OVERRATED
I was going to say "Mad Men," but I don't want all my friends hating on me, so let's go with Stieg Larsson's "Tattooed Swede Plays With Fire, Gets Stung by Hornet" books. Even on a beach vacation last summer, the trilogy's second installment dragged like a mild toothache, and never paid off after its promising start. I'll take a pass on books 1 and 3, plus the movies, whether in Swedish or English.
UNDERRATED
Fractured English. Everyone gets so hot when Sarah Palin coins the word "refudiate," or when then-President George W. Bush came up with his famous "misunderestimate." For my money, politicians manjangling the language only serves to amusify.
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