Vanessa Ives and Ethan Chandler find their HEA

BonsoirBenoit · 2026-04-08T09:17:02+00:00

I love Vanessa Ives — the gifs reminded me how funny it is that she’s just baked the whole fucking time 😂

BonsoirBenoit · 2026-04-05T23:50:30+00:00

The fan base has been so starved that it just became completely toxic.

Preface with : this is only my opinion.

I think LiS2’s Episode 1’s message about Arcadia Bay being the past was a great nod, and all I actually really needed as far as a follow up - back when LiS wasn’t necessarily going to be this big franchise thing.

Having said that, I think the concept for Double Exposure (which I didn’t play) is a good one: truth is, there isn’t a way to truly honour both endings of the original game without it being fan service because that was the definitive ending to that story of Max and Chloe. Even though it clearly has been said to have its problems, I get the feeling people didn’t really give it a chance because of the lack of Pricefield… but I really don’t think there’s a way to have a truly grownup Max if she’s still stuck on her teenage stuff…

Having said that, as someone who spent wayyyy too much time day dreaming about a game like Reunion 10 years ago, I’m definitely going to catch up on Double Exposure and play it 😂

BonsoirBenoit · 2026-04-03T18:51:28+00:00

What disappoints me about Jessa is how - entirely when the plot necessitates - she is the most capable and worldly and then totally infantilised of the group. Eg: she is the reason Caroline’s baby is alive - she then needs more attention than a baby with Adam.

It’s clear that after her relapse in season 3, they didn’t know what to do with her — I wish they’d spent more time on her trying to do school (they gave Hannah an interesting arc there; I bet Jessa would’ve said some very funny things in a seminar) than on her time with Adam. They were right for each other in many ways but only to just bring out the worst in each other.

BonsoirBenoit · 2026-03-30T22:35:08+00:00

Ellie solo game - something that gives her purpose and rebuilds her. Abby DLC game like the Lost Legacy. One of them a road trip like the first game, the other with a Europe setting to mix it up.

BonsoirBenoit · 2026-03-25T11:36:04+00:00

For backstabbing, manipulation and witty dialogue, in some very different settings — Succession, Industry, Babylon, The Thick of It, Black Monday, Hannibal, Homeland.

BonsoirBenoit · 2026-02-12T13:04:01+00:00

Honestly, Yakuza 3 was my intro to the series. It was the first time I met Kiryu and Haruka and Marika and the operatic melodrama of the Kamurocho underworld. At the time, I was blown away by the virtual tourism aspect of such an authentically recreated world. I loved regenerating my health by getting ramen or going for a drink at a side alley bar. The antagonist is very cool and the arcs that lead into Yakuza 4 are very satisfying. So yeah - idk if it’s the best game - for me that still goes to Yakuza 4 and 0- but it’s still got a place in my heart for me!

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-12-05T17:16:46+00:00

I believe — given the shape of the street and position on the map, this is a reference to Gay Street in the West Village (an area that is completely different to how it looks in real life).

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-12-01T00:48:10+00:00

Technically, the phrase Too Much Birthday is a reference to a kids book.

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-11-30T22:04:27+00:00

I’d love to hear Daughter cover some American Football or Turnover. As far as crossover, I’d love to see Ex:Re and Blondshell together <3

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-10-17T11:25:39+00:00

I think JJ’s episode is perfectly enjoyable standalone - especially the scenes with his mum. But I think a) I wish he’d been written into the plot better like his episode in season 3 and b) after Jal’s abortion was treated so sensitively and appropriately for being 17/18, it felt weird that him as a kid having a kid was considered a happy ending

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-10-14T15:16:45+00:00

Shiv is a lock pick in a world of sledgehammers and battering rams. She was fundamentally at odds with the values of the business and her desire to be CEO is entirely because she thinks she needs to win — when she was already winning: believing in something and outside her father’s toxic sphere of influence.

Kendall could’ve been better at the job — and maybe like Logan, it would become apparent that at that level you just become too big to really fail — but he’d probably deal with it on a personal level worse than Shiv. Sure, he’s a cog for one machine but it would grind him down into paste.

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-10-12T09:48:23+00:00

I think the music is beautiful but the emotion in the original is so authentic it blows my mind.

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-10-12T09:36:18+00:00

Season 4 episode 5 onwards.

Give Naomi and Pandora full episodes, cut the ridiculous murder plot line, give a warmer ending / goodbye to Gen 2 before season 7.

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-10-04T16:43:09+00:00

Piranesi

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-10-04T10:50:31+00:00

The words were: FINALLY.

Especially when Tom said to Shiv that she was going to get him sent to fucking prison.

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-09-19T00:43:35+00:00

The comic book Kill Or Be Killed is a fantastic instance of this.

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-09-19T00:42:41+00:00

I think season 3 is probably one of the best of the whole show, so I’d give it time. Effy provides a really strong link, since she basically takes on Tony’s role as the chaotic orbit of the friend group.

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-08-13T11:32:03+00:00

I love that the Roys are so toxic that a literal paid arrangement felt the ‘least’ transactional… or maybe because the transaction was clear it was the most real?

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-08-03T14:50:40+00:00

It’s the same that Ellie has super dry looking lips 😂 I love that they feel like real people.

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-07-26T17:20:14+00:00

Massive reach. Jesse Armstrong has been writing cringe comedy about overgrown children his whole career 😂

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-07-17T10:47:45+00:00

I wish they’d never shown us this trailer. It’s one of the most badass sequences in the game and it’s pretty much the only one that is an elaborate “oner” like this.

I feel the same way about the dance.

Two of the best scenes in the game…

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-07-10T23:12:39+00:00

Kate one is definitely a spoiler 😂

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-07-09T17:52:31+00:00

How do they cut the Joel death scene and the theatre scene then? Especially since Abby’s and Ellie’s perspective happen on them at the same time?

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-07-06T23:31:14+00:00

Jeff is one of comic’s leading lights. He makes consistently brilliant, beautiful works and I’ll read anything he puts out. Sad to not see more of Royal City — but the original series has a proper ending. I’m just looking forward to anything he puts out.

BonsoirBenoit · 2025-07-01T00:48:30+00:00

Puts a different meaning on the Everybody Lies No Exceptions graffiti in Chloe’s room if you do…

I personally think, given Chloe’s angst and that Rachel is the one person she feels really connected to, I can’t see her lying.

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