And Jesse L Martin!

Duchovny is actually pretty good in it, IMO, but most of what's around him is… mediocre. I lost interest and stopped watching somewhere half-way through because I was just bored when he wasn't on screen.

In fairness, we've been there, done that, and it didn't really go so well (despite Doggett being far better than he's given credit for).

Willow's problem should have been about abusing her power and controlling people.

I'm guessing that's a "no" to the notion that the changes might be improvements, then.

I'm a few episodes into season 2, and agree that the cast of The Musketeers is great, and it's plenty of fun when it gets going. But it is so badly written. Twice now, if memory serves, they've done the "D'Artagnan goes undercover (well, sort of)" plot, and both times they revealed it at the stupidest possible moment,…

I think it fell on its arse completely for a few moments - logged me out of both the AVClub (par for the course) and Disqus, and proceeded to show me huge GoT and Han Solo gifs to apologise for not being able to log me back in. Nice try, Disqus.

This week in Fuq you, Disqus: fuq you, Disqus, for first stubbornly refusing to "Load more comments" and then, when you finally deign to show me the next batch, removing the last few of the previously loaded ones, one of which I was about to respond to.

I've still only seen the first three seasons, so you're not completely alone.

As a fairly recent first-time watcher, I hated magic-addicted Willow. So clunky and ham-fisted.

The main character is a fairly straightforward "hero with vague anti-hero traits to keep him interesting" type, so there's plenty there to feed Costner's vanity without messing with it. I suppose it's possible that the changes are improvements - "faithful" isn't necessarily best, after all. But I'm certainly not going…

This is the first of hers I'm reading, and I'm only about 40 pages in, so it's really too soon to say much. There are both intimate and "world-shattering" (literally) parts to it, and this one is in part written in the second person, which is always an odd trick. But so far, it seems to work (for me).

I read about half of this
article about A Little Life and decided
that I'd maybe give that one a miss…

I haven't seen the film, but it's apparently based on the book. Although from the IMDB page and the trailer, it doesn't seem like a very faithful adaptation.

After The Postman, which was entertaining but got on my nerves a bit towards the end with its 1980s feminism (women are great, but in, y'know, a fundamentally different way than men), I read Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt, which is very odd but quite beautifully written. I have no idea what the point was, but…

That'd work. Or maybe he could get trapped in a mystical amulet. The team would make occasional attempts throughout the season to free him, which would be an excellent opportunity to bring in Constantine (who goes into the amulet, meets the guy, reemerges, sneering slightly, and declares this to be beyond his powers…

He really is terrible. I don't know if they're planning on giving him some character development ("can we make him less of an arse? somehow?"), but as it stands, Hawkgirl choosing to go off with him was almost as clunky, non-organic and "because she has to, duh" as Barry's dad deciding to go camping (or whatever it…

Tore through Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller over the weekend. The story of a young girl abducted by her father to live in a remote cabin, it's not perfect, but it's pretty good.

Had a very busy past couple of weeks, but now I'm finally getting around to Fargo season 2. Which, a bit over half-way through, I am absolutely loving.

Hey, I bought a yellow bike on purpose once!