This has been a great series, and it’s kept me coming back to the AV Club for each update. And now that the series is over....well, that’s probably it for me around here. Here’s to a genuinely great series of essays, and here’s to what was once one of the finest websites around. And finally, here’s a hearty fuck you…

That line didn’t quite land, but I gotta say I did get a chuckle out of this: “We will preface this article with the following: At the beginning of the interview Buckingham reflects on how his 2019 heart attack was a very “humbling” experience and he’s “less self-involved” now.”

I lived in Jersey (Exit 9 area) at the time, maybe 20 miles from Manhattan, and the image that will be forever seared in my brain is more or less what you describe. That afternoon I took a walk just to try to clear my head a little, and when I went up the hill a couple blocks from the house I saw the plume of smoke in…

I’m with you. The stuff centered on Rey and Kylo I very much enjoyed, and to my mind contains the best scenes in the sequels by a good margin. But then the Canto Bight stuff is in the running for the worst plotline in any Star Wars movie. It’s probably not quite as bad as the Padme/Anakin Naboo frolic or the entire…

Pretty sure you mean “RotJ,” not “RotS.” Though it would be amazing if Lucas didn’t know that Luke and Leia were siblings until the early 2000's. 

Fwiw, Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage is light years better than Kramer vs. Kramer. The former is a moving, humane, complicated work of art; the latter is a misogynist screed that is way too eager to be a water cooler conversation. I’ll be pleasantly surprised if this remake is anywhere near as good as Bergman’s…

Q. What’s the difference between a banjo and a trampoline?

Campbell University is a Baptist school—so, much dumber than the Catholics, but not so many sex crimes.

There’s no way his character and Shiv Roy don’t fuck.

Certainly it seems paper-thin in comparison to the great HBO shows of the previous decade. And, honestly, that’s fine—great spectacle is its own kind of great art. But you’re right that people made claims for its depth that the show couldn’t sustain.

I second that—certainly anyone who liked “Saved” would probably enjoy “Yes God Yes” as well.

That first paragraph is really weird, inasmuch as it gives “racism, fear, and intimidation” equal billing with some Youtube celebrity who felt they were not given the respect due to a Youtuber of their considerable eminence.

“Let’s reflect on how everything the anti-woke brigade says now was already said by galactic piece of shit Camille Paglia back in the 90's” could be a really interesting article. “Let’s reflect on how a bunch of shit said by Camille Paglia, who was born in 1947, proves that Gen X was anti-PC” is one of the weirdest…

The good video shops were absolutely curated cinema, though admittedly, the good ones were few and far between—you pretty much had to be in a big city or a college town to find them.

You gotta think there’s two or three of them who can only get a hard-on if they get tasered in the balls.

Here’s the article from which the quote was pulled. I’d argue that the writer pretty profoundly misses what I take to be the point of the book:

Episode 9 is worse. The other two are quite a bit better.

It does make me wonder if there’s not an element of classism here—students at a fancy East Coast private school balking at the idea of working under a professor at a public school in flyover country.

Honestly, hypothetical 1996 after a second Bush term is a pretty shitty list of Democratic options. The candidates from 1992 who made some waves in the primaries but didn’t win were Paul Tsongas and Jerry Brown; looking ahead to 2000 you’ve got Gore of course (though maybe he doesn’t run after being half of a losing…

The cop who wrote on his own cup was in Herington, KS—a small town in Kansas—not Kansas City. Fwiw, I’ve got a qualm or two about the KC police chief, but at least he’s not some Mayberry dipshit.