As a Nashville native, all I want to talk about is the rumors for YEARS that her and Vince Gill were having an affair. Which were totally proved true in my circles by their getting married. FOR SHAME!

I think this of Andrea Yates as well. She was sentenced to life in prison- perhaps deservedly so, having killed her five children-but her husband, who despite the fact that she had post partum psychosis, and her doctor had advised against having more pregnancies due to the severity of her symptoms, insisted on having…

The Amazon documentary (which I will never stop recommending despite being on Amazon) was both horrifying for realizing just how poorly the story was reported (I was a tween when it hit the news), but also a tiny bit gratifying because WOW, the filmmakers sure gave him enough rope to hang himself and she seems to…

He got a short adult film career

I recommend the amazing Amazon doc on Lorena from a few years ago. It has its warts, like everything on Amazon’s originals slate, but JimBob (which is that asshole’s actual name) gets a close reexamination. Lorena gets seen much more clearly here.

Anybody who can characterize Amy Fisher as “a Lolita” obviously never read Lolita.

I highly HIGHLY recommend the recent short series The Lolita Podcast by Jamie Loftus. It’s only a few episodes long and is a great analysis of the history of Nabokov’s book and its cultural impact, and the character of Dolores herself, and the way she’s been often misappropriated and misinterpreted. 

Reading this take on Amy Fisher made me think about the story of Lorena Bobbitt and how she was demonized by the tabloid press while they gave John Wayne Bobbitt a pass. He got a short adult film career and notoriety out of it. What did Lorena get? Why, a barrage of name-calling and accusations that she “hurt her…

First - This is one of the best pieces I’ve read on Jez in a long while. Content like this is what keeps me coming back. Thank you.

“We’re not going to talk about Donald Trump anymore, and heres’ 5 full paragraphs why!”

“Thank you for letting us profit off the continued antics of a fascist, we really didn’t want to do that”

We are all excited to see the AV Club transition your Presidential coverage to carrying Biden’s water. It’s a great time be be alive...

not because we ever really wanted to,

You could have made this decision at any point in the past four years. You didn’t. Now it’s moot. There’s no point in announcing a lack of coverage of something when there’s no coverage to be had.

I am going to gloat so hard when we get a Trump headline within the next (to be generous) two weeks. Not in like a triumphant way, more in a sad, “my only power exists in these comments” way.

Unrelated note: AV Club now has resources to devote to episode reviews of The Batchelor - since that, like President Trump, simply wasn’t covered enough - but not the shows the AVC faithful actually....watch.

Weird that this is where your mind is first going to. For me, I’ve met men who have regularly used BDSM as a guise for their abusive tendencies and considering Armie Hammer’s influenza, it’s not that farfetched it’s true.

It is terrible that she went through that. Older wealthy men grooming people with less power than them continues to be a massive problem. Allegedly almost all of the text chains are real and he is banned from nearly every massage parlor and blackballed with many other sex workers in LA county.

Here are some jobs I’ve had in the past: