Dear Grantland,
I enjoy reading your work. You hire talented writers who make me laugh and make me think on a daily basis.
However, I have a humble request that, in the future, you do not do what you did with your Justified recap of March 6, 2013 (which is pictured below, with POTENTIAL SPOILERS BLACKED OUT):
I understand that the spoiler in question was a big moment for the episode, and, for that matter, the season (it concerns the season-long mystery that the long arc has been focused on), and that therefore the recap would likely be built around said reveal.
However, for that very reason, I hope that you will suggest to your writers in the future that they hold spoilers until after the jump, so that someone who hasn’t seen the episode yet and is just scrolling down the page to see what post he/she wants to read doesn’t accidentally glimpse enough of the spoiler to ruin the episode for him/herself.
If I had clicked on “Read Full Post” and then spoiled the episode for myself, then great, fine. That’s my fault. But this is on the front of the Hollywood Prospectus page. I was trying to scroll down to the late Tuesday posts to see if there was anything I missed from yesterday that I wanted to read, and instead, I learned a crucial detail that I was planning on enjoying discovering when I watched the episode of Justified tonight.
In exchange for this consideration, I hereby pledge that for any show I would like to read the recap of, I will absolutely click on “Read Full Post”. I won’t skip it. Promise!
Just don’t make it harder to watch an episode of television unspoiled, please. Twitter and Facebook don’t need the help.
That is all. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Dan
