Larry Charles actually did write a script about Elaine buying a gun, which was rejected for being too dark even for this show. Which really makes me wonder just what the hell is in there (for full context, he’s been a regular collaborator on all of Sasha Baron Cohen’s films since the show ended).

Man, when the actual chorus music starts to hit at the end...

Reichardt is quite skilled at making bland cinema, dare one say?

Question for the AV Club staff: when did the site’s house style officially change to “be so smug and snarky that whatever credible point might be buried in the article is invalidated”?

nah just a white girl overestimating the ebonics of the title

If Kyle Mooney HAS to do that “awkward guy” persona in every single sketch, this was one of his better ones. The only one of his I really liked was the one where he pretended to be a body builder. That was funny. Usually his awkward guy stuff makes me cringe, because he’s not awkward, really. He’s been on SNL for like…

I just love that he did an impression of a non-Asian person. I’m separate from the usual woke people in this regard, but I think that in sketch comedy, you don’t need to have people being played by the same race as the target. It’s not “blackface” to have Darell Hammond play Jesse Jackson or Jimmy Fallon play Chris…

i haven’t watched this episode yet but i love love love jason!

Similarly getting stomach pains from McDonalds is like being called a racist on Twitter. It’s upsetting but it happens to everyone.

The weird part I always confuse the two.

You know who really cares about copyright law?

People who write something worth copying ;)

I think it’s referred to s the paradox of inclusion. People who preach inclusion are wiling to extend inclusion to everyone who agrees with them, and none else.

And yet...he doesn’t treat them kindly. That’s why they didn’t print the lie he said as their headline.

Very old British white guy who used to black it up in his movies has terrible opinions, is even less so.

The topic is transitioning away from trans persons per se and it is moving on to the wider topic of ‘activist bullying’ which has become so abusive that its becoming counterproductive to their respective causes. This Barstani article in particular is an example.

Yeah, that’s a good way of putting it: Netflix has replaced some of the mid-level-studio-movie infrastructure, even though their versions tend to be a little chintzier (to my eyes) than your average mid-budget studio movie of a decade ago. So when someone isn’t in Director Jail but also isn’t the hot new thing, that’s…

This is sort of how things go now. It takes SO much more to vault someone up to that level, and it’s so much harder to stay there, because directors are treated as more or less interchangeable. Think about Star Wars guys, even: J.J. Abrams directed one of the biggest movies of all time, and followed it up with...…

I would also contend that Saving Private Ryan is not an anti-war movie. Its stance is more like: this is war. This is the ugly mess that it is. But to be against this means letting the Nazis take over.

I told Woody you said this, and he's disappointed to lose the support of someone who named their account after the work of art that is Scandal.

But the writer didn't explain how this is really the patriarchy's fault.