And at least Jim is managing to reinvent himself as an actually pretty good visual artist. Depp at this point contributes nothing to Western Civilization at this point.

Chris, I love your writing and think you are incredibly insightful, but Doc is not a “proven” head coach unless you mean, “proven to be incredibly overrated and is lucky to have won a championship once.”

Maybe consider retitleing the article “20 of the Worst Films of 2017"

Forever this.

Because deep down, they know. They know that Obama is smarter, kinder, and most painfully, much more popular and better liked than any of them will ever be. They also know that he looks even better than he ever actually was when compared to them.

Serious question:

How shitty is your life when you find yourself posing for photos with Ted Cruz?

Clearly you didn’t actually see The Mummy.

So AV Club like Transformers: Last Knight; and The Mummy?

It’s amazing how Rian Johnson basically destroyed all mystery boxes from The Force Awakens.

Leonard Pierce will be taking over the column for future installments.

Does “close this column” mean next month is the last entry ever? I hope not!

The writing problems for Game of Thrones aren’t limited to the dialogue. The older seasons wouldn’t have had something like Euron’s fleet that magically appears wherever the writers need it, but is completely absent when Dany decides to show up. Jon’s plan to kidnap a wight certainly showed off the show’s production…

This list is obviously well thought out and hard work was put into it, but comments are for quibbles so I’m going to quibble away.

It’s been a great year for TV. Legion was a show that absolutely blew away every preconceived notion I ever had about the X-men franchise and comic book shows in general. I genuinely fear for a joyfully batshit insane show like Legion when Disney inevitably gobbles up Fox.

Master of None and Insecure are the two biggest snubs for me on the final list. Though there’s so much good TV out there that it’s hard to get too upset. I agree that You’re the Worst and Silicon Valley dropped off a bit from the highs of previous seasons, but I still enjoyed them both quite a bit. You’re the Worst is…

Not to mention his refusal to obey the law WHEN HE WAS WORKING AS A JUDGE. Is that not enough to disqualify someone from public service?

I liked the spelling bee sketch too, but thing about the construction of it really bothered me. The structure meant that there were basically two joke hooks per word: “use it in a sentence” and “definition”. But they did the same joke for both hooks. It was so conspicuously lazy it genuinely distracted me from the…

try Lunesta.

There’s no way last weeks episode was better than this weeks. No way. Not even close. It was strange. I remembered what it was like to actually laugh at an SNL skit. Franco sold the hell out of the Za and Spelling Bee sketch. “Little Pig Boy” is the funniest thing they’ve done in ages. Gretchen sketch was good too.