Sometimes the replacement singer makes the band MORE famous, Anthrax and Iron Maiden spring to mind. I’ll have to listen to Carlile’s covers before I can decide how good an idea this is, but Chris Cornell was definitely the song engine of that band. (Yes, the other members wrote a bit on many of the albums, but Kim et…

That does make a kind of sense, as the overall aesthetic of Stargirl seems to be much more nostalgic than up-to-the-minute, what with the classic cars and kids who hang out at clubhouses and local diners rather than on Instagram.

Not since the infamous “pills in Tracy’s jelly beans” incident has an A.V. Club reviewer taken such a pounding from a commentariat who was watching more closely than they were.  You hate to see it.

Nick Tarabay is always a delight. I also loved his appearance in The Expanse:

Yeah, shades of the new Green Lantern destroying the lantern earlier this season. I’m not sure if it there’s a point being made or if the writers just hate “power props,” but there’s been a noticeable trend of super-powered objects getting taken out of play on this show. Mike managed to wish his magic wishing pen away…

I thought the “wow it’s cold for July” bit was another rather clever way of turning Covid-shooting liabilities into story-supporting assets. How do you get around explaining why a large high school cafeteria only has about 9 students in it during the day? Well, easy: it’s summer school! And since this season was shot…

I was one of those who didn’t recognize Bruce Campbell’s voice during the episode, and therefore feel reeeaal dumb when I look at the still at the top of the article. All I thought was that McGinley looked like yet another possible-Archer’s-dad, which, yeah, he totally does.

The Hank Pym of the MCU is considerably more stable than the one from Marvel Comics, to be fair. In comics continuity it was Pym who created Ultron, developed a split personality and became Yellowjacket, and double-crossed the Avengers several times in the name of his own personal code of ethics. The Hank Pym played…

Literally the only issue of the Hawkeye comic I’ve ever bought was the Pizza Dog spotlight issue. (And I found out about it through the A.V. Club’s comics coverage, to boot.) No regrets!

If the entire show to date had existed just to set up Lucifer saying “This is the voice of God” while Replacement Dan is trying to interrogate a suspect, it would still have been worth it.

When he dismisses the possibility by saying “We’ve all seen that movie,” in the back of my mind I wondered if he might’ve been talking about Link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_(film)), which has been stuck in a dark corner of my head for decades. (I saw the trailer in front of something I watched on VHS forever…

I tried to get into this show during S2 because I’d heard about the stellar voice cast and I respect Conan O’Brien’s endorsement, but things had already gotten unexpectedly serialized for the sci-fi comedy I thought I was tuning in for. I gave up after the third episode where I couldn’t figure out what was happening…

That went down hard, especially because the writers had a 2-season renewal in their hands at the close of S3 and were breaking out the story with that understanding, and then SyFy chopped off the back half of the order and left them with half as much runtime to tell the same story. As a result, S4 rushes us through…

I’m sure you’re right, I’m just saying that Ted almost certainly knows more about MLB than e.g. me, so despite Myles asserting that “we” can tell when a baseball field is different but not so much a soccer pitch (I sure can’t! I see them both primarily on television) it seems a little unlikely that Ted, who has a long…

Soccer pitches being different sizes isn’t that unusual in sports; while the NFL, NBA, and NHL all mandate the dimensions in the rules, MLB fields are different sizes too. In fact, no two MLB outfields are alike!

Because it’s a prequel! Are these some sort of magical, time-traveling cars?!

...I’ll show myself out.

It is a petty complaint, but I really hate the blonde streaks in Cindy’s hair and wish she’d try another color. They are hella distracting.

This was the first one that hasn’t really worked for me at all. Maybe I’m just old and no fun, but at this point I am utterly bored with “Zombies!” in the first place, and in the second place, I am starting to feel like there are too many people out there who are itching to kill people that they know they shouldn’t…

Those are the basics, but for the full effect, you should also choose at least one phrase in every page of dialogue to emPHAsize unusuallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

I hereby agree with everything said about Jessica Walter’s performance, but I’m not sure if I buy that Malory was a “scourge on the powerful” all along. The closest thing she seems to have as an ethos is desiring and enjoying wealth and status, and she has frequently fawned over people with more than she has — a…