the need in our culture for everything to be “the best” or “the worst,” with no room for “lousy story but terrific lead performance,” or “great vocals but crummy lyrics,” or “jerky third baseman but impressive starting pitching,” or “wrong on abortion but right on tax reform.” In our preference for all or nothing—and our tendency to push everything into the slot we’ve already assigned it to in our heads—I worry that we sometimes miss what we’re actually seeing and hearing.
Noel Murray from AV Club, quoted in the article I just posted the link for
