In haste

Before I catch the train which I'll be on for the rest of the day, a few links:

Penny Dreadful: Titan Books will do a comics prequel, which on the one hand, yay, on the other, will the medium be able to catch the glorious screwed upness of the Vanessa and Malcolm relationship, which, let's be real, is what I most want from a prequel?

Black Sails: unrelated to yesterday's issue, concise post on another issue, to wit, why my sympathies are entirely with Max (and Eleanor), not Jack, in last episode's development, here.

Tolkien: great essay in the TLS by rozk, here.

Oscars: one of the weirdest moments was when a bunch of people, led by Alejandro Iñárritu, refused to applaud for costume designer Jenny Beavan. Satiric take on that one.

Better Call Saul 2.03.

In which your faithful reviewer is unhappy twice over, once in a "good storytelling" and once in a "storytelling I don't like" kind of way.

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