and that kind of urgency seems counter to the spirit of the original. But it is probably just a remix of a Vangelis theme from the original.…

I didn't see it for years after first watching it as a kid, and but even half-remembered growing up it felt like a singular movie to me. I couldn't remember anything of the plot (I don't even remember if it was the theatrical or director's cut I first saw) but I could remember some of the images with perfect clarity…