A thought about my most recent review: I don’t tend to like things unless they stand out from the herd. Call that elitism, call it snobbery; I don’t care. I can’t pretend to like things I don’t like. One thing I feel obligated to point out is that I detest snobbery. Snobbery is close-minded, passive… Read More Of Snobbery and Boredom
Stranger Things is starting not to get the 80’s right. Probably it never did. Nostalgia coasts on dusting off old images, making people say “Hey, remember this!” and that’s only fun if it’s in the brightest possible colors. So much of the charm of Stranger Things lay in seeing boys riding around on bicycles, unattended, just… Read More Quick Review: Stranger Things 3
In retrospect, both of the statements in this headline invite a “duh” response. HBO’s current stock-in-trade is prestige TV series, and it’s been apparent since the second season of True Detective that prestige television is an exercise in miserabilism. Nothing good can happen and everyone of value has to die or lose what they love unless… Read More HBO’s Chernobyl is Misery Porn, and Therefore Largely Inaccurate
Anger be now your song, immortal one Akhilleus’ anger, doomed and ruinous that caused the Akaians loss on bitter loss and crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men– carrion for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done. -The Iliad Below the fold, the climactic scene in the episode,… Read More What Came to me Watching Last Week’s Game of Thrones
This post, which is full of SPOILERS, has been inspired by Ace dumping all over the doubleplus goodthinker who’s mad about the ethnicities of the fictional characters who took it in the shorts in the recent battle with the hordes of undead zombies in front of Winterfell. It’s literally: “Zombie Apocalypse, Immigrants Hardest Hit” I guess… Read More And Now, Idiots Write Stupid Things About Game of Thrones
I actually finished Season 3 of The Man in the High Castle, which I had been seriously anticipating for a while. People who were also fans told me it was something of a disappointment, and actually a chore to get through. This proved to be right: I watched the season in shortish binges and the whole… Read More Not-So-Quick Review: The Man in the High Castle and the Gotcha Problem
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