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Introduction When I heard Stephen King liked this, I thought I would take a look. The man has excellent taste. When I saw that the main actor was Tatiana Maslany, I knew I had to watch it. I have loved her ever since her incredible performance in "Orphan Black"
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 11 days ago in Critique
You'll Never Guess the Ending!. Honorable Mention in The Most Overrated Challenge. Top Story - August 2026.
I've always loved a thriller. A quick read with twists and turns and short, snappy chapters- sign me up! Especially when there's a mysterious dead body or a long-dead small town or family secret to uncover. But lately I've noticed something I absolutely HATE in two of the most recent thrillers I read, a kind of trend I wasn't aware was happening until I read two of the books that had been sitting on my TBR list for months, and was disappointed and driven to rage (lol- but really) over the same thing twice in a row.
By Raistlin Allen26 days ago in Critique
Train Dreams
The reviews were good, and it received 4 Academy Award nominations, among other awards. It was streaming, so my husband sat beside me, and we watched Train Dreams , starring Joel Edgerton. It is touted as an extraordinary story of an unremarkable life. Really, though, is any life so ordinary when we examine it closely?
By Andrea Corwin 26 days ago in Critique
The Critic And The Cryptic Visitor
Social media, evened the playing field after the recent century turned, allowing the public the opportunity to broadcast their views, using worldwide video technology. Decades ago, movie critics monitored, the most overrated story telling format, 'Filmmaking', filing one-week journalistic reports. Advising interested information gathers on whether the new cinema experience was a sound, time, and financial investment. But many asked, did these promotional warning gimmicks miss anything the camera captured?
By Marc OBrien27 days ago in Critique
The Key, the Goddess, and the Abdication of Reason: Why BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Season Five Is Overpraised
There is a peculiar standard by which works of popular art are sometimes praised: the more misery they inflict upon their characters, the more profound they are assumed to be. A heroine cries; therefore the writing is "mature." A family collapses; therefore the season has "depth." A supernatural mythology grows more arbitrary; therefore the story has become "epic." A character behaves irrationally; therefore he has become "complex."
By ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR28 days ago in Critique
The Devil's Overpraised Carnival: Why THE MASTER AND MARGARITA Does Not Quite Earn Its Halo
There are books whose fame resembles a fine patina: time deepens the color, clarifies the grain, and makes the object beneath it more beautiful. There are others upon which fame settles like theatrical gilt, thickening year by year until one hesitates to tap the surface for fear of discovering plaster. Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita belongs, I suspect, rather more to the second category.
By ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR29 days ago in Critique
House of Dragon, S3, yawn
Game of Thrones was an enthralling HBO series with characters you grew to love, only to have the writers kill them off. I gasped aloud when Ned Stark was beheaded. His daughter, Arya, was a fighter and survived many challenges. Cersei was so evil I wanted to strangle her and her horrid son myself. She was so cruel and cunning, yet I felt sorry for her during her naked walk of shame. Tyrion Lannister was always fun to watch and see the scheming he did. Cersei was cruel to him, her brother.
By Andrea Corwin 29 days ago in Critique
