I’m no fan of the first (I find that it starts off good but gets repetitive in its scare tactics) but thought this one looked good. Glad to see Ignatiy liked it!

No one’s brought it up but this is an adaptation of Laird Barron’s short story -30-. He’s one of the best horror writers working today, and I’ve been stoked for this since I first heard about it nearly a year ago. Reviews seem mixed but I kind of expected that.

Smoking and shooting someone are two vastly different things though, you can’t really compare them in this way.

Yeah, only reddit likes it, that’s why it has a 78% certified fresh rating on RT. >_>

I really like season 2 as well. It was a different style of noir than the first and it seemed to suffer for that. And I can understand why people didn’t like the dialogue, but it usually felt in character to me.

That scene where Bobby walks in the conference room and sees Laura’s picture as her theme starts to play. The emotions hit you like a brick, I teared up.

Yes! I’m excited for that one too, really good choice.

The tendency to start crapping out when threads got too big, along with other various glitches.

That bit actually bothered me. The one action star they hire gets killed in a CGI battle and doesn’t even get to show off any of his moves. :(

Agreed. Neil Marshall is a pretty solid b-movie director, although the action editing in Doomsday is terrible, but I can’t help but enjoy its ridiculous mash up of post-apocalyptic cliches. It’s got a quarantine zone, an elite soldier missing an eye that has to enter for one last mission, and not only have some of the…

Todd left us with the most glorious anti-spoilerphobia article in existence. Did y’all learn nothing?!

I kept hitting claim and nothing happened, then I refreshed this page since the log in screen wasn’t working and it gave me a page where I was able to set my username and password (on here, not the claim page), but I don’t know if that properly transferred my account over. I guess so because my display picture is…

Chrome can also be a resource hog on older machines. It fucks with my laptop so hard.

These comments about "deserving" or "earning" a grade are weird to me. It's the reviewer's subjective opinion. Your opinion is subjective too. So who cares what the rating is?

Him dying first actually get sort of cliche to me, in the sense that, when you're purposefully playing with genre tropes the way Harmon's work often does, killing the "hero" first becomes the predictably unpredictable move.

And then 99 Red Balloons starts up as Minnie Driver finds them after the fight and keeps playing while he hides the body with Jeremy Piven. It's soooo good.

After killing someone by stabbing them with a carrot.

No one is saying that but I could see how the overwhelming negativity towards it might make people hesitant to admit they enjoy it because they don't want to be judged in that way.

He's actually very palatable outside of his own shows. He's made a few appearances lately on some internet programs like Munchies and Hot Ones, and he comes off as a very chill and knowledgeable guy who also seems fairly self-aware.

I'm pretty happy with The Return though. We don't know how far it would have went otherwise but we certainly wouldn't have gotten anything like episode 8 back then.