Megan Amram being the showrunner on this is literally the only interesting thing about it. 

I think what I really appreciated about this show when I binged it a couple months back is how nuanced a character Kendall is. Based on The Discourse, I kind of thought Kendall was just going to be an easy satire of a dumb, privileged rich kid playing at business, and I like how that’s not really the case. He’s not…

As much as I respected the craft of that movie, Ansel Elgort and Lily James are such a massive black hole of charisma and charm at the center of it that the whole enterprise really leaves me cold.

The fascinating thing about watching Macdonald is that he was one of the few comedians I can recall who never seemed to care about making the audience laugh. There’s the old saw about comedians having a pathological need to make people laugh, but Macdonald always seemed like he was trying to make himself laugh, and…

I think with guys like Butler there’s a tendency to kind of typecast them as big, brooding, good-looking action dude bricks because it’s the easiest thing to do, when they can maybe do a little bit more if someone would just let them have fun. Hemsworth initially got shoved into that file, but thankfully he’s escaped…

while awaiting judgement for something he did in the field. (This something won’t be revealed until the climax, but if you were paying attention in 2020—or, you know, any time throughout the history of policing—you can probably ballpark its nature.)

I won’t pretend to be incredibly excited about a standalone Hawkeye show, but I’m in for Hailee Steinfeld and what I assume will be Florence Pugh’s roaring rampage of revenge. 

Renner has never been a particularly impressive actor, but that speech in Age of Ultron you mentioned (“The city is flying and we’re fighting an army of robots. And I have a bow and arrow.”) and his little soliloquy about wanting to kill Pietro were definitely highlights for him. 

“Apartments on TV would cost more in real life” is the lowest form of cultural criticism. 

I was going to say that the image of Jon Bernthal in a sharp suit with gelled hair is some real uncanny valley stuff, but “intense lobbyist for the NRA who is about to go on a shooting spree” brings it right back around again. 

The irony, of course, is that the point of The Sopranos (well, part of the point, anyway) is showing in a very clear way that none of these guys are worthy of admiration. Hell, none of them are even particularly interesting. It’s not just that they’re brutal criminals — they’re not stylish, they’re not charming,…

I mean, my full name is Andrew DoomTribune SunEradicator, but eventually you hit the character limit. 

It is kind of interesting how the NY Times review played such a big part in the overall Guy Fierenaissance. However great a guy, um, Guy might be, that doesn’t really bear on the quality of the restaurant. He opened a restaurant and charged people to eat there — it’s OK to criticize the place, even harshly, if it’s…

We have another dude named Andrew running around The AV Club posting deranged screeds about Rian Johnson, so maybe I can seize back the mantle of why people think Andrew is weird. 

I’m scheduled to give a talk entitled “I Actually Liked The Final Season.” It’s scheduled for 3 am the morning after the convention has ended and organizers have warned me they refuse to guarantee my safety.

The whole “emotionally closed off badass assassin” shtick also feels like a waste of Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Karen Gillan, who are both really awesome and aren’t well served by intentionally draining away their energy for 80 percent of the movie.

This feels like the perfect Andy Dick story, in that Lovitz said something harsh, felt bad, apologized and then a few years later Andy Dick went and said something breathtakingly stupid and cruel to unnecessarily start the whole thing up again.

Yeah, it’s rare that I get to literally snicker, but it’s fun when I do. 

It’s genuinely hilarious how much drama these people have unnecessarily created as part of their effort to find someone to host a game show.

Wasn’t there supposed to be a sequel a few years back? They were going to have a black woman as the hero, I think. Am I just imagining old Newswires at this point?