Pumpkin is one of my favorite movies. I consider it a spiritual successor to Heathers, minus the murder. Sort of.  Either way, hilarious and cunningly thoughtful with its tonal shifts.

Ah. That explains why you didn’t ask her how she expected Black Snake Moan to turn out.

My explanation is an aging memory, a worsening attention span, and an actual belief that the near-perfect season had a flawed finale.

Yeah, I thought it might explain Miller’s presence, but I somehow missed the actual shot of it glowing on the ship. As for Holden’s plan, I missed some key details that others have clued me in on. But even while confused I didn’t care if other characters believed the plan was superior. It was my *own* lack of belief…

Sounds like I missed at least one key line of dialogue. With the time situation explained, that puts even more weight on Ashford’s sudden obsession with going out in a blaze of redemption.

Fair enough. It was less about me being on the side of aggression then feeling the storytelling was (for once) too rushed and incomplete. I was left wondering why it was so important *not* to destroy the unfeeling machine about to wipe out a solar system. But it sounds like most people never thought Ashford’s plan…

I think I know what you mean.  And I suppose Miller’s presence on the ship could have depended on the protomolecule being there. But I was surprised they didn’t show the stuff again, as a reminder. I love how much the show trusts a viewer’s ability to follow things and sort them out on their own.

I understand your take, as well. It just wasn’t clear to me that there was enough time to try both ideas—especially if shutting down the reactors would have set the laser’s progress back to square one. But the time argument became moot, anyway, when Holden said the laser would only guarantee the solar system’s…

I’m glad there’s another season on the way, but this finale wasn’t the best selling point. Apart from the bomb experiment, my major issue not being convinced Holden’s plan was better than Ashford’s (other than that Holden is a main character). We had every reason to believe humanity was in imminent danger, so trying…

I enjoyed the second season much more than the first—except for the finale, which I found incredibly tedious and underwhelming. In that hour and a half, Westworld convinced me to stop watching Westworld.

I even think Derek could have worked if he’d dropped the faux-doc structure and cast someone else as the lead.

It’s a little late, but I think I left off a few important questions: When a mentally ill loved one attacks you, how much blame do they deserve? And even if you don’t blame them at all, can you ever completely forgive them? Is it best to keep them in your lives, or love them from afar?

I enjoyed her on The Carmichael Show.

Hawley provides a lot of insight in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly. In fact, I stopped reading in case he went into next season details. But I like his description of David’s journey: that season one had him successfully medicated (by Syd’s love), and season two has him going off his meds (undermining her…

Several comments in the original review pointed to other acts of rape in the show, both mental and physical, including Syd’s rape of her mother’s boyfriend. With that in mind, the show has always been addressing themes of consent, asking its audience to view the topic as not always black and white, pure victim and…

This is a bit like the direction of The Last Jedi, in that both approaches ask an audience to accept that what they thought was most important to the story’s universe was either trivial or only a small part.

Good point. I’m guilty of underestimating the mouse’s storage capacity.

How many mice did Farouk have to send out in order to gain complete freedom from his crimes?

Jessica Barden is a master at uttering obscenities. As for the show, I loved it up until they found her dad. Those final two installments felt too ordinary to me, compared with the rest.

HBO: “Were there still tits thousands of years ago?”